SuppVersity Classic: Performance Enhancing Gut Microbes - First Study to Show: Having (The Right?) Gut Bugs Doubles Exercise Endurance As a regular here at the SuppVersity, you are well aware of the far-reaching effects of having the right or wrong bacteria in your tummy. The claim that having the right bacterial make-up in the gut could have beneficial effects on your performance in the gym or on the track is something you should not believe too credulously. If we had a study to prove these benefits, things would be different, though - a study like the one a group of researchers from the National Taiwan Sport University are about to publish in the scientific bible of resistance training, the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (Hsu. 2014). In said study which is still available only as an accepted manuscript, Hsu et al. investigated the association of intestinal bacteria and exercise performance in specific pathogen-free (SPF), germ-free (GF), and Bacteroides fragilis (BF) gnotobiotic mice (animals in which only certain known strains of bacteria and other microorganisms are present). Read the full article @ suppversity/2014/08/performance-enhancing-gut-microbes.html
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 03:00:29 +0000
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