Research overview
Menopause
Clinical reports show that lingzhi can clearly improve the symptoms of menopausal syndrome in both women and men and raise quality of life, possibly by helping restore balance in the nervous, endocrine and immune systems. Men may also want to see the topic “Prostate and urination”.
This topic includes 2 studies and reports, each linked to its source.
Terms explained on this page (4)
- randomized
- Deciding who takes lingzhi and who does not by something like drawing lots, so the two groups are as similar as possible and the comparison is fair.
- double-blind
- Neither the participants nor the researchers know who is taking lingzhi and who is taking the comparison product, which makes the results more objective.
- prostate symptom score
- An internationally used questionnaire score (IPSS) for rating how bad symptoms such as frequent urination, nighttime urination and difficulty urinating are.
- placebo
- A comparison product that looks and tastes like the real product but contains no active ingredients, used to compare against the real thing.