A Comparison of Changes in Bone Density With the Same Bone-health Plan, But With Different Bone-health Supplements

Integrative Health Technologies

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteopenia

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: AlgaeCal-1; Dietary Supplement: AlgaeCal-2

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NETWORK; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01114685

AlgaeCal 1 & 2

Details and patient eligibility

About

A comparison of changes in bone density following the same bone-health plan, but with a different bone-health supplement.

Full description

The US Surgeon General's Report on Bone Health suggests America's bone-health is in jeopardy and issued a "call to action" to develop bone-health plans that:

1. improve nutrition,
2. increase health literacy and,
3. increase physical activity.

The purpose of this study was to use a comparative effective research model to compare 6-month changes in bone mineral density (BMD)in two study groups. Both followed the same bone health plan that contained the three components listed above with the same plant-source calcium supplement, but enhanced with different levels of calcium, vitamin D3, vitamin K and magnesium.

Enrollment: 354 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All subjects were required to contact the physicians to ensure they had no medical issues that would preclude their participation.

Exclusion criteria

• Younger the 18 years of age, and
• Recommendations not to participate from their physicians.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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354 participants in 2 patient groups

Effects of taking AlgaeCal-1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Following a bone health plan with Algae-cal-1 supplement

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: AlgaeCal-1

Effects of taking AlgaeCal-2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Following a bone-health plan while consuming AlgaeCal 2

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: AlgaeCal-2