NCT03754920

Prolonged Fasting With Meditation and Mild Physical Exercise

The Physical and Mental Effects of Prolonged Fasting With Meditation and Mild Physical Exercise

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To determine the feasibility, safety and efficacy of fasting, participants are recruited in a 5-days fasting ( without any food, except unlimited mineral water),and do some fitness regimen (such as meditation and mild physical exercise ) during fasting.The samples will be collected from participates and subjected to comprehensive analysis ,including routine medical examination in blood, metabonomics and proteomics anlysis in serum and urine samples, gut microbiome analysis in stood samples, and so on.

Detailed description

1. Recruiting: 45 healthy people will be included in the clinical trial according to the Inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria. 2. Fasting : Participants fast for five days, without any food, except unlimited mineral water. Participants will do some fitness regimen (such as meditation and mild physical exercise ) during fasting. 3. Re-feeding: Gradually distribute participants with rice flour, porridge and juice in the next 3 days. 4. Follow-up :The health checklist is similar with that during fasting on the first month. 5. Data processing, statistics and analysis. Diet monitoring: The intake of glucose decreases, while the burning of fat increases, which can down-regulate glucose level in blood, up-regulate ketone level in urine. Thus, the fasting situation of participants can be monitored by the variation of blood glucose and urine ketone.

Conditions

• Fasting

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	prolonged fasting	Fasting for 5 days: Fasting with some fitness regimen, such as meditation and mild physical exercise; Feeding for 3 days: Gradually distribute participants with rice flour, porridge and juice.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-09
• Primary completion: 2019-04-09
• Completion: 2019-09-09
• First posted: 2018-11-27
• Last updated: 2018-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China