NCT05698381

Daily Vinegar Ingestion and Metabolic Health

Effect of Daily Vinegar Ingestion for Four Weeks on Mood State, Inflammatory State, and Risk for Metabolic Syndrome in Healthy Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Arizona State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if vinegar ingestion promotes beneficial changes to metabolic health parameters in healthy, overweight adults.

Detailed description

Recent research, in animal and human subjects, suggests that vinegar intake is inversely associated with insulin resistance, mood states and depression, inflammation, and other disease parameters. The study will be conducted as a randomized controlled trial in overweight adults to further examine these relationships and possible mechanisms. Although the mechanisms are not known, research suggests that changes in the gut microbiome, a response to the ingestion of the postbiotic acetic acid, may factor into the beneficial effects of vinegar ingestion. Through analyses of blood, changes in key blood metabolites associated with mood states (e.g., gamma-aminobutyric acid) as well as markers of gut health (e.g., LPS binding protein) and inflammation (e.g., CRP) will be assessed. Additionally mood state will be assessed using validated measures and determine risk for metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors associated with many chronic conditions. It is hypothesized that vinegar ingestion will promote beneficial changes to these health parameters.

Conditions

• Inflammation
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Liquid vinegar	2 tablespoons consumed twice daily with meals
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Vinegar pill	2 pills consumed upon waking

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-08-15
• Completion: 2023-08-15
• First posted: 2023-01-26
• Last updated: 2024-01-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States