Propionate Secreted by Gut Bacteria Enhances Exercise Capacity

In recent years, ever more evidence has accumulated for the gut microbiome to be influential on health throughout life, and on the pace of aging. The size of the effect is an open question at this time, but it isn’t unreasonable to think that it might be in the same ballpark as that of regular moderate exercise. The gut microbiome changes with age in characteristic ways, and this may produce chronic inflammation and other deleterious effects. Healthier older people tend to have lesser changes in their gut microbiome, a more youthful distribution of bacterial species. In animal studies, transplantation of gut microbe populations from young individuals to old individuals improves the health and life span of old individuals. For all this, it is far from clear as

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