ReviewCell reports. Medicine2024
Standardization of gut microbiome analysis in sports.
Review in Cell reports. Medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The performance gut: a key to optimizing performance in high-level athletes: a systematic scoping review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Pooled it
- From Mechanisms to Practice: Gut Microbiome-Based Strategies for Supporting Recovery in Elite Athletes.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Athlete or Season? Gut Microbiota Variance in Elite Volleyball Players: A Compositional Performance-Based Reanalysis.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Travel-Induced Circadian and Microbiota Disturbances: Implications for Athlete Health and Performance: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Profiling the Athletes' Gut Microbiome: A Critical Methodological Perspective on 16S Metabarcoding and Shotgun Metagenomics.Biology · 2026Review
- Meditation in Motion: Sport Type and Meditation Level Shape Gut Microbiota Profiles in Aikido and Tai Chi Practitioners.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Exploring the Gut Microbiome in Combat Sports: A Systematic Scoping Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Gut microbiota of sprint athletes: signature microbes and dietary links.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Mediterranean diet enhances endurance training adaptation through gut microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Standardizing microbiome research: interlaboratory validation of SOPs for sample preparation and DNA extraction from food and environmental ecosystems.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- The Athlete Gut Microbiome: A Narrative Review of Multi-Omics Insights and Next-Generation Probiotic Strategies.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Dynamic stability of gut microbiota in elite volleyball athletes: microbial adaptations during training, competition and recovery.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
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9 authors.
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Abstract
The gut microbiome plays a significant role in physiological functions such as nutrient processing, vitamin production, inflammatory response, and immune modulation, which, in turn, are important contributors to athlete health and performance. To date, the interpretation, discussion, and visualization of microbiome results of athletes are challenging, due to a lack of standard parameters and reference data for collection and comparison. The purpose of this perspective piece is to provide researchers with an easy-to-understand framework for the collection, analysis, and data management related to the gut microbiome with a specific focus on athletic populations. In the absence of a consensus on microbiome research in the sports field, we hope that these considerations serve as foundational "best practice." Adherence to these standard operating procedures will accelerate the path toward improving the quality of data and ultimately our understanding of the influence of the gut microbiome in sport settings.
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