Exercise Alters Our Microbiome. Is That One Reason It’s So Good for Us?

Exercise Alters Our Microbiome.  Is That One Reason It’s So Good for Us?

New York Times

By Gretchen Reynolds

Exercise may change the composition and activity of the trillions of microbes in our guts in ways that could improve our health and metabolisms over time, a new study finds.

Click on the picture above to check out the full story on our research that’s featured in a January 3, 2018 article in the New York Times.

Interested in reading our final published manuscript?  You can find that here:  https://insights.ovid.com/pubmed?pmid=29166320

Allen JM, Mailing LJ, Niemiro GM, Moore R, Cook MD, White BA, Holscher HD, Woods JA. Exercise-induced shifts in the gut microbiome and associated metabolites are dependent on obesity status. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 2017. DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001495