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Exercising in the heat - harmful bacteria
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http://www.isowheysports.com.au/...rove_performance.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24150782


"Exercising in the heat causes digestive stress and, as a result, the walls of the gastrointestinal tract become weaker, allowing harmful bacteria from the digestive tract to leak into the bloodstream.
Once bacteria enters the bloodstream it can cause an immune system response which leads to reduced heat tolerance and impaired exercise performance."

Is the above the accepted scientific view or are they over egging the pudding? The study was done at 35C / 95F, which is pretty damn hot.

Is this an isolated study about probiotics improving performance?
Last edited by: Trev: Jan 26, 15 3:59
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Re: Excersising in the heat - harmful bacteria [Trev] [ In reply to ]
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From just reading the ncbi blurb, a couple things stand out:
only 10 total subjects, 5 each treatment (bad sign)
no mention of how they were chosen, but it was probably pretty stringent since the time to exhaustion numbers were pretty close (a good sign)
pretty big difference in time till exhaustion (interesting)
without reading the rest, I can't interpret the significance of the other findings
no obvious mechanism for performance increase - not what they thought

So...it certainly isn't a very strong study, but perhaps not incorrect. It might be enough to give it a whirl if you are so interested?
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Re: Excersising in the heat - harmful bacteria [dfroelich] [ In reply to ]
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dfroelich wrote:
From just reading the ncbi blurb, a couple things stand out:
only 10 total subjects, 5 each treatment (bad sign)
no mention of how they were chosen, but it was probably pretty stringent since the time to exhaustion numbers were pretty close (a good sign)
pretty big difference in time till exhaustion (interesting)
without reading the rest, I can't interpret the significance of the other findings
no obvious mechanism for performance increase - not what they thought

So...it certainly isn't a very strong study, but perhaps not incorrect. It might be enough to give it a whirl if you are so interested?


Yes agreed, a very small study but to be fair it was a placebo controlled and double blind crossover study.
Last edited by: Trev: Jan 26, 15 3:09
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Re: Exercising in the heat - harmful bacteria [Trev] [ In reply to ]
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Doesn't also take account of the probiotic status of the participants prior to supplementation or administration of a placebo.

I wouldn't worry about it Trev - didn't think you trained much or raced anyway? ;-)
Last edited by: zamm0: Jan 26, 15 6:31
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