The Little Book of Irish Science SFI Little Book of Irish Science | Page 83

Irish rugby team show
you really are what you eat
In a world first report linking exercise to gut microbe
diversity scientists at the Science Foundation Ireland
funded APC Microbiome Institute at University College
Cork have studied the gut profile of 30 elite athletes
from the Irish rugby football team. The study revealed a
connection between exercise and protein consumption
to the diversity of microbial colonies in their guts, an
important revelation as gut diversity is known to be
associated with superior health and a reduction in
several diseases and syndromes, including obesity.
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