Status:

COMPLETED

Synbiotic Dietary Supplement and Gut Microbiota

Lead Sponsor:

The Cleveland Clinic

Conditions:

Healthy

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-45 years

Brief Summary

To test the feasibility and safety of our designer synbiotic on gastrointestinal symptoms and gut microbiota and fecal metabolomics.

Detailed Description

This will be a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled paired crossover pilot study in healthy controls aimed to evaluate gastrointestinal tolerance of a synbiotic dietary supplement.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • BMI 19-25 (lean) and BMI 30-35 (obese)
  • Age 18-45 years old
  • subjects must be willing to consume oral dietary supplement and placebo daily for a total of 56 days,
  • willing to complete gastrointestinal (GI) and dietary surveys, body composition assessment, and provide blood, urine and stool sample at 4 intervals during the pilot study (baseline, after first supplementation period (day 28), after washout period (day 49), and after second supplementation period (day 77)

Exclusion

  • antibiotic consumption within 28 days of study initiation
  • diabetes
  • kidney disorders
  • history of cardiac disease and medications for cardiac disease
  • use of statins and antihypertensive drugs
  • inflammatory bowel disease
  • irritable bowel syndrome
  • history of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
  • history of intestinal surgery, excluding hernia repair and appendectomy
  • active cancer diagnosis; chronic acid suppression treatment (proton pump inhibitors, histamine H2 receptor antagonists)
  • immune modulatory treatments (e.g. chronic immunosuppressive medications, chronic NSAIDs)
  • abnormal liver or kidney function as measured by routine serum chemistry testing
  • severe anemia or significant white blood cell or platelet abnormalities
  • no additional blood or blood product donations during study

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 10 2020

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 27 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

34 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04097106

Start Date

November 10 2020

End Date

June 27 2022

Last Update

December 9 2024

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Kassandra Spates-Harden

Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44101