Impact of Dietary Fat and Endurance Running on Intramuscular Lipid Stores
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Summary
This study focuses on understanding how diet and endurance running affect fat stores within muscles, using a technique called 1 H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS). The research involves endurance-trained athletes and aims to explore how a prolonged running session impacts these fat stores, and how they replenish afterwards when following either a low-fat or moderate-fat diet. The importance of this study lies in its potential to shed light on how dietary fat influences the health and performance of individuals engaged in intense physical training. The findings could also contribute to obesity research, helping to understand relationships between muscle fat stores, insulin resistance, and obesity. Participants in this study are endurance athletes who will undergo a 2-hour training run. After this, they will follow two different diets - one with very low fat content (10% of energy from fat) and another with moderate fat content (35% of energy from fat). The order of the diets is randomly assigned. The study measures the change in muscle fat stores after the run and during recovery, while following each diet. The researchers believe that prolonged exercise will decrease muscle fat stores, and that a low-fat diet may slow down their replenishment compared to a moderate-fat diet.
Protocol
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.Treatment Study
Eligibility
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.Any sex
Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.From 18 to 49 Years
Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.Healthy volunteers allowed
If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.Conditions
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Study Centers
These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.This study has 1 location
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Nutrition Sciences Department
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