I don’t often write about mice, but I feel compelled to draw your attention to some exceptional research by the University of Pennsylvania in the United States which affects us, too.
Just like humans, some mice enjoy regular exercise (running on their wheel), while others are idle. The researchers failed to find genetic differences between the groups, but what did emerge was a major difference in their microbiome, i.e. the microbes that live in the gut.
The microbiome of the sporty mice created compounds that stimulated the reward centre in their brains after exercise.
When they were given antibiotics to eradicate the microbiome, the mice stopped running. Then, when their microbiome was restored using stool samples, they started running again.
The stage where we need to care for our microbiomes from birth is ever closer.
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