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Titagen® for total wellness: results from a randomised, placebo controlled clinical study on adults for osteoarthritis, improvement in skin, nail and health

2025· article· W4416796498 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
V. T. Sriraam, S. Shakthi

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Research in Medical Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldMedicine
TopicSkin Protection and Aging
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPlaceboNail (fastener)Clinical studyOsteoarthritisNutraceuticalAdverse effectClinical trial

Abstract

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Background: Fish collagen has been vital in functional food with natural bioactive compounds to offer potential therapeutic benefits. Titan biotech limited (TBL) has studied Titagen® as a nutraceutical to evaluate improvement in in adults looking to improve skin, hair, nail health and osteoarthritis. Methods: Two randomised, double blinded, placebo controlled clinical studies were conducted on Titagen® of TBL. 48 adults were studied in each of the studies for a period of 90 days. Study 1 (SHN study) was conducted on adults looking to improve skin, hair and nail health with Titagen® dose of 5g per day for 3 months-assessed, using assessments and questionnaire to evaluate skin improvement, hair growth and nail health. Study 2 (OA study) was conducted on adults with osteoarthritis with Titagen® dose of 10 g per day for 3 months-evaluated using assessments and questionnaires. Results: Results showed that Titagen® was better than placebo with statistically significant results in skin health (59.72% vs -51.39), 60 second hair comb test (27.15% vs 2.35%), hair health (18.06% vs -43.06%), nail health (62.50% vs -33.33%), Western Ontario and McMaster universities arthritis index (WOMAC) parameters (39.73% vs 1.72%), pain VAS (70.86% vs 4.21%), quality of life questionnaire (20.83 scores vs 7.31 scores), global impression of change scale results (2.75 vs 4.40). There were no adverse events related to Titagen® and is deemed safe for daily consumption. Conclusions: The clinical studies proved 5 g Titagen® for 90 days improved skin, hair and nail health, 10 g Titagen® for 90 days reduced pain, stiffness in joints and improved quality of life living with osteoarthritis.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.071
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.035
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.712
Threshold uncertainty score0.973

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0710.035
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.117
GPT teacher head0.523
Teacher spread0.406 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designRandomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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