Herbal Ginger, the Potential Anti Hyperlipidemia Functional Remedy, Researchers Find

By Kyle J. Norton


Hyperlipidemia is abnormally high levels of cholesterol in the bloodstream. The syndrome is a member of the cluster conditions of metabolic syndrome, a leading cause of cardiovascular disease.

Cholesterol, a waxy substance produced either by the liver or food intake plays a critical role in the production of vitamin D, steroid hormones and the building of the cell walls.

Overexpression cholesterol is a medical condition which causes plaque accumulated on the arterial wall, leading to narrowing the arteries in transport the oxygenated blood to the parts of the body.

In severe cases, it can cause blood flow blockage, leading to chronic ailments depending on the location of the blood clot.

There are 2 types of blood cholesterol, the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) which carries the aforementioned functions and the high-density cholesterol (HDL) which carries cholesterol from the blood back to the liver for the future re-use.

The healthy ratio of total blood cholesterol is less than 4 LDL/ 1 HDL.

Most people diagnosed with high blood cholesterol substantially higher total cholesterol ratio.

Some researchers suggested that the widespread high blood cholesterol in North America is associated with the promotion of the Western diet over the past few decades.

Dr. Kamilah Ali, the lead scientist in the assessment of the Western diet risk of high blood cholesterol in an animal model, wrote, "mice on a C57BL/6 background after receiving a high fat-high cholesterol diet for 12 weeks. ApoD−/− mice had higher HDL-cholesterol levels (61±13-apoD−/− vs. 52±10-WT-males; 37±11-apoD−/− vs. 22±2 WT-female) than WT mice with sex-specific changes in total plasma levels of cholesterol and other lipids".

And, "Compared to WT, the HDL of apoD−/− mice showed an increase in large, lipid-rich HDL particles and according to size various quantities and sizes of LDL particles".

The results suggested that long-term users of the Western diet may be associated with the risk of hyperlipidemia.

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) or ginger root, the second superfood used for thousands of years by mankind, is the genus Zingiber, belonging to the family Zingiberaceae, native to Tamil.


The root has been used in traditional and Chinese medicine for the trerament dyspepsia, gastroparesis, constipation, edema, difficult urination, colic, etc.


Researchers on finding a natural compound for the treatment of hyperlipidemia investigated the effect of ginger extracts on alcohol-induced hyperlipidemia and associated myocardial damage.

The study included 24 Wistar male albino rats (250 ± 20 g) divided into four groups including, normal control (NC) (0.9% NaCl), ginger treated (Gt) (200 mg/Kg b.w.), alcohol-treated (At) (20% of 6g/kg b.w. alcohol), and alcohol along with Ginger treatment (At+Gt).

Before ginger administration, alcohol-induced myocardial damage rats showed an increased lipid profile except for high-density lipoprotein compared with control.

Ginger treatment significantly inhibited the alcohol-induced lipid profiles caused by the injection of alcohol except for high-density lipoproteins.

Furthermore, ginger treatment also inhibited the elevated cardiac biomarkers activity with alcohol intoxication. In other words, ginger treatment for 7-weeks significantly minimized the alcohol-induced myocardial damage.

Dr. Subbaiah GV, the lead scientist said, "ginger could protect alcohol-induced myocardial damage by suppression of hyperlipidemia and cardiac biomarkers".

In order to reveal more information about ginger anti hypolipidemic effects, researchers examined the hypolipidemic effects of a hydroethanolic ginger extract (GE) in the liver of rats fed a high-fat diet (HFD).

The study included male Wistar rats divided into the following 3 groups: (i) Rats fed a standard diet (3.5% fat), the control group; (ii) rats fed an HFD (33.5% fat); and (iii) rats fed an HFD treated with GE (250 mg·kg-1·day-1) for 5 weeks (HFD+GE).

GE improved lipid profile and attenuated the increase of plasma levels of glucose, insulin, and leptin in HFD rats.

In the depth analysis, researchers found that ginger antihyperlipidemic activity was attributed to the induction of a higher liver expression of proteins associated with a variety of metabolic processes including lipid and enhanced levels of adiponectin which plays a critical role in preventing dyslipidemia.

Taken altogether, ginger may be considered a functional remedy for the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia with no side effects, pending to the confirmation of large sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.

References
(1) Ginger Treatment Ameliorates Alcohol-induced Myocardial Damage by Suppression of Hyperlipidemia and Cardiac Biomarkers in Rats by Subbaiah GV1, Mallikarjuna K2, Shanmugam B1, Ravi S1, Taj PU1, Reddy KS1. (PubMed)
(2) Molecular factors involved in the hypolipidemic- and insulin-sensitizing effects of a ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) extract in rats fed a high-fat diet by de Las Heras N1, Valero-Muñoz M1, Martín-Fernández B1, Ballesteros S1, López-Farré A2, Ruiz-Roso B3, Lahera V1. (PubMed)
(3) A Western-Fed Diet Increases Plasma HDL and LDL-Cholesterol Levels in ApoD–/– Mice by Kamilah Ali, Ehab M. Abo-Ali, M. D. Kabir, 1 Bethany Riggins, 1 Susanna Nguy, 1Lisa Li, 1 Ujala Srivastava, 1 and Su Mya Mya Thinn. (PMC)