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Title: Exercise Alters Our Microbiome The first sentence of the article: Exercise _may_ change the composition and activity of the trillions of microbes in our
by nyc111 9y ago
Title: Exercise Alters Our Microbiome
The first sentence of the article: Exercise _may_ change the composition and activity of the trillions of microbes in our guts...
Kind of a title bait.
Also, if you measure your microbiome every day you would see that it varies widely from day to day. So these results based on one measurement before the experiment and one measurement after are not reliable.
- agumonkey 9y agowhat are other MB influencing factors ? mood ? circadian rhythms ? diet ?
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoOh, is this going to be like "X changes your brain"? Where it turns out that doing literally anything changes your brain because it's designed to optimize against absolutely any environment.
- dcdanko 9y agoEven the composition of your microbiome itself can alter your brain chemistry (actually, it's usually called the gut brain axis). The study here used fecal transplant from lean to obese mice as well as a less invasive test; so it really does seems like a meaningful distinction.
- agumonkey 9y agobackfeednack
- dcdanko 9y agomood, circadian rhythm, ancestry, region of the world, diet type, infection, sex, certain diseases, and probably more!
- nyc111 9y agoA regime of antibiotics can kill good microbes as well the bad.
- agumonkey 9y agoInteresting considering the vast amount of AB we use ..
- rb808 9y agodiet mostly I think. There was a good recent article about fiber too. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/science/food-fiber-microbiome-inflammation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/science/food-fiber-microb...
- agumonkey 9y agothanks a lot