Exercise has the guts: How physical activity may positively modulate gut microbiota in chronic and immune-based diseases

Limited animal and human research findings suggests that exercise might have a beneficial role for health gut. Cardiorespiratory fitness correlates with health-associated gut parameters such as taxonomic diversity and richness. Physical exercise may augment intestinal microbial diversity through sev...

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Published in:Digestive and liver disease 2018-04, Vol.50 (4), p.331-341
Main Authors: Codella, Roberto, Luzi, Livio, Terruzzi, Ileana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Exercise
Gut microbiota
Type 1 diabetes
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Summary:Limited animal and human research findings suggests that exercise might have a beneficial role for health gut. Cardiorespiratory fitness correlates with health-associated gut parameters such as taxonomic diversity and richness. Physical exercise may augment intestinal microbial diversity through several mechanisms including promotion of an anti-inflammatory state. Disease-associated microbial functions were linked to distinct taxa in previous studies of familial type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D). An integrated multi-approach in the study of T1D, including physical exercise, is advocated. The present review explores how exercise might modulate gut microbiota and microbiome characteristics in chronic and immune-based diseases, given the demonstrated relationship between gut function and human health.
ISSN:1590-8658
1878-3562
DOI:10.1016/j.dld.2017.11.016