Can onions help with weight loss, cholesterol and PCOS?

Let’s talk about treating weight loss, cholesterol, and PCOS with diet. What can an eighth of a teaspoon of onion powder a day do for body fat, and what can raw red onions do for cholesterol?

In one of my previous onion videos, I talked about the data that supports—or doesn’t support—the role of onions in boosting testosterone in men, protecting bone health, controlling allergies, and dealing with the side effects of chemotherapy. What about losing weight? He enters “Effect of consumption of steamed onions (ONIRO) on body fat and metabolic profiles in overweight subjects.” The researchers used steamed onions, which are not as spicy and have a weaker smell, so they could better disguise it as a placebo. They dried them into onion powder and gave people a tiny amount, about one-eighth of a teaspoon (300 mg) per day. A little onion powder a day certainly won’t affect people’s weight. But check out the results mentioned in the summary: Measurements using a DEXA scan showed a significant reduction in body fat mass, and a CT scan revealed a significant reduction in whole, visceral, and subcutaneous fat areas.

He clings. If a little onion powder is so effective for weight loss, why isn’t it mentioned in my book How not to diet? Because, as often happens in studies, the spin in the summary does not accurately represent the actual data. DEXA scan results did not measure any significant change in lipids in the group that received the placebo capsules. They only seemed to lose about a tablespoon (7 g) of fat, while the group that unknowingly ingested an eighth of a teaspoon of onion powder stuffed into capsules lost nearly a pound and a half (0.64 kg) of body fat — a significant reduction from baseline, but not a statistically significant reduction compared to the placebo group, meaning the loss could only be due to chance. Same with the CT scan results: five times more loss of total fat and more than 30 times more loss of dangerous visceral fat, but the results did not reach statistical significance compared to placebo.

More recent study Try Four teaspoons (9 g) of onion powder per day similarly failed to accelerate visceral, total, or subcutaneous fat loss compared to placebo, but the placebo was also four teaspoons (9 g) of onion powder per day. They used yellow onions versus white onions, and both seemed to cause a loss of belly body fat, without much difference between them. Either way, you might look at these two studies and think, sure, but what are the downsides? It’s just an eighth of a teaspoon of onion powder per day, so why not try it? It can’t be painful, but we don’t have enough evidence to be confident that it will actually help.

Let’s talk about polycystic ovary syndrome, also known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). It is one of the most common hormonal disorders. Affect 5% to 10% in women of reproductive age. In addition to causing symptoms such as irregular menstruation, PCOS is a pre-diabetic condition, with decreased insulin sensitivity. Treating PCOS is difficult due to side effects of medications. So, are there dietary options? How about a randomized controlled clinical trial of eating raw red onions?

Why onions? Well, it’s clear that onion extracts can improve blood sugar and insulin sensitivity in diabetic mice, and more importantly, they have been found to reduce blood sugar levels in humans with diabetes, but obviously not in non-diabetic humans. People with PCOS are pre-diabetic, is this right for them? First, let’s look at these two other studies. to He studies Metabolic Effects of Onions and Green Beans Diabetics spent a week eating a small onion (60 grams) every day or the same diet with about six cups (600 grams) of green beans instead — and both approaches worked. Onions reduced subjects’ blood sugar levels by about 10% compared to a diet without onions, while green beans reduced them by about 15% compared to the control diet.

Here’s the study that’s supposed to be He appears No blood sugar benefits for people who do not have diabetes. It’s true, onions don’t seem to lower natural blood sugar levels, which is a good thing, but check out what happens when you feed people sugar. Have people consume about two and a half tablespoons (50 g) of corn syrup, and have their blood sugar levels rise for the next two hours before the body can lower them again. But give people the exact same amount of sugar with more and more onion extract, and their blood sugar spikes decrease dramatically, almost as if you had instead given them an antidiabetic drug, as you can see below and at 4:00 in my video. Onions have been tested for weight loss, cholesterol, and treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome.

we See The same inhibitory effect on blood sugar when people get a dose of adrenaline and eat onion extract, compared to receiving adrenaline without the onion extract, as you can see below and at 4:11 in my channel video.

So, are there blood sugar benefits for both people with and without diabetes? There was no difference Found in blood sugar levels or other markers of insulin resistance between the high and low onion groups of PCOS patients, and neither He was There were no differences in the inflammatory marker between the two groups. But women with PCOS are not only more susceptible to diabetes and infections, they are also We are They are also more susceptible to high cholesterol.

Women with PCOS are seven times more likely to have a heart attack and develop heart disease, which is the number one killer of women. But consuming raw red onions seemed to be effective at lowering cholesterol, although the group that ate more onions had their bad LDL cholesterol reduced by about 5 points (5 mg/dL), which was not significantly different from the group that ate fewer onions.

I found this study 50 years ago where researchers feeding People ate nearly a full stick (100 grams) of butter, and their cholesterol rose by about 30 points within hours of consumption but by only 9 points, or 3 points when combined with about a third of a cup (50 grams) of raw or boiled onions. Moral of the story: Don’t eat a stick of butter.

Doctor’s note

Watch the previous video I mentioned: Friday Favorites: Are Onions Good for Testosterone, Osteoporosis, Allergies and Cancer?.