Diarrhea
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Summary of Diarrhea
Scientific Information on Diarrhea
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Human Effect Matrix
The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect diarrhea.
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Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials |
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Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled |
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Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies |
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Uncontrolled or observational studies only |
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Level of Evidence
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The amount of high quality evidence. The more
evidence, the more we can trust the results.
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Magnitude of effect
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The direction and size of the supplement's impact on
each outcome. Some supplements can have an increasing effect, others have a decreasing effect, and others have no effect.
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Consistency of research results
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Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or
VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.
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Notable
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High See all 8 studies |
Diarrhea can be potently reduced with colostrum under two conditions, either it is being used in persons with HIV-induced diarrhea from cryptosporidium parvum or when using colostrum (from cows immunized to E.coli) in response to food carrying E.coli (usually seen with traveler's diarrhea); despite being highly effective in those two scenarios it seems ineffective in other cases of diarrhea.
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Notable
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High See all 3 studies |
Both lactase supplementation during mealtimes and lactase pretreated milk seemed to notably reduce instances of diarrhea. It's unclear which is more effective.
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