Is the Iranian Traditional Medicine warm and cold temperament related to Basal Metabolic Rate and activity of the sympathetic-parasympathetic system? Study protocol

Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders

Mohsen Naseri⁶  Kurosh Djafarian³  Mohammad Kamalinejad⁸  Ali Akbar Saboor-Yaraghi⁷  Taiebeh Mohammadi Farsani¹  Masoud Yunesian²  Saeed Hosseini⁵  Ahmadreza Dorosty Motlagh⁵  Mina Movahhed⁴  Gholamreza Mohammadi Farsani⁵ 

[1] Student School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Noorafshar Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Hospital, Tehran, Iran;School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Iranian Traditional Medicine Clinical trial Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran;Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Department of cellular and molecular Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

关键词: Thermic effect of food;    Basal metabolic rate;    Iranian traditional medicine;    Temperament;   

Others  :  1231268
DOI  :  10.1186/2251-6581-13-74

 received in 2014-01-14, accepted in 2014-06-18,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Our body’s energy demand consists one of the most essential pillars of medicine. Basically, human beings consume energy to maintain life’s vital processes and the expenditure of this total energy is affected by several factors. From the Iranian Traditional Medicine point of view, temperament is a basic concept that helps in the maintenance of health and treatment of disease. It could be assumed that there is a relationship between the factors affecting temperament and metabolism. In this study, this relationship is investigated by assaying the effect of Thyme and Sumac on the metabolic rate, activity of sympathetic–parasympathetic system and will also compare this effect between warm and cold temperamental people.

Methods

The present study will be conducted in two stages. 1. Based on the standardized questionnaire, the subjects will be divided into two groups including warm and cold temperament. Accordingly, basal metabolic rate, sympathetic-parasympathetic function, thyroid function, body composition and nutritional status of them will be compared. 2. Thermic effect of Thyme and Sumac will be measured by designing a double blind randomized crossover trial study. The subjects in each of the groups will be divided into two subgroups randomly and they will be given a single dose of Thyme or Sumac. They will be monitored for 4 hours at rest. At the beginning and end of the study blood samples will be taken and indirect calorimetry, body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure will be measured in half hour intervals. After a six day wash out period, the crossover investigations will be initiated. The data will be analyzed using the SPSS statistical software and using the equations for crossover clinical study.

Results

After doing study, results will be given.

Conclusion

This study is the first study that evaluates the relationship between human temperament and the metabolic rate, and also the effect of food temperament on some of the chemical, hormonal and functional factors of the body. We believe that the result of our study may create a new window in nutritional science that can be a step forward in improving health.

Trial registration

ClinicalTrial.gov NCT01643096.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Farsani et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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