Vaccine Augmentation Research Analysis

Summary of Vaccine Augmentation

Scientific Information on Vaccine Augmentation

The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect vaccine augmentation

Grade	Level of Evidence [show legend]
	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

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.	Consistency of research results ? Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.	Notes
Colostrum	Minor	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.
Panax ginseng	Minor	- See study	Has been noted to increase the antibody response to vaccinations when taken prior
Vitamin E	Minor	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.
Chlorella

All comparative evidence is now gathered in our A-to-Z Supplement Reference.

The evidence for each separate supplement is still freely available here.