Effects of Probiotic Supplementation With Weight Reducing Plan in Patients With Food Addiction and Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery

National Nutrition and Food Technology Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery and Food Addiction

Treatments: Other: Placebo supplement; Dietary Supplement: Probiotic supplement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06327919

62885

Details and patient eligibility

About

To study the effects of probiotic supplementation with a weight loss program and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on anthropometric measures, eating behavior, food addiction, and related hormone levels in patients with food addiction and weight regain after bariatric surgery, 50 patients who referred to obesity clinic with weight regain (regaining ≥10% nadir weight) after bariatric surgery (at least 18 months), and food addiction will be randomly allocated to receive a weight loss program and CBT plus either probiotic, or placebo for 12 weeks. At the first and the end of the intervention, anthropometric measurements, eating behavior, food addiction, leptin, serotonin, and oxytocin will be assessed and compared between groups.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI ≥25 kg/m2; willingness to participate in the study; not having diseases such as cancer, thyroid, diabetes, renal or liver (except fatty liver); non-pregnant or lactating or menopause or professional athlete; not use of any antibiotics in the last three weeks and any protein or probiotic supplement in the last month

Exclusion criteria

• taking antibiotic; using probiotic supplements/products or protein supplements; using weight-loss or appetite-suppressing medications; pregnancy; consuming less than 90% of the supplements prescribed during the study; following less than 90% of diet or physical activity for more than 10 days; participants who refuse to continue the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Probiotic supplementation with a weight loss program and ten one-hour online individual sessions cognitive behavioral therapy for 12 weeks. multi-strain probiotics were used in this study. Each probiotic capsule contains Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Bifidobacterium lactis, Bifidobacterium longum, Lactobacillus reuteri, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, magnesium stearate and maltodextrin. 1.8 × 109 CFU / capsule. 2 capsules per day, for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Probiotic supplement

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Placebo supplementation with a weight loss program and ten one-hour online individual sessions cognitive behavioral therapy for 12 weeks. The placebo capsule contains 300 mg of starch. 2 capsules per day, for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Placebo supplement