Using Microbes of Elite Athletes to Heal the Gut with Jonathan Scheiman, PhD of FitBiomics
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
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The Effects of Exercise on Athletes' Microbiomes
We work with athletes in a longitude no manner. We look at their microbiome pre and post exercise to see how it changes from performance to recovery phases. From there, we could see how athlete microbiomes are different by sport. I mentioned we published the discovery of this microorganism called Vienella that enriches in their gut after strenuous exercise. It basically eats lactic acid, converts it to short chain fatty acids and basically promotes endurance and run till exhaustion assays. Then we have another product on market called Nella. This is beneficial for gut health, but also has been clinically validated for sleep and improved quality of sleep. Sleep is almost the number one performance enhancing drug
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