Peanut Consumption Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Exercise and Peanut Consumption
This study will enroll and randomly assign 30 sedentary, healthy overweight men and women to
two groups. Participants will either start by consuming peanuts for 4 weeks, and then go on
to exercise at high intensity intervals (HIIT) for 4 weeks, or the reverse order. The study
will test and compare the effect of peanuts and exercise on inflammation and heart rate
variability as indicators of heart health. Specifically, the study will measure inflammation
in the blood because there is evidence that higher inflammation is found in heart disease
patients. There is also evidence that inflammation is related to death as a result of heart
disease in healthy individuals. Finally, there are ongoing trials targeting these markers to
improve heart health. The study hypothesizes that peanuts and exercise will reduce
inflammation. It is also expected to find less inflammation because exercise and peanut
consumption activate a part of the nervous system that has been shown to cause a similar
effect.
Additionally, previous studies show that inflammation involves the mitochondria in the cell,
the part of the cell that produces energy. For this reason, it is expected that exercise and
peanuts will cause changes in the mitochondria. The study will test and compare mitochondrial
activity in response to peanut consumption and exercise.
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| Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
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| Recruiting |
NCT05932875 -
Peanut Consumption to Augment Adaptations to Concurrent Resistance and Aerobic Exercise Training
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