{"id":1309,"date":"2025-11-21T07:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:24:48","slug":"astragalus-polysaccharides-a-multi-targeted-approach-to-obesity-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/astragalus-polysaccharides-a-multi-targeted-approach-to-obesity-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Astragalus Polysaccharides: A Multi-Targeted Approach to Obesity Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Astragalus polysaccharides (APS), a major bioactive component of Astragalus, exert promising anti-obesity effects through multiple mechanisms involving various organs and pathways. APS helps alleviate obesity-related inflammation by suppressing the TLR4\/NF-\u03baB signaling pathway and lowering pro-inflammatory cytokines, while also improving insulin sensitivity and regulating glucose metabolism. It reduces hepatic fat accumulation, thereby protecting against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and plays a vital role in restoring gut microbiota balance by enriching beneficial bacteria, enhancing short-chain fatty acid production, and strengthening intestinal barrier function, which collectively reduce endotoxin-induced inflammation and metabolic disturbances. With its multi-targeted actions and low toxicity, APS is considered a safer natural alternative for treating obesity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0141813025045362\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0141813025045362<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astragalus polysaccharides (APS), a major bioactive component of Astragalus, exert promising anti-obesity effects through multiple mechanisms involving various organs and pathways. APS helps alleviate obesity-related inflammation by suppressing the TLR4\/NF-\u03baB signaling pathway and lowering pro-inflammatory cytokines, while also improving insulin sensitivity and regulating glucose metabolism. It reduces hepatic fat accumulation, thereby protecting against non-alcoholic fatty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}