Echinacea and Increased Hemoglobin Levels

• Echinacea Supplementation Does Not Impact Aerobic Capacity and Erythropoiesis in Athletes: A Meta-Analysis.

  • 2024-06-22
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 107
  • Nutrients 16(13)
  • • Stephanie Deccy
    • Callie Bartkowiak
    • Nathan Rodricks
    • Kristopher Paultre

  • PubMed: 38999738
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu16131991

  3 Insights on

  • Increased Hemoglobin Levels

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Athletes

  For ... hematocrit levels, there were small, positive effect sizes when comparing the difference in pre- and post-intervention levels between the echinacea and placebo groups, at ... 0.34 (p < 0.01, 95% CI -0.10-0.78, I² = 86%) ... though they did not reach statistical significance

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No