Some mice have microbes in their guts that motivate them to exercise more, according to a recent study. Could the same be true for humans?
To test whether eliminating the gut microbiome would affect the motivation to exercise Garland gave the athletic mice antibiotics. Itof super runners. The mice with depleted gut bacteria ran about 21 percent less every day, even though they continued to eat well and were otherwise unaffected.
"It's an insane amount of data," says Matthew Raymond Olm, a computational microbiologist at Stanford University. "This study is a really great example of big data working well to home in on something important and fundamental about the microbiome," says Olm. "We do see a certain heritability of exercise performance," says Thaiss."But it's just relatively small."
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