NCT06307275

Intermittent Fasting on Body Fat and Quality of Life

The Effect of Intermittent Fasting on Body Fat and Quality of Life

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Loma Linda University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this investigator-initiated study to check the feasibility that intermittent fasting has on body fat loss and quality of life.

Detailed description

Start of study: Informed Consent, Body Fat Analysis, Questionnaires on quality of life, sleep, and stress. For the next four weeks, participants will eat their normal food intake with no restrictions on when to eat. Participants will keep their normal weekly exercise routine. Midway of study: Body Fat Analysis, Questionnaires on quality of life, sleep, and stress. For the next four weeks, participants will do the intermittent fasting program. This program has participants fasting 16 hours from their last meal of the previous evening's meal to the first meal of their next day. Then for 8 hours, participants are able to eat. During the fasting, participants are allowed to consume water and black coffee/tea. Participants will also keep their normal weekly exercise routine. End of study: Body Fat Analysis, Questionnaires on quality of life, sleep, and stress.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Fasting	Fasting for 16 hours from participant last meal of the previous evening's meal to the first meal of the next day. Then for 8 hours, participant is able to eat. During the fasting, participants are allowed to consume water and black coffee/tea. Participants will also keep their normal weekly exercise routine.
OTHER	non fasting	Participants will not be fasting during these four weeks. They will eat their normal food intake and keep their normal physical activity levels.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-11
• Primary completion: 2025-12-01
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2024-03-12
• Last updated: 2025-04-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States