Gut-Healing diet may boost recovery after critical illness
NCT ID NCT06020703
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether a diet rich in fermented foods (like yogurt and kimchi) is tolerable and can improve quality of life for survivors of critical illness, including severe COVID-19. The goal is to help restore gut health and reduce inflammation. The study involves 40 participants who have been in the ICU and have ongoing mental or physical impairments.
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Study facts
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- 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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About 40 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Feb 2024
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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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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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: \- patients who have survived critical illness, including severe COVID, and are at risk for mental health morbidity/long COVID (spent \>48 hours in the ICU or had COVID requiring ICU stay) who have a smartphone, are enrolled into the Mayo PICS clinic, and have at least one PICS-related impairment. Cognitive impairment, if present, has to be in the mild range to ensure patient can provide consent and follow study instructions Exclusion Criteria: \- History of dementia, mental retardation, psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, patients not expected to survive the hospital stay or non-English speaking, participants not able to tolerate foods by mouth or those with potential contraindications to such diet (chronically immunosuppressed including organ transplant recipients; those with neutropenia or currently undergoing chemotherapy, those taking Monoamine oxidase inhibitors).
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Mayo Clinic Minnesota
Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, United States
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