Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- 1. Healthy, overweight or obese individuals.
Exclusion Criteria:
- 1. Participants must have a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 27 kilograms per meter squared.
- 2. No history of drug or alcohol dependency. Must be current non-smokers, and are required to have a history of less than 5 pack years of smoking.
- 3. No history of working irregular day and night hours, regular night work, or rotating shift work for the 1 year prior to the study. In addition to this, individuals must not have traveled across more than 1 time zone during the 3 months prior to the study.
- 4. Chronobiologic and sleep disorders.
- 5. Diseases of the cardiovascular system.
- 6. Hypertension. Individuals will be allowed to be normotensive (resting systolic blood pressure of \<140/90 mmHg, measured on more than one occasion) or uncomplicated stage 1 hypertension (systolic BP between 140 and 159 mmHg or a diastolic BP between 90 and 99 mmHg).
- 7. Disorders of the respiratory system.
- 8. Pre-diabetes/Diabetes. For participants who have a fasting blood glucose level that is greater than or equal to 100 mg/dL, the investigators will measure hemoglobin A1c to exclude for diabetes (HbA1c\>5.7%).
- 9. Disorders of the kidney and urinary tract.
- 10. Infectious diseases.
- 11. Disorders of the gastrointestinal system.
- 12. Disorders of the immune system.
- 13. Disorders of the hematopoietic system.
- 14. Neoplastic diseases.
- 15. Endocrine and metabolic diseases.
- 16. Neurologic disorders.
- 17. Must not be participating in another research study that would influence their safe participation in the study.
Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years to 40 Years (ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Yes