Status:
COMPLETED
The Influence of Probiotics in a Drinkable Yogurt on Skin Health
Lead Sponsor:
Société des Produits Nestlé (SPN)
Conditions:
Skin Health
Eligibility:
FEMALE
25-55 years
Phase:
PHASE1
Brief Summary
The aim of this study is to test if probiotics administered to healthy female subjects in a dairy format have any skin health benefits.
Detailed Description
This is a placebo-controlled, double blind, randomized, single center, human clinical trial aimed at assessing the influence of probiotics on skin health in healthy female subjects, when administered ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Healthy women as assessed by medical history and standard medical examination
- Caucasian
- Age: 25-55 y (inclusive)
- Normal BMI ≤ 30
- Skin type 1-111
- Regular Hormonal Cycle
- Having given his/her written informed consent
- Willing to avoid the consumption of fermented dairy products
- Minimum consumption of dark chocolate during the period of the study
Exclusion
- Smoker
- Pregnant or lactating women
- Post menopausal women
- Heavy alcohol intake (usually consuming more than 3 standard drinks/day)
- Intake of chronic medications except oral contraceptive
- Vitamin and/or mineral and/or antioxidant supplementation over the 3 months preceding the initiation of the study and throughout the study.
- Having skin cancer or genetic disposition to skin cancer
- Regular exposure to artificial UVR
- Daily exposure to sun more than one week over the 2 months preceding the initiation of the study
- Planned vacation to sun during the period of the study.
- Excessive tea drinkers (more than 2 cups a day of green or black tea).
- Excessive consumer of fermented dairy products (more than 150g per day).
- Excessive consumer of dark chocolate (\> 25g per day).
- Regular high exercise such as a marathon
- Subject who regularly takes saunas (dry or wet) or swims daily.
- Subject who cannot be expected to comply with treatment
- Currently participating or having participated in another interventional clinical trial during the last 3 months prior to the beginning of this study.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
April 1 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
207 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00864188
Start Date
February 1 2009
End Date
April 1 2010
Last Update
May 16 2013
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1
Institut für umweltmedizinische Forschung (IUF) an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf gGmbH
Düsseldorf, Germany, 40225