Effects of Whole Egg Consumption on Inflammation, Mood, and Recovery in Collegiate Female Gymnasts

Iowa State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Inflammation

Treatments: Other: Whole egg consumption

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05034315

17-309

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objectives were to investigate the effects of whole egg consumption by collegiate female gymnasts on inflammatory markers, mood, and recovery.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 22 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Membership on the university gymnastics team

Exclusion criteria

• egg allergies, asthma, coronary artery disease, depression, diabetes, hypertension, migraines, cancer or cancer-related complications, or auto-immune disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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13 participants in 2 patient groups

Whole egg consumption

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Whole egg consumption

No egg control

No Intervention group