Flex Diet Podcast

S2_EP_9 Gut Health and Exercise: Interview with Dr. Sara Campbell

Episode Summary

Dr. Mike and Dr. Sara Campbell take an in-depth look at exercise and the gut. Topics include everything from the microbiome, nutrition, what foods may be useful - what foods to avoid. Also, how the gut is related to all sorts of things - including insulin sensitivity and body composition.

Episode Notes

Bugs change in response to exercise and exercise can change gut bugs.

Reduction in microbiota can cause exercise to suffer in mice - discussion of recent studies

How can humans test themselves based on the mouse study

How microbes adapt to training stimulus

How long does it take microbiota to change and keep that change from reverting to baseline

Gut bugs and inulin in type 2 diabetics. 

Classification of microbes

Where more research is needed in regards to resistance training and HIIT

Top two things people should be doing and one thing most people are probably not doing that they should

How you go about data collection in a lab

Referenced studies and articles: 

Impact of Protein Intake in Older Adults with Sarcopenia and Obesity: A Gut Microbiota Perspective

FitBiomics CEO: ‘First athlete-derived probiotics to hit the market within a year, if not sooner’

Food for thought about manipulating gut bacteria

Host genotype and exercise exhibit species-level selection for members of the gut bacterial communities in the mouse digestive system

Gut bacteria selectively promoted by dietary fibers alleviate type 2 diabetes