Conditions: Colorectal Cancer
Keywords: ginger Zingiber officinale Cancer Risk Reductive Eicosanoids Colorectal Cancer Inflammation
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 30
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to determine if ginger root extract when taken daily for 28 days is able to decrease levels of inflammatory chemicals called eicosanoids in the gut tissue of people who are at normal risk and those at increased of developing colorectal cancer compared to people taking placebo.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Ginger Root Extract (Pure Encapsulations) intervention 2: Placebo Capsule
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 2.0 g per day (10:1 extract) intervention 2: 2.0 g per day

Protocol document: