Vaccine Augmentation
Summary of Vaccine Augmentation
Primary Information, Benefits, Effects, and Important Facts
Scientific Information on Vaccine Augmentation
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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 vaccine augmentation
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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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Minor
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Moderate See 2 studies |
Tenuous evidence for an increase in vaccine efficacy, as while the one study assessing antibody titres failed to find any influence (suggesting no benefit) there does appear to be a reliable increase in the secretion of IgA and IgG in response to the vaccine.
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Minor
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Has been noted to increase the antibody response to vaccinations when taken prior
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Minor
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Very High See 2 studies |
There appears to be an increased antibody response to vaccinations in otherwise healthy persons who supplement with a low dose of vitamin E relative to those receiving placebo with their vaccination; this applies to both youth and the elderly.
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