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A Randomized, Placebo‐Controlled, Double‐Blind Clinical Investigation on a Patent‐Pending KD120 Metabolically Activated Enzyme Formulation, N‐SORB, in Healthy Young Volunteers

2020· article· en· W3016527881 on OpenAlexaff
Sreejayan Nair, Derek T. Smith, Rama Nair, Berrnard W Downs, Steve Kushner, Debasis Bagchi, Manashi Bagchi

Bibliographic record

VenueThe FASEB Journal · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicChild Nutrition and Water Access
Canadian institutionsNutrasource
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicinePlaceboInternal medicineHematocritGastroenterologyEndocrinologyPathology

Abstract

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Impaired digestive competence and consequential sluggish immune and metabolic sequela are epidemic‐sized health problems in modern cultures. Since digestion is the first step of metabolism, implementing novel strategies to restore digestive and metabolic competence are important health priorities. N‐SORB is a patent‐pending KD120 multienzyme complex composed of metabolically activated natural digestive‐type enzymes encapsulated in a high‐potency phosphatidylcholine non‐GMO soy lecithin SK713 SLP absorption technology (Prodosome ® ). A randomized, double‐blind placebo‐controlled study was conducted in 46 male and female healthy volunteers (age: 25.8 ± 12.1 years) to assess the safety and efficacy of N‐SORB. Subjects received either N‐SORB (1 mL, twice daily) or the same amount of placebo for 90 consecutive days. Body weight, blood pressure, physical health, and complete blood chemistries including blood glucose, liver enzymes, and lipid profiles; and immune health, physical health, sleep quality and quality of life parameters were assessed pre‐ and post‐intervention. Serum cytokine levels were determined by using a Bio‐Plex Pro Human Cytokine 8‐plex assay and ELISA. Whole body composition analysis was performed by dual‐energy X‐Ray absorptiometry (DEXA) to determine body fat mass, lean mass and android and gynoid fat. Quality of life (QOL) and sleep quality were assessed using WHOQOL‐BREF and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire. Adverse events were strictly monitored. 40 subjects completed the study. Hematocrit, hemoglobin, mean corpuscular volume, platelets and lymphocytes provide evidence indicating consistent trends of improvement in the N‐SORB group. QOL parameters showed a small but significant improvement in the N‐SORB group. A significant increase was observed in AST levels in the placebo group at the end of 90 days of treatment, indicating increased liver distress. However, no increase was observed in the N‐SORB group. No significant changes in BUN, serum creatinine, ALP, ALT, and lipid profile were observed between the placebo and treatment groups before and after the 90‐day intervention. No adverse effects were reported. This 90‐day intervention study with N‐SORB clearly exhibited trends of improvement in RBC and immune parameters and found improvements in QOL and sleep quality scivnin already healthy volunteers. The N‐SORB treatment group experienced significant improvement in gastrointestinal functions, immune and metabolic parameters and other systemic improvements. No adverse events were reported. Support or Funding Information The Project was partially sponsored by VNI Inc, Lederach, PA

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.023

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.105
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designRandomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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