814 - Does Exercise Impact Gut Health? The Evidence.
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
4.6 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Lucy Mailing answers the question, "Does exercise impact gut health?" Inspired by her journey with chronic eczema, Dr. Mailing started looking into the gut-skin connection to improve her symptoms. Seeing this connection spurred her research and career in gut health, the microbiome, and nutrition science.
When it comes to improving gut health, evidence shows exercise can help. But, how much exercise is needed? What type of exercise intensity is most effective? What diets and supplements can be paired with exercise to enhance gut health?
Join the discussion with Dr. Mailing and me as we discuss fine-tuning your exercise regime to benefit your gut microbiome.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
04:31 If You're Not Exercising Enough
09:42 If You're Exercising Too Much
18:30 Exercise Benefits on the Microbiota
24:20 Optimal Frequency, Intensity, & Duration
25:22 Fiber: Overhyped?
31:36 Diets
34:30 Butyrate
38:50 Results Take Time
42:16 Fungus Isn't Always Bad
44:18 The Best Fungal Testing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
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| 0:30.6 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or |
| 0:36.0 | treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information |
| 0:39.6 | without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey, everyone. Today I had a great |
| 0:45.6 | conversation with Dr. Lucy mailing on the topic of exercise and how it modulates your gut microbiota. |
| 0:53.4 | And modulates probably the best term to use. Sure, |
| 0:56.3 | we know that exercise will improve a whole cast of issues, constipation, IBS, inflammatory bowel |
| 1:02.7 | disease, metabolism. But there seems to be this interesting modulation where certain populations, |
| 1:08.6 | let's say, who are overweight and produce too much buterate, the short chain fatty acid, once they exercise, that returns to normal, whereas |
| 1:16.6 | sedentary people who don't have enough buterate start exercising, they see better |
| 1:20.6 | butterate production. So truly a modulatory impact that we get from exercise. |
| 1:25.6 | We also take a tangent very productively into lab testing, |
| 1:30.9 | what tests to use, what are the limitations, and from there we pivot over into a discussion on |
| 1:37.1 | fungus and the gut mycombe or the world of fungus in the gut, which are not all bad and very important. |
| 1:46.8 | I'm glad that we hit this in the conversation, that like bacteria, fungus should be cultivated |
| 1:52.6 | to have a healthy environment and not be looked at things that need to be killed or zapped |
| 1:59.0 | with antibiotics, antifungals, or antimicrobial therapy. |
| 2:02.5 | So, great conversation. Lucy, thank you so much. And here we go to the show. |
| 2:09.3 | Hey, everyone. This is Dr. Roushio. I am here today with Dr. Lucy Mailing, who I've been looking |
| 2:13.6 | forward to chatting with you for quite some time. As I was saying, just a second ago off air, I've come across your work in various capacities because we think about similar |
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