Can berberine help you lose weight?

As people's quality of life improves, the phenomenon of obesity is becoming more and more serious. Obesity not only affects one's own image, but also brings many disease symptoms. Therefore, losing weight has become a goal for many people, but losing weight is not simple. For example, fitness to lose weight requires a lot of willpower, and dieting to lose weight also requires constant persistence. Therefore, many people have set their sights on losing weight with drugs. So, can berberine help you lose weight?

First, can berberine help lose weight? Berberine hydrochloride, also known as berberine, is a well-known antidiarrheal drug. It is an active ingredient extracted from the traditional Chinese medicine Coptis chinensis, Phellodendron chinense or Scutellaria baicalensis. It is often used to treat infectious diarrhea such as bacterial gastroenteritis and bacterial dysentery. However, in recent years, berberine hydrochloride has been sought after by more and more young women. It turns out that these women believe that berberine hydrochloride has the function of weight loss, and take berberine hydrochloride as a weight loss drug for a long time.

Second, obesity is a chronic metabolic disease caused by multiple factors. With the improvement of living standards and the quickening pace of life, the variety of food is becoming more and more diverse, and all kinds of delicious food are often presented to us. When something happy happens, people have a big meal to celebrate; after working overtime, colleagues get together for a big meal. “Eating a big meal” seems to have become a common lifestyle, which is also the main cause of obesity, or what we commonly call “overnutrition.”

Can berberine help you lose weight? In addition, the disorder of intestinal flora structure is also one of the causes of obesity, which we call "bacterial obesity." In the human body, the intestinal flora is a very complex ecosystem. They use the food residues digested by the human body and the gastrointestinal tract as the conditions and environment for survival, and play important pathophysiological roles in the body, including regulating energy intake, producing important metabolites, nourishing the intestinal epithelium, participating in inflammatory responses and regulating immune functions. Studies have found that Enterobacter cloacae is an intestinal bacterium that can cause obesity and metabolic disorders. Berberine hydrochloride can be used for bacterial obesity. When berberine hydrochloride acts on the intestines, it may improve the structure of intestinal flora, reduce the entry of endotoxins into the blood, alleviate chronic inflammation, and achieve the purpose of weight loss by regulating the energy balance in the body.