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A Prospective Metagenomic and Metabolomic Analysis of the Impact of Exercise and/or Whey Protein Supplementation on the Gut Microbiome of Sedentary Adults

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Cronin, Owen, Barton, Wiley, Skuse, Peter, Penney, Nicholas C., Garcia-Perez, Isabel, Murphy, Eileen F., Woods, Trevor, Nugent, Helena +8 more·2018·mSystems

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The gut microbiota of humans is a critical component of functional development and subsequent health. It is important to understand the lifestyle and dietary factors that affect the gut microbiome and what impact these factors may have. Animal studies suggest that exercise can directly affect the gut microbiota, and elite athletes demonstrate unique beneficial and diverse gut microbiome characteristics. These characteristics are associated with levels of protein consumption and levels of physical activity. The results of this study show that increasing the fitness levels of physically inactive humans leads to modest but detectable changes in gut microbiota characteristics. For the first time, we show that regular whey protein intake leads to significant alterations to the composition of the gut virome.

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Cronin, O., Barton, W., Skuse, P., Penney, N. C., Garcia-Perez, I., Murphy, E. F., Woods, T., Nugent, H., Fanning, A., Melgar, S., Falvey, E. C., Holmes, E., Cotter, P. D., O’Sullivan, O., Molloy, M. G., & Shanahan, F.
Affiliations
  • National University of Ireland (IE)
  • Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority (IE)
  • Imperial College London (GB)
  • Section of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Computational Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
  • Alimentary Health (Ireland) (IE)
  • Department of Medicine, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
  • APC Microbiome Ireland, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
Corresponding author
Cronin, Owen
Venue
mSystems
Published
2018-06-26
Volume
3
Issue
3
ISSN
2379-5077 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2802946611
Cited by
232
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 4
FWCI
7.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • mSystems (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Cork Open Research Archive (University College Cork, Ireland) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • T-Stór (Teagasc) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
Funders
  • Irish Centre for Arthritis Research and Education (N/A)
  • Science Foundation Ireland (SFI/12/RC/2273, SFI/11/PI/1137, SFI/13/SIRG/2160)
  • Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation (Sutherland-Earl Clinical Research Fellowship 2015)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Gastroenterology › Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
Keywords
gut microbiota, physical activity, whey protein supplementation, gut virome, sedentary adults, physical inactivity, microbiota composition, metabolomics

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