A single microbe accumulating in the microbiome of elite athletes can enhance exercise performance in mice, paving the way to highly-validated performance-enhancing probiotics
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Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0485-4
Scheiman, J., Luber, J.M., Chavkin, T.A. et al. Meta-omics analysis of elite athletes identifies a performance-enhancing microbe that functions via lactate metabolism.Nat Med 25, 1104–1109 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0485-4