Nutrition Vision and Cognition in Sport Study: Beef

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    Recruiting
  • participants needed
    80
  • sponsor
    Texas A&M University
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Updated on 16 February 2024
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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.

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.

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Condition Malnutrition, Nutrient Deficiency, Cognitive Change, Nutritional Anemia, Visual Spatial Processing, Diet, Healthy, Dietary B12 Deficiency, Dietary Zinc Deficiency, Dietary Vitamin B12 Deficiency Anemia, Dietary Deficiency of Selenium and Vitamin E
Age 18years - 40years
Treatment 30 day Daily consumption of 1 serving of beef, 30 day Daily consumption of 1 serving of the vegatable protein source
Clinical Study IdentifierNCT04427852
SponsorTexas A&M University
Last Modified on16 February 2024

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Inclusion Criteria

18-40 year old female
Eumenorrheic

Exclusion Criteria

Neuroactive medications such as Ritalin, Adderall, antidepressants etc
Dietary supplements
Iron intake above 15mg/day
Protein intake above 1.5 g/kg/day
More than 1 mild concussion lifetime or 1 mild concussion within the last 12 months
History of affective disorder
Visual impairments uncorrected by glasses
Amenorrhea or dysmenorrhea
Currently being treated for anemia
>3 servings of beef per week
<20 BMI or BMI >35
Consume >100mg caffeine/day (>1 cup of coffee or soda)
<1 hour/week physical activity, >4 hours/week vigorous activity
Depression score >18 (Beck Depression Inventory)
<20 Kcal/kg/day
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