Things to Know
Also Known As
Transit time
Intestinal Motility
Intestinal motility refers to the speed of which food particulate passes through the intesines, with an increase in motility causing faster evacuation and a prolonged motility time being the opposite.
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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 intestinal motility
| Grade | Level of Evidence |
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| Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials | |
| Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled | |
| Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies | |
| Uncontrolled or observational studies only |
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Level of Evidence ?
The amount of high quality evidence. The more evidence, the more we can trust the results.
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Outcome |
Magnitude of effect ?
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 ?
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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| Senna alexandrina |
All comparative evidence is now gathered in our A-to-Z Supplement Reference. The evidence for each separate supplement is still freely available here. |
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| Yacon | ||||
| Curcumin | ||||
| Psyllium | ||||
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"Intestinal Motility," Examine.com, published on 5 July 2013, last updated on 29 April 2017, http://examine.com/topics/intestinal-motility/