Does black garlic cure obesity? The scientific evidence and limit.

Eat black garlic and burn more!

Good news if you want to keep your body shape.
I found the research that black garlic helps to lose your weight.

fatty rats which eat black garlic extract before the exercise lose more weight.
*Eating black garlic without exercise doesn’t always help to lose the weight though.

If you want to burn energy even more, how about eating one piece of black garlic before going gym?

Summary of the thesis

The graph is comparison among these 5 different groups.

-ND (Normal Diet) *standard group
-HFD (High Fat Diet)
-HFDA (High Fat Diet and Aged Garlic)
-HFDE (High Fat Diet and Exercise)
-HFDAE (High Fat Diet, Aged Garlic and Exercise)

Seeing the result of (A) and (B), the paragraph of body weight and visceral fat (fat of organs) are significantly reduced.

This research indicates that black garlic help to burn more fat if it’s combined with exercise.
Only eating black garlic is effective somehow, but not as effective.

The research also shows that aged garlic improve the insulin level.

The mechanism to burn more fats

The mechanism why black garlic improve obesity is not clearly explained.
However it’s thought that it’s related to the increase of skeletal muscle FNDC-5 and serum irisin.

The skeletal muscle is muscle close to bones.
It helps the movement of bones.
It means black garlic and exercise improve the muscle of main part of body, then helps to burn more fat.