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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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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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“A combined aerobic and resistance training exercise regime led to modest alterations in the composition and activity of the gut microbiota of the sedentary individuals.”
From The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis (2019) · cites this paper as Cronin et al., 2018
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“Another study reported that combined eight-weeks aerobic and resistance exercise induced modest shifts in gut metagenomes despite no changes in the diversity of taxa or metabolic pathways (Cronin et al., 2018).”
From Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women (2018) · cites this paper as Cronin et al., 2018
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“In contrast to our study, after eight-weeks of non-guided, combined aerobic and resistance exercise, Cronin et al. failed to detect significant changes in the gut microbiota composition or functions.”
From Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women (2018) · cites this paper as Cronin et al., 2018
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“Nevertheless, a prolonged protein supplementation did not affect the gut microbiome (Cronin et al., 2018) and therefore the real effect of reduced protein intake can be questioned.”
From Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women (2018) · cites this paper as Cronin et al., 2018
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“But interestingly, contradictory findings from the human exercise interventions have been recently presented (Allen et al., 2017; Cronin et al., 2018).”
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“Nevertheless, a prolonged protein supplementation did not affect the gut microbiome (Cronin et al., 2018)”
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“Interestingly, exercise was associated with reduced levels of phenylacetylglycine and trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) in urine.”
From Influence of the Gut Microbiome, Diet, and Environment on Risk of Colorectal Cancer (2020) · cites this paper as [114]
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“In the second study, 8 weeks of mixed aerobic and resistance exercise training improved cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition, but did not produce significant changes in the fecal microbiome114 or metabolites.”
From Influence of the Gut Microbiome, Diet, and Environment on Risk of Colorectal Cancer (2020) · cites this paper as [114]
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“Individuals in the whey protein supplementation-only group experienced a significant increase in the beta diversity of the gut virome.”
From The athletic gut microbiota (2020) · cites this paper as [199]
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“all bacteriophages (bacteria-targeting viruses) increased in the groups receiving whey protein were present in high relative abundance within the whey protein supplement.”
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“this change was mirrored in the combined exercise and protein supplementation group, suggesting a robust positive effect of whey protein on the taxonomic richness of the gut virome.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- 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
- ORCID
- Venue
- mSystems
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 2018-06-26
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 2379-5077 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5915698
- 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
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- 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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