Elite Runners' Microbes Make Mice Mightier
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🗓️ 24 June 2019
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| 0:37.0 | The microbes in our intestines help keep us healthy, strengthening our immune systems and promoting metabolism. But they may also give us a leg |
| 0:45.2 | up when it comes to moving our legs up and down again rapidly and repeatedly. Because a new study |
| 0:51.3 | finds that mice that are fed bacteria isolated from elite athletes |
| 0:56.2 | log more time on the treadmill than other mice that are treated only to bacteria found in |
| 1:00.8 | yogurt. |
| 1:01.8 | The results appear in the journal Nature Medicine. |
| 1:04.0 | Alexander Kostick, a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School, was initially interested |
| 1:09.8 | in how the gut microbes of people with diabetes might differ from folks without the condition. |
| 1:15.3 | The idea being that tweaking the microbiome might help to treat the disease. |
| 1:20.2 | But the question of enhancing overall health and fitness can also come from the other direction. |
| 1:25.0 | But here the question was more, what's unique in the microbiome with someone who is supremely healthy |
| 1:31.4 | and can we use that feature of the microbiome to transfer into other people |
| 1:37.0 | to potentially make them healthier? |
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