Journal
NUTRIENTS
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu13113999
Keywords
gut microbiota; physical activity; health; obesity; children; humans; non-communicable diseases
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- National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) BECAS Chile
- 'Fundacion Alfonso Martin Escudero' (Spain)
- Spanish Government Agencia Estatal de Investigacion-Juan de la Cierva-Incorporacion program [IJC2020-042739-I]
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Physical activity can help reduce inflammation and obesity progression, improve microbial variance, and maintain a healthy gut microbiota composition. However, further research is needed to fully understand the underlying mechanisms.
Physical activity, exercise, or physical fitness are being studied as helpful nonpharmacological therapies to reduce signaling pathways related to inflammation. Studies describing changes in intestinal microbiota have stated that physical activity could increase the microbial variance and enhance the ratio of Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes, and both actions could neutralize the obesity progression and diminish body weight. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of the literature describing the relationship between physical activity profiles and gut microbiota and in obesity and some associated comorbidities. Promoting physical activity could support as a treatment to maintain the gut microbiota composition or to restore the balance toward an improvement of dysbiosis in obesity; however, these mechanisms need to be studied in more detail. The opportunity to control the microbiota by physical activity to improve health results and decrease obesity and related comorbidities is very attractive. Nevertheless, several incompletely answered questions need to be addressed before this strategy can be implemented.
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