Optimal Nutrition in the Elderly: High Protein Diets for Muscular Metabolic, and Microbiome Health

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Sarcopenia; Diet and Nutrition - Other diet and nutrition disorders; Musculoskeletal - Other muscular and skeletal disorders

• Registration Number: ACTRN12616000310460
• Lead Sponsor: niversity Of Auckland

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-03-09
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

*Healthy community dwellers (activities of daily living preformed unassisted)
*BMI (18-35 kg/m2)
*Sedentary to moderately active (structured activity of less than 4 hours per week)
*No history of gastrointestinal disease or disturbance, or antibiotics use in the previous 3 months, or probiotic use in the preceding one month. Normal bowel frequency (minimum once every 2 days, maximum 3 times per day)

Exclusion Criteria

*Receiving dietetic intervention or prescribed dietary supplements in the last month, including calcium and fish oil.
*Receiving palliative care
*History of alcohol abuse
*Smoking
*Participation in an investigational drug evaluation
*On medications which may affect the muscle: however, ACE inhibitors, statins and calcium channel blockers will be allowed.
*Advanced organic diseases: cardiac illness; myocardial infarction; thrombophlebitis; cerebrovascular disease
*Major systemic disease diagnosed or active within the previous 20 years (e.g. cancer, rheumatoid arthritis)
*Osteoarthritis, classified by inability to perform maximal contractions of upper and lower limbs without pain
*Acute febrile illness within the previous 6 months
*Metabolic disease (e.g. diabetes, obesity, thyroid disease)
*Meat or dairy allergy, vegetarian

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified