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| Elysium Health | INDUSTRY |
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The proportion of older individuals is growing, and it is therefore important to investigate ways to promote healthy aging. Exercise is one of the most studied interventions and is known to have a variety of health benefits. Dietary interventions have also shown encouraging results, with intermittent fasting being a promising anti-aging intervention. Likewise, dietary supplementation with precursors that can increase the central metabolite nicotinamide dinucleotide (NAD+) has powerful effects on aging at least in model organisms. Although physical exercise is known to increase health-span, the effects of these latter dietary interventions on aging lacks evidence in humans.
This is a randomized, controlled trial of interventions to slow aging in humans. Healthy older individuals will be randomized into either an aerobic exercise (EXE), time-restricted feeding (TRF), nicotinamide riboside (NR), or control group and followed for twelve weeks. Changes in biomarkers of aging will be assessed before and after the intervention. It is hypothesized that the interventions provide similar, superior benefits to these markers when compared to placebo.
Primary Outcome: Interleukin-6 levels. Secondary Outcomes: CRP, TNF-α, NAD+, hematologic age, epigenetic age (DNA methylation), transcriptomic age (RNA-sequencing), functional age (handgrip strength, gait speed), body composition, vocal age, and photo age
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Exercise arm | Experimental | 12 week aerobic exercise will be performed in agreement with current guidelines for exercise in older adults from the American College of Sports Medicine. A frequency of 5 days/week, totaling 150-300 min/week, performed at both moderate and vigorous intensities is chosen. This dose has a high level of evidence supporting positive effects on health- and life-span. |
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| Time restricted feeding | Experimental | A 12 week fasting/feeding regiment of 16 hours fasting /8 hours feeding each day is chosen. This ratio has been shown to be tolerable in older individuals. |
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| Nicotinamide riboside | Experimental | Previous clinical trials have shown that an nicotinamide riboside dose up to 2 g/day is well tolerated with no treatment-emergent adverse events reported so far and with efficacy on our primary outcome measurement. A dose of 2 g/day NR is therefore chosen and will be split in two: 1 g in the morning and 1 g in the evening. |
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| Control | No Intervention | A control group with no intervention. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Exercise | Behavioral | Participants randomized to the EXE group will perform aerobic exercise five days per week, totaling 150-300 min/week, at moderate to vigorous intensities i.e., ~60-90% heart rate (HR) max. Participants randomized to the EXE group will perform aerobic exercise five days per week, totaling 150-300 min/week, at moderate to vigorous intensities i.e., ~60-90% heart rate (HR) max. Exercise intensity and duration will gradually increase up until week 3 to habituate the participants to the exercise. The training modality will change to reduce the risk of injuries and may be impacted by individual preferences to increase adherence. The training can be performed individually or in groups of 4-6 participants, depending on the geographical locations of the participants home address, and on the current recruitment rate. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Interleukin-6 levels in plasma | Day 1 compared to day 84 |
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| Concentration of CRP in plasma | Day 1 compared to day 84 | |
| Concentration of TNF-α in plasma | Day 1 compared to day 84 | |
| Concentration of NAD in whole blood |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Copenhagen | Copenhagen | 2200 | Denmark |
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| ID | Term |
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| D015444 | Exercise |
| C018613 | nicotinamide-beta-riboside |
| ID | Term |
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| D009043 | Motor Activity |
| D009068 | Movement |
| D009142 | Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena |
| D055687 | Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena |
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| Time restricted feeding | Behavioral | Participants randomized to the time restricted feeding group will be instructed to abstain from any caloric intake during the targeted fasting window of 16 continuous hours and consume ad libitum during the eating window of 8 hours. |
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| Nicotinamide riboside | Dietary Supplement | Participants randomized to the NR group will be instructed to take the administered tablets once in the morning (1 g) and once in the evening (1 g), in both cases with a meal. |
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| Day 1 compared to day 84 |
| Change in fat mass | Measured using bio-impedance | Day 1 compared to day 84 |
| Change in lean mass | Measured using bio-impedance | Day 1 compared to day 84 |
| Grip strength | Day 1 compared to day 84 |
| Gait speed | Measured over 4 meters. | Day 1 compared to day 84 |
| Predicted age (DNA methylation) | From PBMCs | Day 1 compared to day 84 |
| Predicted age (Blood age) | From 33 blood parameters | Day 1 compared to day 84 |
| Predicted age (Transcriptomics) | From RNA seq of PBMCs | Day 1 compared to day 84 |
| Predicted age (voice) | From voice recordings | Day 1 compared to day 84 |
| Predicted age (photo) | From a portrait photo | Day 1 compared to day 84 |