VO2 Max
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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 vo2 max
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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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Minor
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Low See all 6 studies |
Improvements in VO2 max are not wholly reliable, and appear to be low in magnitude.
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- | Moderate See all 5 studies |
Effects on VO2 max are highly unreliable and not currently thought significant.
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- | Very High See all 6 studies |
All studies assessing the effects of colostrum in athletes subject to cardiovascular training have failed to find any difference between colostrum and whey protein (control) for influencing VO2 max.
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