Research discovering the wide effects of the Microbiome on our health is growing exponentially, as predicted. Practically ALL health issues are linked to how your gut bacteria is shaped by the food you eat and the chemicals you insult them with. If a particular link between the Microbiome and a health issue has not been found, it will soon be.
The reference below shows that even how you perform during exercise has to do with gut bacteria. This was hinted at when the Brain-Gut connection was noted decades ago. Back then I wrote a blog along these lines:
“Hello, boss, I can’t come to work today. I caught a bug—my butt is too big. I think it’s the obesity bug.”
Reference
Researchers identify bacteria tied to athletic performance
“NPR (6/24, Lambert) reports on its website that researchers “identified a group of bacteria that are more common in athletes, especially after exercise, and may play a role in enhancing athletic performance,” and the researchers then “isolated this bacterial strain from elite runners, put it into the colons of lab mice and found that these human-derived bacteria boosted the mouse’s performance on a treadmill exertion test by 13%.” The findings were published in Nature Medicine.
HealthDay (6/24, Norton) reports the “researchers found that the bacteria Veillonella were much more common in the guts of marathoners, compared to sedentary people. And the bugs rose in abundance soon after the runners finished a race.”
