Recover: Dr. Jonathan Scheiman, PhD on the athletic gut microbiota | decoding the microbiome of elite athletes, bacteria that eat lactate and next generation probiotics to raise human potential
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This conversation is with Jonathan Scheiman, the co-founder and CEO of FitBiomics, a biotechnology startup that is sequencing the microbiome of elite athletes to identify and develop next generation probiotics that can optimize the health of everyone.
Jonathan played Division 1 college basketball at St. John’s University and then received his PhD in Biomedicine from NYU. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Wyss Institute at Harvard, where he started a research initiative leading to ground breaking discoveries that focused around one question: How can decoding the microbiome of the fittest people in the world benefit the health and wellness of everyone?
We cover:
- Commonalities between high achievement in sport and academics
- FitBiomics - decoding the microbiome of the world’s fittest people
- Performance factors influenced by the microbiome
- How our gut bacteria create metabolites that directly influence our health
- The symbiotic relationship between humans and microbes
- A bacteria in marathon runners that metabolizes lactate
- Probiotics to enhance human health and performance
- The gut-brain axis and athletic performance
- How leaky gut influences inflammation and recovery
- Bringing the lactate eating Veillonella probiotic to market
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Articles:
- Nature. 2022: Microbiome dependent gut-brain pathway regulates motivation for exercise
- J Int Soc Sports Nutr. 2020: The athletic gut microbiota
- J Int Soc Sports Nutr. 2019: ISSN Position Stand: Probiotics
- Nat Med. 2019: Meta-omics analysis of elite athletes identifies a performance enhancing microbe that functions via lactate metabolism
Connect:
- FitBiomics.com
- Instagram: @fitbiomics
- Twitter: @FitBiomics
Audio editing and processing by Wyatt Pavlik
Theme music by Ievgen Poltavskyi from Pixabay
*Please appreciate that any information discussed is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, always seek the opinion of a physician or qualified healthcare provider.*
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