SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

Have you ever felt nauseated after a workout? Or does your protein supplement gives you diarrhea only if you take it right after a workout? Both can be related to the toll  exercise can take on the integrity of your intestinal tract. To be honest, I was quite surprised that I did not get a hell lot of hatemail in response to the the 'MSG heals the gut study' I posted last Sunday ... Be that as it may, I feel sort of awkward to have opened Pandora's box without proving you with some betters tools than mono-sodium glutamate (MSG) to seal the box, or rather your leaky gut, again. Therefore I decided to post this mini-feature on a particular issue all of us will be dealing with: An exercise induced increase in gut permeability. As you are going to see, there are a lot of similarities to the 'classic' leaky gut, which is often implicated in the etiology of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases. In order to understand these similarities, but also the few, yet importan...

Yogurt is probably the best known probiotic food, but there are way more traditional fermented foods that have been part of the human diet for centuries. No wonder that the combination of being "ancestral" and being supported by the latest research renders them so appalling to the "paleo community". I do yet suspect that the average gymbro will be more inclined to buy a pill or powder than Kefir, Kimchi and Kraut... and why not? It's convenient and as long it works... it does, doesn't it? The gut microbiome and its effect on metabolic and overall health are all the rave these days. As I already pointed out in previous posts on this matter , we are yet only beginning to grasp the complex interactions between the nasty and not so nasty intestine and the way we look, feel or perform. That this does not hinder hundreds of companies to make all sorts of partly warranted, partly unwarranted claims about the myriad benefits the ingestion of their product would ...