To learn if diet can enhance the microbes (such as bacteria and viruses) found in your gut and improve the body's immune response to the influenza (flu) vaccine.
Primary Objectives: --To determine the feasibility of two dietary intervention strategies focused on fiber-rich and prebiotic foods prior to seasonal influenza vaccination. Feasibility is defined as ≥ 80% of subjects being compliant with the intervention. Secondary Objectives: * To evaluate the effects of each dietary intervention on the composition, diversity and function of the gut microbiome. * To assess the effects of each dietary intervention on response to influenza vaccination as measured by vaccine-specific immune response. * To assess the effects of each dietary intervention on systemic immunity. Exploratory Objectives: * To interrogate the overlap between the identified gut microbial and dietary patterns associated with vaccine response and those associated with excellent or poor responses to cancer immunotherapy (from our own published work and internal cohorts). * To identify components and determinants of the gut microbiome that could be modulated to enhance vaccine response. * To determine how modulation of the gut microbiome can be achieved through fiber and prebiotic-focused dietary changes.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
31
Participants are assigned to the high fiber diet, all meals and snacks will be provided to participants during the study. This diet includes fruits, vegetables and whole grains, a maximum of 18 oz. cooked red meat (including beef, pork, and lamb) per week, and little or no processed meats or added sugars.
Participants are assigned to the prebiotic food enriched diet, participants will receive 2 prepared snacks and 1 meal component (a key prebiotic ingredient to incorporate into meals and simple recipes) each day. Participants will also receive a handout that includes key prebiotic foods to incorporate into your own diet.
M D Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States
Feasibility of dietary intervention prior to seasonal influenza vaccination defined as ≥ 80% of subjects being compliant with the intervention in the cohort
Time frame: through study completion an average of 1 year.
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