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Nutritional Transitions to More Plant Proteins and Less Animal Proteins: Understanding the Induced Metabolic Reorientations and Searching for Their Biomarkers (ProVegOmics)

Nutritional Transitions to More Plant Proteins and Less Animal Proteins: Understanding the Induced Metabolic Reorientations and Searching for Their Biomarkers

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04236518
Acronym
ProVegOmics
Enrollment
53
Registered
2020-01-22
Start date
2020-08-27
Completion date
2022-08-05
Last updated
2026-08-07

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Fasting Blood Sugar Above Normal, Hypertriglyceridemia, Lower Than Standard HDL-cholesterol Level, Metabolic Syndrome, Slightly Elevated Blood Pressure

Keywords

Metabolomics, Plant Proteins, Dietary, Meat Proteins, Dietary Proteins, Metabolic Syndrome, Hypertriglyceridemia, Waist Circumference

Brief summary

The dietary shift from animal to plant protein sources is one of the key aspects of the nutritional transition towards more sustainable food system and diets. However the metabolic implication of this shift in protein sources are still poorly understood. This project aims to characterize and understand the metabolic orientations specifically induced by animal and vegetable dietary proteins, in order to better analyze the metabolic reorientations that would result from the expected increase in the share of plant proteins in different dietary contexts, especially those of the Western type, often associated with the development of metabolic deregulations (obesity and cardiometabolic risk).

Detailed description

The main objectives of this project are: * Characterize the metabolic adaptations induced by animal or plant protein diets and their repercussions in terms of physiology and health. * Characterize the medium-term metabolomic signatures induced by this shift in dietary protein sources * Validate, in a human population, biomarkers of dietary animal or plant proteins, previously identified in pre-clinical studies. This clinical trial is open, monocentric, controlled, randomized, with a cross experimental design. 20 men or postmenopausal women will follow for 4 weeks a controlled diet with a protein fraction constituted mainly from animal or vegetal sources. After a 2-week washout period(+21D/-7D), they will follow another 4 week of controlled diet with predominantly animal or plant protein depending on 1st intervention period diet. At the end of each intervention period, a post-prandial exploration will be conducted with the administration of a high-fat, high-sugar meal and subsequent blood and urine sampling. The order in which participants will received the two diets will be randomized.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALDiets with either predominantly animal protein sources.

20 men or postmenopausal women will follow for 4 weeks a controlled diet with a protein fraction constituted mainly from animal sources. At the end of the intervention period, a post-prandial exploration will be conducted with the administration of a high-fat, high-sugar meal and subsequent blood and urine sampling.

BEHAVIORALDiets with predominantly plant protein sources

20 men or postmenopausal women will follow for 4 weeks a controlled diet with a protein fraction constituted mainly from vegetal sources. At the end of the intervention period, a post-prandial exploration will be conducted with the administration of a high-fat, high-sugar meal and subsequent blood and urine sampling.

Sponsors

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Lead SponsorOTHER
UMR 1019, Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRA, Centre Auvergne-Rhône Alpes
CollaboratorUNKNOWN
UMR 0914, Physiologie de la Nutrition et du Comportement Alimentaire, AgroParistech (adresse si besoin: 16 rue Claude Bernard, 75231 Paris Cedex 05).
CollaboratorUNKNOWN

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
25 Years to 55 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* BMI between 25 and 35 kh/m² (terminals included) * Waist circumference ≥ 94 cm for men and ≥80 cm for women * at the choice, one of the following criteria: Triglyceridemia \> 1.49g/L, fasting blood glucose≥ 5.6 mmol/L , a HDL cholesterol \<1.03mmol/L for men or \<1.29 mmol/L for women , systolic blood pressure≥ 130 mmHg or diastolic≥ 85 mmHg .

Exclusion criteria

* Systolic blood pressure \> 150mmHg or diastolic blood pressure \> 90mmHg * pathology and medical treatment * diabetes * Smoking \> 4 cigarettes /day * Alcohol consumption \> 2 glasses/day * Antibiotics taken during the last 3 months before the clinical trial * Specific diets

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
changes of blood metabolomicsday 0the plasma metabolome will be determined by Liquid Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Changes of urine metabolomicsday 0the urine metabolome will be determined by Liquid Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry
Changes in blood glucoseday 0The glucose concentrations will be determined by the blood samples taken by ELISA
Changes in blood insulinday 0The insulin concentrations will be determined in the blood samples and measured by ELISA
Changes in blood cholesterolday 0The cholesterol concentrations will be determined in the blood samples taken
Changes in blood triglyceridesday 0The triglycerides concentrations will be determined in the blood samples taken
changes in blood IL-6day 0The IL-6 concentrations will be determined in the blood samples taken
changes in blood IL-10day 0The IL-10 concentrations will be determined in the blood samples taken
changes in blood CRPDay 0The CRP concentrations will be determined in the blood samples taken
measure of protein synthesis by isotopic labellingDay 28measurement of protein synthesis using deuterium labelling water
Measure of lipogenesis de novo by isotopic labellingDay 28measurement of lipogenesis using deuterium labelling water
Changes in vascular functionDay 0will be determined by measuring minimal and maximal diameter of brachial artery in mm and the percentage of dilatation using the Flow-Mediated Dilatation GE echographer
Changes in microcirculationDay 0will be determined measuring resting state and maximal flow by Flow Laser Doppler Periflux 5000
Changes in mRNA (transcriptomics) derived from Peripheral Blood Monocellular Cells (PBMC)Day 0will be measured by qPCR
Changes in body compositionDay 0will be determined using bioelectric impendence analysis, Quad Scan.
Changes of the microbiota (stool samples)day 0will be determined by the identification of bacterial biodiversity by a genetic sequencing analysis of bacterial DNA
Food statement at inclusionday 0using 3 days food log before day 0

Countries

France

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORGisèle Pickering

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Aug 8, 2026