Safety and Tolerability of BioFe for Iron Deficiency Management

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

6 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-05-17

Study Completion Date

2020-06-30

Brief Summary

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This study evaluates the safety, tolerability, and activity of BioFe in the dietary management of iron deficiency in adults.

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Detailed Description

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Iron deficiency is the most common, widespread, and costly nutritional disorder worldwide with the World Health Organization (WHO) stating that up to 2 billion people are iron deficient. There is a serious and widespread misconception that oral iron supplements are safe and effective at alleviating iron deficiency. In a recent Cochrane review of 67 clinical trials, women taking oral iron supplements had a mere 38% decreased risk of iron deficiency compared to placebo. On the contrary, these subjects had a 114% increased risk of side effects, the vast majority of which were associated with gastrointestinal (GI) disturbance.

In infants and children, iron deficiency impedes mental, motor, and auditory neuronal development leading to serious lifelong cognitive and physical deficiencies. In adults, iron deficiency, and associated iron deficiency anemia, cause extreme fatigue, decreased immune system function and increased susceptibility to infectious disease, reduced work capacity, dizziness, headaches, hair loss, and generalized reduced quality of life. Iron deficiency is also linked to Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS), adult hearing deficits, reduced strength, coordination, and endurance, anxiety, increased heart failure morbidity, decreased intellectual performance, and erectile dysfunction among many others conditions.

Most iron deficient people are not effectively treated by, or are intolerant to, oral iron supplements. Intravenous iron repletion drugs effective, but are also costly and onerous to deliver leading to both patient and payor dissatisfaction.

BioFe, Medical Food for Iron Deficiency is nutritional/Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), expressing the Ferritin protein. Ferritin is an indispensable iron storage, transport and absorption protein normally produced at low levels by almost all living organisms. An illustrative example of the biology of the Ferritin/Iron complex is its presence in human breast milk, providing infants the natural biological iron required for rapid learning and development, without gastrointestinal upset. BioFe provides high level expression of Ferritin that is naturally complexed with iron during culture, is pasteurized, and dried.

Conditions

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Iron Deficiency

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Consumption of BioFe in a single cohort of up to 8 subjects with iron deficiency.

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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BioFe Medical Food

Consumption of BioFe Medical Food in a single cohort of up to 8 female subjects with iron deficiency.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

BioFe

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

BioFe Medical Food is comprised of cultured nutritional/Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) with high levels of Ferritin/Iron complex, pasteurized, and dried

Interventions

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BioFe

BioFe Medical Food is comprised of cultured nutritional/Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) with high levels of Ferritin/Iron complex, pasteurized, and dried

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Moderate iron deficiency defined as transferrin saturation (TSAT) \<20% and serum ferritin \<50 ng/mL.

Exclusion Criteria

* Female subjects who are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or not willing to use an acceptable form of contraception (tubal ligation or otherwise be incapable of pregnancy, hormonal contraceptives, spermicide plus barrier, or intrauterine device).
* Female subjects who are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed after enrolling in the study.
* Hemochromatosis or other iron storage disorders.
* Hemoglobin below 8 g/dL.
* Previous gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, or gastric band surgery.
* Currently on iron supplements and/or multivitamins containing iron (subjects may be pre-screened four weeks prior to the screening visit in order to stop/washout or switch to vitamins not containing iron).
* Currently on monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) or Demerol.
* Current diagnosis of asthma and is actively using anti-asthmatic therapy.
* Smoking within two weeks of screening, current smoking, or anticipated smoking after enrolling in the study.
* Active malignancy within one year of screening.
* Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) greater than two times the upper limit of normal.
* Known positive Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, or HIV-1/HIV-2.
* Unregulated hypertension, chronic kidney disease, irritable bowel syndrome, anemia of chronic diseases, chronic autoimmune inflammatory condition.
* Significant cardiovascular disease or congestive heart failure.
* Known allergy to yeast or any other component of BioFe.
* Received an investigational drug within 30 days of screening.
* Any laboratory abnormality, medical condition or psychiatric disorder, which in the opinion of the clinical principal investigator or Sponsor, may result in the subject being unable to comply with study requirements.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

80 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No