Research Article

Metabolomics of Personalized Body Elements in Thai Traditional Medicine Response to Herbal Medicine for Body Elements Balancing in Healthy Volunteers

Figure 5

Piperidine alkaloids from Piper retrofractum Vahl. protect against high-fat diet-induced obesity by regulating lipid metabolism and activating AMP-activated protein kinase in mice [16], explaining the lipid-lowering mechanism of BKF in the volunteers.