NCT04901390

Impact of Yogurt on Gastrointestinal Health, Regularity, and Thoughts

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 22 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to test the central hypothesis that adding to the diet daily yogurt provides beneficial effects on digestive health and subjective mood in healthy adults.

Detailed description

This clinical trial will include a 4-week lead-in period and a 2-week treatment period. The lead-in period will be devoid of all supplemental and dietary probiotics, fermented dairy products, and fermented foods. Participants will be asked to refrain from consuming all supplemental and dietary probiotics, fermented dairy products, and fermented foods throughout the entire study. During the treatment period, participants will be given yogurt with sugar. This trial will serve as a continuation of the NECTAR Study (NCT04187950).

Conditions

• Gastrointestinal Dysfunction
• Physiological Stress
• Cognition - Other

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Yogurt with B. lactis and added cane sugar	The intervention condition will utilize a commercially available yogurt (Activia) that contains Bifidobacterium animalis lactis DN-173 010/CNCM I-2494 (B. lactis). Participants will consume 170 g of yogurt with cane sugar twice daily for 14 days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-20
• Primary completion: 2022-11-23
• Completion: 2022-11-23
• First posted: 2021-05-25
• Last updated: 2023-07-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States