This new overfeeding study is designed to confirm the energy gap and propose mechanistic hypothesis.
A 2-week overfeeding (daily consumption of one bottle of Renutryl® Booster (600 kcal, 30 g protein, 72 g carbohydrate, 21 g fat) on top of the dietary intake) is performed to compare 15 women and men in each CT group (Body Mass Index [BMI] < 18.5 kg/m2) to their controls (BMI 20–25 kg/m2). Bodyweight, food intake, energy expenditure (canopy, calorimetric chamber and Actiheart), body composition (DXA), appetite regulatory hormone profiles after a test meal, proteomics, metabolomics, urinary metabolic profiles, stool microbiome and lipids, fat and muscle transcriptomics are monitored before and after overfeeding.
Data inter-linking will be able to be established with results of this study. The findings could possibly open to therapeutic approaches to help CT patients to gain weight as well as provide a better understanding of energy regulation with regard to treat obesity (resistance to weight loss), a mirror image of CT (resistance to weight gain).