STUDY DESIGN
- Randomized-crossover, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, with N=20 endurance runners. (May start with up to 26 subjects to ensure that 20 subjects complete all study requirements). Subjects will ingest the supplement for 4 weeks prior to running 2 hours at high intensity, washout
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To conduct a randomized, three-arm pilot clinical trial to determine compliance and safety of daily consumption of tangerine tomato juice or red tomato juice.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To quantify total carotenoids, total lycopene (LYC), cis-LYC, trans-LYC, phytoene,