Our guest today is Christoph A. Thaiss the Microbiology Department of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who is a finalist of the 2023 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for his essay entitled "A microbiome exercise: gut-brain connections drive the motivation to work out.”
Details about the prize-winning essay
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi6329
Essay: A microbiome exercise
Science, 381, 6653, p. 38, 2023.
DOI: 10.1126/science.adi6329
Related research
L. Dohnalová et al A microbiome-dependent gut-brain pathway regulates motivation for exercise.
Nature, 612(7941):739-747, 2022.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05525-z. E