Open Label Randomized Clinical Study to Promote a Healthy Lifestyle in Medical Students

Personalized Nutrition, Physical Activity and Therapy to Modulate Gut Microbiota: a Randomized Clinical Study to Promote a Healthy Lifestyle in Students

The main medical and social purpose of the project "It's trendy to be healthy!" is the promotion of healthy lifestyles and healthy eating among student youth. The relevance of this project is beyond doubt, as the WHO called obesity a non-communicable epidemic, and according to research by the Jane Schiller University of Germany (Germany), as mentioned above, Ukraine topped the list of the countries with high mortality due to malnutrition

Inclusion Criteria:

• medical students aged between 18-25 years;
• presence of presence of vitamin D deficiency or insuficiency (serum total vit D3 level less than );
• signed informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• regular intake of probiotics, prebiotics, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, calcium and vit. D supplements for 3 months prior the inclusion;
• previously diagnosed allergy to gut microbiota-based therapy; gastrointestinal disorders including food allergy, gluten-sensitive enteropathy, ulcerative colitis;
• suffering from any psychiatric illness; presence of diabetes mellitus, chronic cardiovascular or respiratory disease, an active malignant tumor or chronic infections; participation in another clinical trial;
• pregnancy or lactation;
• any condition thought to be associated with poor compliance (e.g., alcoholism or drug addiction) or any condition or circumstance that would, in the opinion of the investigator, prevent completion of the study or interfere with analysis of study results.