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Whey Protein Supplementation Improves Nutritional Status, Glutathione Levels, and Immune Function in Cancer Patients: A Randomized, Double-Blind Controlled Trial
Plain-language guide to PMID 29565716 (2018): double-blind randomized controlled trial study of Glutathione in 42 patients.
Key Facts
- PMID
- 29565716
- Journal
- Journal of medicinal food
- Year
- 2018
- Study type
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Authors
- Bumrungpert A et al. (5 authors)
- DOI
- 10.1089/jmf.2017.4080
What This Study Did, in Plain Language
What Was Tested
Researchers studied Glutathione in this randomized controlled trial publication.
Clinical side effects from medical therapy play an important role in causing malnutrition among cancer patients.
The present study determined the effects of whey protein supplementation on nutritional status, glutathione (GSH) levels, immunity, and inflammatory markers in cancer patients in Thailand.
Who Took Part
The study group was 42 patients.
By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were adults and middle-aged adults, both men and women.
A total of 42 cancer patients (41-63 years old) who received intravenous chemotherapy were randomized in a double-blind controlled trial at the National Cancer Institute in Thailand.
How the Study Was Run
The researchers set it up as a randomized and double-blind study.
Because people in this Glutathione study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.
Neither the patients nor the staff measuring them knew who was on Glutathione, so expectations could not easily colour the readings.
Nutritional status, GSH levels, immunity, and inflammatory markers were assessed at baseline, 6, and 12 weeks.
What Was Measured
The present study determined the effects of whey protein supplementation on nutritional status, glutathione (GSH) levels, immunity, and inflammatory markers in cancer patients in Thailand.
The subject headings attached to it are Glutathione, Neoplasms, Nutritional Status and Whey Proteins.
The authors tagged it with the keywords albumin, cancer and immunity.
What This Means in Plain Language
The paper is a randomized and double-blind study of Glutathione in 42 patients.
The publication is from 2018 (Journal of medicinal food), a journal based in United States.
More context: the Glutathione compound page, all human trials.
Our Notes on the Compound
Glutathione: The body's main antioxidant.
Related Pages
Source: PubMed record. This explanation is written by PeptideWhiz from the public record. For research and education only. Not medical advice; no dosing information is given.