Short-term physical exercise impacts on the human holobiont obtained by a randomised intervention study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Human well-being has been linked to the composition and functional capacity of the intestinal microbiota. As regular exercise is known to improve human health, it is not surprising that exercise was previously described to positively modulate the gut microbiota, too. However, most previous studies mainly focused on either elite athletes or animal models. Thus, we conducted a randomised intervention study that focused on the effects of different types of training (endurance and strength) in previously physically inactive, healthy adults in comparison to controls that did not perform regular exercise. Overall study duration was ten weeks including six weeks of intervention period. In addition to 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of longitudinally sampled faecal material of

SUBMITTER: Moitinho-Silva L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8170780 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature