ArticleNutrients2020
The Effect of Athletes' Probiotic Intake May Depend on Protein and Dietary Fiber Intake.
Article in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of probiotic supplementation on faecal short-chain fatty acid concentrations in healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Nutrition journal · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of probiotic supplementation on the gut microbiota diversity in healthy populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics on gastrointestinal outcomes in healthy adults and active adults at rest and in response to exercise-A systematic literature review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Does Physical Inactivity Induce Significant Changes in Human Gut Microbiota? New Answers Using the Dry Immersion Hypoactivity Model.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Nutrition knowledge and dietary intake in male English Premier League academy players and their key stakeholders.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2026Article
- Travel-Induced Circadian and Microbiota Disturbances: Implications for Athlete Health and Performance: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Gut microbiome and functional adaptations to paleo and rational diets in professional athletes: a pilot study.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Functional signatures of the gut microbiome in middle-aged regular runners: insights from a metagenomic study.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Mental health and gut-brain crosstalk: implications for depression and Alzheimer's disease.Neuroscience applied · 2026Review
- Role of gut microbiota in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome: an updated comprehensive review from mechanisms to clinical implications.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2025Review
- Gut microbiome composition: link between sports performance and protein absorption?Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2024Article
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- Cardiovascular Disease and Exercise: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Applications.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- MicroRNA and Gut Microbiota: Tiny but Mighty-Novel Insights into Their Cross-talk in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Pathogenesis and Therapeutics.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2022Review
- Edible Flowers as a Source of Dietary Fibre (Total, Insoluble and Soluble) as a Potential Athlete's Dietary Supplement.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Fueling Gut Microbes: A Review of the Interaction between Diet, Exercise, and the Gut Microbiota in Athletes.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Review
- A Comparative Study of Selected Gut Bacteria Abundance and Fecal pH in Bodybuilders Eating High-Protein Diet and More Sedentary Controls.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Effects of Dietary Protein Levels on Bamei Pig Intestinal Colony Compositional Traits.BioMed research international · 2020Article
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Abstract
Studies investigating exercise-induced gut microbiota have reported that people who exercise regularly have a healthy gut microbial environment compared with sedentary individuals. In contrast, recent studies have shown that high protein intake without dietary fiber not only offsets the positive effect of exercise on gut microbiota but also significantly lowers the relative abundance of beneficial bacteria. In this study, to resolve this conundrum and find the root cause, we decided to narrow down subjects according to diet. Almost all of the studies had subjects on an ad libitum diet, however, we wanted subjects on a simplified diet. Bodybuilders who consumed an extremely high-protein/low-carbohydrate diet were randomly assigned to a probiotics intake group (
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