Urinary Incontinence
Urinary Incontinence is a condition involving loss of bladder control, which can lead to urine leakage. It is grouped here under renal conditions.
Urinary incontinence refers to involuntary urine leakage. This page gives a simple, neutral overview of the condition.
This list shows research findings, not treatments. Nothing here replaces medical care. If you have this condition, talk to a doctor.
What may help
None of these options has good evidence yet. Best evidence first.
3 options:1 not enough evidence1 not tested in people1 no benefit found
Red Light Therapy (Photobiomodulation)practiceNot enough evidence
Too few or too small studies to know if it works.
The one study found a benefit.
A randomized trial in postmenopausal women with urinary incontinence reported less urinary loss with photobiomodulation than with placebo.
Open the Red Light Therapy (Photobiomodulation) pagePilatespracticeNot tested in people
Only tested in animals, cells or theory. Results like these often do not carry over to people.
The one study found a benefit.
Pilates is proposed to improve pelvic floor muscle strength and reduce urinary incontinence episodes in women; this is based on expert knowledge rather than a reported clinical study.
Open the Pilates pageBreathworkpracticeNo benefit found
Studies looked for a benefit and did not find one.
The one study found no benefit.
Open the Breathwork page
The expert view shows every study, dose protocol and source.
What may help
Interventions recorded as helping with this condition3 listedThe best we have, but the evidence is still weak
- →PracticesRed Light Therapy (Photobiomodulation)CertaintyLowSourceClinical
A randomized trial in postmenopausal women with urinary incontinence reported less urinary loss with photobiomodulation than with placebo.
Who was studied
- People with a condition
- Menopause
Open Red Light Therapy (Photobiomodulation)Study result
Study population of postmenopausal women with urinary incontinence; PBM reduced urinary loss versus placebo.
- →PracticesPilatesCertaintyLowSourceTheoretical
Pilates is proposed to improve pelvic floor muscle strength and reduce urinary incontinence episodes in women; this is based on expert knowledge rather than a reported clinical study.
Open PilatesStudy result
Pilates improves pelvic floor muscle strength and reduces urinary incontinence episodes in women, making it an effective non-pharmacological treatment.
Very low probability(1)
- →PracticesBreathworkCertaintyVery lowSourceClinicalOpen Breathwork
Who was studied
- People with a condition
What to avoid
Interventions recorded as making it worseNothing in this library is currently recorded as making Urinary Incontinence worse. Coverage is partial, and absence here is not evidence of safety.
How to read the evidence
Evidence tier — overall strength of the evidence for the whole compound
- StrongWell established — backed by strong, consistent human research.
- ModerateSome genuine support, but mostly from small or lower-quality studies. Promising, not proven.
- PreliminaryEarly-stage evidence — a promising hypothesis, not an established effect yet.
- LimitedVery limited evidence — treat this as a hypothesis, not proof.
- InsufficientNot enough good evidence to draw conclusions yet.
Certainty — how sure we can be that the effect is real
- Very highVery sure — strong, consistent evidence
- HighFairly sure — consistent evidence from good studies
- MediumModerately sure — new studies could change this
- LowNot sure — little or mixed evidence
- Very lowVery unsure — almost no usable evidence
Source — where the data comes from
- Meta-analysisPooled analysis of many trials — the strongest evidence
- RCTRandomized controlled trial — a strong human study design
- ClinicalA human clinical study
- Reference knowledgeFrom general health-science or pharmacology references, not a study of this exact claim
- Animal researchStudied in animals, not humans
- Community reportsAggregated user reports — anecdotal signal, not evidence
- TheoreticalMechanism-based reasoning, not yet tested
Study grade — quality of each underlying study (A best, D weakest)
- AHigh-quality — strong, consistent human trials
- BGood — solid evidence with some limitations
- CModerate — limited, small, or mixed-quality studies
- DWeak — preliminary, indirect, or animal-only
Confidence — how strongly the sources back a finding
A 0–100 score from study quality and agreement
Most supplement evidence is graded C–D. Read it as preliminary signal, not proof.
Full write-up
What is it
Urinary Incontinence is a condition involving loss of bladder control, which can lead to urine leakage. It is grouped here under renal conditions.
The page shows that a small number of entities are linked with it as potentially helpful, but the underlying data provided here does not include details about causes, symptoms, or how those connections work. For any medical condition, a clinician can help clarify what the condition means in a specific case.
Evidence-backed options
For Urinary Incontinence, the evidence-backed options in this dataset are limited and vary in strength. Tadalafil has low-probability support from an RCT, while BPC-157 has low-probability support from animal research. Pumpkin Seed Oil appears here with very low-probability support from a pharmacology reference, which is a much weaker kind of evidence.
Taken together, this means the current evidence does not point to a clearly established supplement or compound option. The labels here indicate that any potential benefit is uncertain, and the type of evidence matters: human trial data is generally more informative than animal research or reference-based support. For a condition like Urinary Incontinence, it is reasonable to view these entries as possible leads rather than proven treatments, and to discuss them with a clinician in the context of the underlying cause and overall care plan.