Effects of Nitrates and Citrulline Malate on Performance in Professional Professional Soccer (NiCiFut)

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Supplementation

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Nitrates and Citrulline Malate; Dietary Supplement: Control product

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05525871

UCAMCFE-00027

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized, single-center, parallel, team-stratified, stratified experimental study to evaluate the efficacy of a high sports supplement in improving high-intensity intermittent exercise performance in professional female soccer players.

Full description

Subjects who meet the selection criteria will be randomly assigned to each of the study groups (investigational product or placebo, depending on the group to which they have been assigned).

The product to be consumed will be Nitrates and Citrulline Malate. Participants will consume the product for 30 days. The intake should be done two hours before each training session and the same dose will be consumed.

The women's soccer players will perform a stress test with gas analysis to measure performance, as well as a Wingate test without consumption of the products. Five days later, the players will perform the Yo-Yo IR1 test in the field and will repeat the same tests performed at the beginning of the test after product consumption.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Present at the time of signing the informed consent at the age between 18 and 40 years.
• Female.
• Healthy subjects without any chronic disease.
• Volunteers capable of understanding the clinical study, willing to give their written informed. consent and comply with the procedures and requirements of the study. and requirements of the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Players who change teams during the experimental study.
• Smoking subjects.
• Subjects using mouthwashes during the study.
• Subjects with a history of drug, alcohol or other substance abuse or other factors that limit their ability to cooperate during the study. factors that limit their ability to cooperate during the study.
• Subjects whose status makes them ineligible for the study, at the discretion of the investigator discretion of the investigator.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Nitrates and Citrulline Malate

Experimental group

Description:

Gel elaborated from fruit puree with high polyphenol content, with the addition of nitrates and citrulline malate as study supplements. addition of nitrates and citrulline malate as study supplements.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Nitrates and Citrulline Malate

Control product

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Consumption of placebo product (Fruit puree)

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Control product