Processing Speed
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Summary of Processing Speed
Scientific Information on Processing Speed
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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 processing speed.
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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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Minor
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- See study |
Study was unable to properly assess coconut oil as it was used as an active control; some benefit appears apparent relative to fish oil.
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Minor
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Moderate See 2 studies |
In older individuals, there appears to be an increase in processing speed without a sacrifice in accuracy
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Minor
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A decrease in processing speed appears to occur following lemon balm ingestion, which may be related to the sedation effects
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