2.1. Participants
Flow of the participants through the study is shown in Forty potential participants responded to a posting. Thirty-seven were subsequently offered participation in the program and were randomized to serve as controls (a healthy diet education session alone) or to receive a healthy diet education session and a guided 28-day metabolic detoxification program, including the allocated intervention. The healthy diet education session included a PowerPoint presentation on healthy dietary guidelines and sample recipes of healthy meals. The guided component of the detoxification program included an additional PowerPoint presentation with the information about the investigational product, directions, and dosing information for its consumption. All healthy participants (29 female, 8 male, age range 20–60 years) met the inclusion criteria and provided informed consent. None had any exclusion criteria (All research involving human participants was approved by the Advarra Institutional Review Board (IRB), protocol No. Pro00055058, and all clinical investigations were conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki. The study was registered on 