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More Carbohydrates Can Mean Better Performance. Your Gut Has to Be Ready for It.

Taking in and tolerating enough carbohydrate can improve endurance performance. Your muscles need the fuel, and your gut has to handle the plan.

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Athlete Microbiome

The Long Game: What B. adolescentis May Tell Athletes About Healthy Aging

A new University of Hawaiʻi study found that Bifidobacterium adolescentis was the strongest microbial predictor associated with a slower biological-aging...

Athlete Gut

Heat, Hydration, And The Athlete Gut: Why Hot Days Can Change The Plan

Heat changes more than pace and sweat rate. For athletes, hard efforts in the heat can also change digestion, fueling...

Athlete Microbiome

Lactate, Lactase, And The Athlete Gut: Why Element Starts With Testing

Lactate is not lactase. One is part of the hard-training story. The other helps explain the dairy question. Their two-word...

Digestive Comfort

Why Athletes Get Stomach Aches At The End Of Races

A finish-line stomach ache usually is not random. It is often the accumulated cost of intensity, heat, hydration, nerves, fueling,...