App aims to turn back your biological clock
NCT ID NCT06738641
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tested a smartphone app called Pro2col Health that gives personalized tips on diet, exercise, and other habits. Researchers enrolled 50 middle-aged adults who were overweight and not very active. The goal was to see if using the app could improve their health habits, healthspan, and biological age compared to following standard health guidelines.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Pro2col Health smartphone application
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a simple digital tool to help people build healthier habits and potentially slow biological aging.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed study with only 50 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The app's effects on long-term health or aging are uncertain.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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50 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2024
- Finished
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Dec 2024
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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21 to 60 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Male or female, aged 21-60 years. * A BMI categorized as overweight (≥ 25) but not stage II obesity (≤ 35) * Daily steps \< 5,000. * Ownership of a smartphone device with either the Apple Health or Google Fit application. * Willingness to carry their phone in their pocket or on their person at all times to track steps during study. * Willing to download the Pro2col application and connect it with either the Apple Health or Google Fit application. * Willingness to complete physical tasks including a timed one-mile walk/run, regular or modified push-ups to exhaustion, and chair get-ups to exhaustion. * For the experimental group, subjects must be willing to follow the application protocol. * Able to read, understand, sign and date the informed consent document (English only) * Able and willing to comply with the scheduled visit(s) and study requirements. Exclusion Criteria: * Currently taking (within the past 30 days) ergogenic dietary supplements including, creatine, protein, amino acids, or stimulants other than caffeine (yohimbe, ephedrine, etc.) Currently taking performance enhancing drugs (testosterone or other anabolic-androgenic steroids), human growth hormone, insulin, etc. * History or current malignancy * Receiving chemotherapy agents or radiation treatments * Musculoskeletal disease (muscular dystrophy, arthritis, etc.) * Recent (\<3-months) musculoskeletal injuries * BMI \< 25 or \> 35 kg/m2 * Diagnosis of a terminal illness * Use of prescription medications that influence body composition (i.e., prescription hormone therapies, etc.) * History of alcohol abuse * History or current drug abuse * History or current diagnosis of depression. * History or current diagnosis of suicidal thoughts/ideation. * A score of ≥ 10 arbitrary units on the PHQ-9 during baseline testing. * History or current cigarette smoke (including vaping) within the past 14 days from the screening visit * Insulin-dependent diabetes and/or metformin use * Chronic kidney or liver disease * Has significant concurrent illnesses (controlled or uncontrolled), such as diabetes, lupus, epilepsy, or cardiac disorders, hepatitis B/C, HIV, serious mental health illness such as dementia or schizophrenia; psychiatric hospitalization in the past two years, or other, which in the opinion of the investigator, such conditions might be aggravated as a result of treatment * The investigator feels that for any reason the subject is not eligible to participate in the study * History of uncontrolled cardiovascular disease (i.e., myocardial infarction, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, peripheral vascular disease, other) * Developmental disability or cognitive impairment that would preclude adequate comprehension of the informed consent form and/or ability to follow study subject requirement and/or record the necessary study measurements * A family member of the investigator or an employee of the investigator * Participation in any other investigational study within 30 days prior to consent.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Applied Science and Performance Institute
Tampa, Florida, 33634, United States
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