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Your gut microbiome is linked to your fitness and biological age

Altering the gut microbiome via probiotics could one day help people to maintain a certain level of fitness and reduce the rate of their biological ageing

By Christoph Schwaiger

2 August 2023

The gut microbiome is increasingly being linked to different aspects of health, which may include a person’s fitness and their biological age

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The diversity of microbes in the gut could affect a person’s fitness and their biological age. Better understanding this may one day lead to probiotics that alter the gut’s microbial make-up to promote health.

at the Hungarian University of Sports Science and his colleagues studied 80 amateur rowers, aged 38 to 84, who participated in the 2019 World Rowing Masters Regatta in Velence, Hungary.

The rowers, whose training regimens ranged from…

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