VITAL: Vaccination, Immunity, Time-restricted Eating, Aging and Lifestyle

NCT07000708 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2025-09-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of a four-week time-restricted eating (TRE) intervention on autophagy, immune function, and vaccine response to a seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccines in older healthy subjects.

Conditions

  • Vaccination
  • Immunosenescence
  • Metabolism

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

TRE: Time-restricted eating

The daily eating pattern is reduced to 8 h/day. The first meal will be before 10:00 AM.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin

    collaborator UNKNOWN
  • Labor Berlin, Germany

    collaborator UNKNOWN
  • Experimental & Clinical Research Center Berlin

    collaborator UNKNOWN
  • University of Oxford

    collaborator OTHER
  • University of Cologne

    collaborator OTHER
  • Charite University, Berlin, Germany

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sebastian Hofer, Dr. rer. nat. · Clinical Research Unit, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité, Berlin, Germany & Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

  • Anna Katharina Simon, Prof. Dr. · Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-09-10
Primary Completion
2026-09-30
Completion
2027-01-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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