Multi-day resilience to exercise-heat stress and adaptation study
Researchers are looking for volunteers for a study of how men and women tolerate combined exercise-heat stress. Physically fit men and women ages 18-45 may be eligible to participate.
This study involves at most, 16 days of visits to the laboratory after screening procedures. This may be as few as 14 days for completion of all aspects of the study; there are multiple options for participation in different aspects of the study that vary in time committed and corresponding compensation. During your visits, you will be asked to complete cognitive and physical performance tests and exercise in a hot and humid laboratory space each day whilebeing monitored. You will have standard measures of fitness and body composition measured, such as VO2maxtesting and body fat testing by DXA. You may also be selected to participate in an intervention, if randomly assigned, to be asked to consume an antioxidant berry supplement or creatine supplement every day during the study to understand whether supplements change (improve, have no effect, or impair) response to exercise-heat stress. The information from this DoD-funded study will be important to understanding men and women’s performance in the military, elite sports, occupational settings, and in cases in which people are exposed to hot and humid environments with physical activity requirements.
Some eligibility restrictions related to safety apply. For more information, please contact Gabrielle Brewer at gabrielle.brewer@uconn.edu. The principal investigators (PI) for this study are Dr. Douglas Casa and Dr. Elaine C. Lee. Please put STUDY VOLUNTEER H21-0108 in the subject line of the email. IRB #H21-0108
For more information, contact: Gabrielle Brewer at phonegabrielle.brewer@uconn.edu/email