In healthy and symptomatic people, very low-quality evidence showed that spinal manipulation did not influence oxytocin levels.
In plain wordsVery weak evidence suggests spinal manipulation did not change the body's own oxytocin levels.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- No significant changeOxytocin level after spinal manipulation
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Receptor activity and mechanism · Endocrine and hormones
Source sentences
There was also very low-quality evidence that spinal manipulation does not influence substance-P, neurotensin, oxytocin, orexin-A, testosterone and epinephrine/nor-epinephrine.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Various databases were searched (inception till May 2023) and fifteen trials (737 participants) that met the inclusion criteria were included in the review.
This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.