ETASCAI Pilot Project

NCT ID: NCT06790849

Last Updated: 2025-11-19

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

45 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-02-24

Study Completion Date

2025-10-22

Brief Summary

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This pilot study aims to investigate the chronic effects of ETAS® on cognitive, affective and inflammatory outcomes in healthy adults aged 60-80 years with mild to moderate subjective cognitive complaints.

Detailed Description

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This pilot study will employ a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled parallel design to investigate the chronic effects of 12-week-long ETAS® consumption on affective, inflammatory, metabolic, and anthropometric outcomes in healthy older adults with mild to moderate subjective cognitive complaints. Thirty participants will be randomised to Intervention 1, Intervention 2, or Placebo groups where they will be consuming capsules containing 300mg ETAS®, 1500mg ETAS®, or placebo, respectively, for 12-weeks. Outcome measures will be acquired before and after a 12-week chronic supplementation. These will include cognitive measures of overall cognitive functioning, executive function, and cognitive failures; affective measures of depression and anxiety symptomatology; quality of life, and sleep; gastrointestinal symptomatology; inflammatory measures of IFN-γ, IL-1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-13, TNF-α, CRP; systolic and diastolic blood pressure, as well as height, weight, hip and waist circumference. In addition, tau from plasma will be recorded at all timepoints.

Conditions

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Cognition Affect (Mental Function) Inflammation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

QUADRUPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Active 1: ETAS® (300mg)

Subjects will consume 300mg ETAS®/day (capsule).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Active 1 ETAS®

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

300 mg ETAS®

Active 1: ETAS® (1500mg)

Subjects will consume 1500mg ETAS®/day (capsule).

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Active 2 ETAS®

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

1500mg ETAS®

Placebo: Matched placebo

Subjects will consume a matched placebo capsule.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Placebo

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Matched placebo capsule

Interventions

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Active 1 ETAS®

300 mg ETAS®

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Active 2 ETAS®

1500mg ETAS®

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Placebo

Matched placebo capsule

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Aging between 60-80 years old
* Having normal vision and hearing
* Having a body mass index between 18.5 and 30
* Having mild to moderate subjective cognitive complaints

Exclusion Criteria

* Smoking
* Having food allergies or intolerances
* Following restrictive and/or unbalanced diets
* Changing dietary intake majorly in past month
* Being diagnosed with any psychiatric or neurologic conditions (e.g. schizophrenia, depression, dementia) including eating disorders
* Being diagnosed with any cardiometabolic diseases (including type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease), or suffering from hypertension or thrombosis related disorders or suffer from thyroid disease
* Being anaemic
* Currently taking anticoagulants, antiplatelet medication, antidepressants, proton-pump inhibitors
* Currently consuming prebiotic or probiotic supplements
* Continuous antibiotic use for \> 3 days within 1 month prior to enrolment
* Continuous use of weight-loss drug for \> 1 month before screening
* Having inflammatory bowel disease; coeliac disease; total colectomy or bariatric surgery; irritable bowel disease; end stage renal disease; active cancer, or treatment for any cancer, in last 3 years
Minimum Eligible Age

60 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

80 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Amino Up Chemicals Co., Ltd.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Reading

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Piril Hepsomali

Principle Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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University of Reading, School of Psychology and Clinical Languages

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

Other Identifiers

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UREC 24_39

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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