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Intestinal Motility
Things To Know & Note
Also Known As
Transit time
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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
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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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Outcome |
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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Strong
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Very High See all 10 studies |
Senna Alexandria is a reference drug for its laxative effects, with comparable efficacy to oral polyethylene glycol (PEG; used before colonoscopies) and lactulose, but more cost-effective than the latter
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Notable
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- See study |
The one study to assess intestinal motility (speed of food transit from stomach to anus) has noted a near halving of time, suggesting that yacon increases intestinal motility.
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Minor
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- See study |
May increase intestinal motility
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