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Lepidium meyeniiFinding

Lepidium meyenii has no detected effect on body mass index

no difference foundModerate evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“The 12-week treatment with spray-dried red maca extract did not have any significant impact on BMI (p = 0.56 compared to placebo); neither did the black maca extract (p = 0.1 compared to placebo).”
Quoted verbatim from Acceptability, Safety, and Efficacy of Oral Administration of Extracts of Black or Red Maca (Lepidium meyenii) in Adult Human Subjects: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study.
This finding among the 83 findings on its endpoint

Lepidium meyenii

Body mass index

no difference found

Who
Healthy adults aged 18-65, men and women, living at low altitude (Lima) and high altitude (Cerro de Pasco), Peru; black maca arm versus maltodextrin placebo
Dose studied
3 g/day in a sachet, 12 weeks

Moderate evidencePMID 27548190 · 2016

02 · The study

Study
RCT
Duration
3 months

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderatethis finding
  • limited
  • very limited
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)
What else it reported2 findings · 0 compounds · 2 endpoints

04 · To cite this finding

This address does not change

https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M701Y3XYC2FH4Y4KSG7QNPCE