Liver Fat
Research analysis led by Kamal Patel.
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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 liver fat
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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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Notable
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- See study |
The decrease in liver fat seen with fucoxanthin tends to be greater than that seen with other supplements, although insufficient evidence exists to suggest reliability of results
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Minor
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- See study |
A possible decreasing effect of liver fat seen in persons with NAFLD
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Minor
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Very High See all 3 studies |
Preliminary evidence showed a major decrease in liver fat (normalization in over half of persons with fatty liver) but currently the best evidence suggests that this does not occur as potently; there may still be a role, but this requires more research.
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