Capillary Glycerolemia Evolution During Physical Exercise (LSEEGLYCEROL)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity; Body Mass Index

Treatments: Other: Physical exercice - workout; Other: Normalized meal; Other: Normal meal; Other: Physical exercice - moderate intensity; Other: Fasting; Other: Physical exercice - high intensity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04084691

190089 - IDRCB 2019-A00200-57

Details and patient eligibility

About

Maximum fatty acid oxidation is known to occur at exercise intensities between 45 and 65% VO2max and in the fasting state.

However, the optimal level may depend on various unknown factors. Glycerolemia is a good marker of the fatty acid metabolism but its evolution remains poorly described, maybe due to the difficulty of the measure.

A new device allows an easy measurement of glycerolemia during exercise and could enable personalization strategies to optimize exercise efficacy.

In this study, the investigators plan to test three different exercise types and three different fasting conditions with three replicates each to evaluate the variability of glycerolemia and its evolution during exercise.

Full description

The metabolism of mobilized fatty acids as an energy reserve during physical exercise produces glycerol, which makes it a marker of the intensity of lipolysis.

This measurement of the intensity of lipolysis in humans can be carried out according to several methods. Since glycerol is a product of lipolysis, its rate of appearance (Ra) in the blood represents a physical quantity naturally associated with lipolysis activity. Unfortunately, its quantification requires the use of a tracer isotope (deuterated glycerol), which limits its applicability. The alternative is the determination of glycerolemia in the blood or in the interstitial fluid via a microdialysis probe placed in subcutaneous adipose tissue;

Recently, a measuring device has been proposed which makes it possible to measure glycerolemia from capillary blood, in the manner of measuring blood glucose in diabetic patients. This device has the advantage of being used repeatedly after a physical exercise. This flexibility also makes it possible to consider the personalization of the sports program by identifying the circumstances associated with an increase in lipolysis such as the type of meal preceding the exercise or its intensity.

Evidence suggests that moderate-intensity exercise (about 45% -65% VO2max) performed under fasting conditions maximizes lipid metabolism as a source of energy, compared with carbohydrate metabolism. But these data conceal a likely significant variability in individual outcomes, including levels of training, gender, age, and nutritional intake prior to exercise. Our hypothesis is that the current recommendation to the diabetic patient, or with a metabolic syndrome, to exercise moderate intensity fasting physical activity could be adapted individually to each patient in order to optimize the benefits of such a practice. In this sense, the easy access to a measurement of capillary glycerolemia could make it possible to identify in a personalized way the type of physical activity.

This research project aims to accurately describe the evolution of capillary glycerolemia in several configurations of physical exercise (variable intensity) by controlling the effect of the previous meal. It will also seek to identify situations associated with a greater increase in capillary glycerolemia to pave the way for personalization of the sports activity program.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria :

• Major patients followed in Diabetology-Nutrition Day Hospital of Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital as part of the ETAPES program
• overweight or obese patient: body mass index BMI> 25 kg / m²
• Volunteer to participate in and follow a proposed physical activity program as part of regular follow-up
• Volunteer to participate in the research, comfortable with the use of the device of auto measurement of capillary glycerolemia

Exclusion criteria :

• Pregnancy in progress or breastfeeding
• Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Patient participating in another interventional research protocol
• No affiliation to the social security scheme or French Universal Health Cover (CMU)
• Absence of informed consent, written and signed

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

Single Arm

Experimental group

Description:

Every patient will undergo every combination of physical exercise/meal type (3x3 combinations), one following the other. Each combination is replicated three times.

Treatment:

Other: Normalized meal

Other: Normal meal

Other: Physical exercice - moderate intensity

Other: Physical exercice - high intensity

Other: Fasting

Other: Physical exercice - workout