Motivating the Gut to Walk, to Run

individual - self

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group- population

motivation: "I must go for run again  - regularly -  build up the distance to long ..." *Walk, run, do something ...	On long distance runs: the body produces lactate -  a by-product of muscles working in reduced oxygen. Guts of marathon runners nurture colonies of bacteria that can consume lactate. The bacteria transform lactate into propionate. Propionate "has been shown to increase the heart rate and maximise  the rate of oxygen consumption, making it essentially a natural performance-enhancing drug." Whipple, p.13.

Scheiman, J. et al. (2019) Meta-omics analysis of elite athletes identifies a performance-enhancing microbe that function, via lactate metabolism, Nature Medicine.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0485-4

Fitbiomics
https://www.fitbiomics.com/

*I'm sure I recall reading in Bortz's 'Next Medicine' stressing the importance of movement to independence.

My source:

Whipple, T. (2019) Gutsiest endurance atheletes have the running bug, The Times, 25 June, p.13.