A performance-enhancing pill based on the gut bacteria of elite athletes is in the works (via CNBCMakeIt)
has identified a special type of gut bacteria found in elite athletes that may play a role in boosting their performance during rigorous exercise — and it could lead to a probiotic-like supplement that "regular joes" could use to enhance their performance in a few years.
"It might not seem like a huge number, but I definitely think its biologically significant and certainly if you ask a marathon runner, if they could increase their running ability by 13% — I think that they will be generally interested," Aleksandar Kostic, co-author of the study and an assistant professor of microbiology at the Joslin Diabetes Center tellsThe group later did a second analysis of 87 ultra-marathoners and Olympic-trial rowers and found similarly high levels of...
However, he has no firm timetable on when he expects the products will be ready for human trials. "Science takes time. Since its a probiotic, we're not necessarily reinventing the wheel here, we're just sort of disrupting and evolving it," he says. "Obviously, we want to do human studies but I think the future of fitness is here."
However, she says that the microbiome does play a much larger role in our health and well-being than we previously thought.
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