NCT04427852

Nutrition, Vision, and Cognition in Sport Study: Beef

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Texas A&M University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a 30 day beef intervention can improve peak cognitive performance in young, normally menstruating adult women. The control group will consume a daily portion of macronutrient equivalent vegetable source of protein.

Detailed description

The purpose of the Nutrition, Vision, and Cognition in Health Sport: Beef (IONSport-Beef) study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate beef as a nutritional intervention to optimize visual cognitive training performance in generally healthy, normally menstruating women. Female subjects of reproductive age (18-40) will be randomly placed in one of two dietary treatment groups: one serving of beef per day for 30 days or a non-meat protein replacement control. Cognitive performance will be measured in 15 training sessions over 10 days using the sophisticated NeuroTracker™ CORE (NT) 3-Dimensional (3D) software program. It is hypothesized that women consuming 1 serving of beef per day for 30 days will have the highest plasma levels of the beef rich nutrients and demonstrate the highest visual cognitive performance and improvement as compared to the no beef control.

Conditions

• Cognitive Change
• Nutrient Deficiency
• Nutritional Anemia
• Visual Spatial Processing
• Diet, Healthy
• Diet; Deficiency
• Dietary Deficiency
• Dietary B12 Deficiency
• Dietary Zinc Deficiency
• Dietary Vitamin B12 Deficiency Anemia
• Dietary Deficiency of Selenium and Vitamin E

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	30 day Daily consumption of 1 serving of beef	Beef patty will replace one of the participants protein servings each day for 30 days. Each serving is 114 grams of 90% lean ground sirloin given to participants as an uncooked frozen patty.
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	30 day Daily consumption of 1 serving of the vegatable protein source	Veggie patty will replace one of the participants protein servings each day for 30 days. No beef will be consumed during this period. The veggie patty is commercially available Morningstar veggie burger and is given to participants in commercial packaging as a frozen precooked patty.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-20
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2021-06-01
• First posted: 2020-06-11
• Last updated: 2025-09-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States