Incontinence
Summary of Incontinence
Primary Information, Benefits, Effects, and Important Facts
Scientific Information on Incontinence
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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 incontinence.
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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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Supplement |
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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Notes |
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Minor
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- See study |
In a secondary data analysis on subjects with multiple sclerosis, it seems the side effect of incontinence may be reduced with marijuana usage.
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Minor
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Very High See all 3 studies |
There appears to be mild benefit in stress incident female incontinence with thrice daily dosing of octopamine between 15-30mg, with up to a quarter of subjects reporting full continence from supplementation.
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