Post-exercise Nutrition Recovery and Immune Response Study

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 22 February 2013
• Main ID: ACTRN12605000168651
• Date of registration: 17/08/2005
• Primary sponsor: Individual Dr Tracy Perry
• Public title: Post-exercise Nutrition Recovery and Immune Response Study
• Scientific title: An investgation of the blood glucose and insulin responses and changes in immune function markers of elite rowers after consuming recovery beverages with differing glycaemic indices and protein content after a two-hour endurance training session.
• Date of first enrolment: 12/08/2005
• Target sample size: 28
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://www.anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12605000168651.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Randomised controlled trial Crossover

Countries of recruitment

New Zealand

Contacts

• Name: Sara Macdonald

• Name: Dr Tracy Perry

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Healthy elite rowers underatking mulitple workouts on the same day and continous through out the week.
Exclusion criteria: Presence of diabetes mellitus.

Age minimum: 0 Not stated
Age maximum: 0 Not stated
Gender: Both males and females

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Blood glucose and insulin and immune responses.

Intervention(s)

After consuming a standardised snack, participants will complete their usual 2 hour endurance based training session. After training each participant will consume one of 4 different beverages on 4 separate occasions in random order. Blood glucose and insulin reponses to each beverage will be monitored. At 2 time points post-conumption blood samples will be drawn to measure immune function.

Primary Outcome(s)

Blood glucose and insulin and immune responses to each beverage.

Secondary Outcome(s)

Feelings of satiety and recovery to each beverage.

Secondary Sponsor(s)

nil