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SUBMITTER: Bressa C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5302835 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bressa Carlo C Bailén-Andrino María M Pérez-Santiago Jennifer J González-Soltero Rocío R Pérez Margarita M Montalvo-Lominchar Maria Gregoria MG Maté-Muñoz Jose Luis JL Domínguez Raúl R Moreno Diego D Larrosa Mar M
PloS one 20170210 2
Physical exercise is a tool to prevent and treat some of the chronic diseases affecting the world's population. A mechanism through which exercise could exert beneficial effects in the body is by provoking alterations to the gut microbiota, an environmental factor that in recent years has been associated with numerous chronic diseases. Here we show that physical exercise performed by women to at least the degree recommended by the World Health Organization can modify the composition of gut micro ...[more]