About this episode

Dr. Sara Campbell discusses the relationship between exercise and the gut microbiome, highlighting the impact of antibiotics and new research findings.

Dr. Sara Campbell returns to discuss her lab's cutting-edge research on the bidirectional relationship between exercise and the gut microbiome — including why consumer gut tests oversimplify a complex ecosystem, how antibiotics devastate exercise capacity in animal models, and why single-microbe probiotics miss the bigger picture of functional guilds. She also shares new findings on short-chain fatty acids, amino acid metabolomics after antibiotic treatment, and the emerging neuromuscular junction hypothesis.

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Host: Dr. Mike T Nelson

Guest: Dr. Sara Campbell

Topics covered

• gut microbiome
• exercise
• antibiotics
• short-chain fatty acids
• metabolomics

Keywords

• gut microbiome
• exercise capacity
• antibiotics
• probiotics
• short-chain fatty acids
• metabolomics

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