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Trial reportThe Journal of physiology2025

Effects of a combined energy restriction and vigorous-intensity exercise intervention on the human gut microbiome: A randomised controlled trial.

Russell G Davies, Laura A Wood, Aaron Hengist, Ciara O'Donovan, Wiley Barton, Fiona Crispie, Jean-Philippe Walhin, Maria A Valdivia-Garcia, Isabel Garcia-Perez, Gary Frost and 6 more

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The Journal of physiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Russell G DaviesDepartment for Health, Centre for Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8429-5795
Laura A WoodDepartment for Health, Centre for Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Aaron HengistDepartment for Health, Centre for Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4573-7105
Ciara O'DonovanAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Wiley BartonAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-0686-3491
Fiona CrispieTeagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Cork, Ireland.
Jean-Philippe WalhinDepartment for Health, Centre for Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8103-5541
Maria A Valdivia-GarciaSection of Nutrition Research, Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK.
Isabel Garcia-PerezSection of Nutrition Research, Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK.
Gary FrostSection of Nutrition Research, Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK.
Orla O'SullivanAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Paul D CotterAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Javier T GonzalezDepartment for Health, Centre for Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
James A BettsDepartment for Health, Centre for Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Françoise KoumanovDepartment for Health, Centre for Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Dylan ThompsonDepartment for Health, Centre for Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6312-1518

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/P002927/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolic health improvements in response to exercise and energy restriction may be mediated by the gut microbiome, yet causal evidence in humans remains limited. We used a 3-week exercise and energy restriction intervention to examine changes to the gut microbiome in otherwise healthy sedentary men and postmenopausal women with overweight/obesity. Intervention participants (n = 18) reduced habitual energy intake by 5000 kcal/week and expended 2000 kcal/week in addition to habitual physical activity through treadmill walking at 70% V̇O

Indexed as

Caloric RestrictionExerciseGastrointestinal MicrobiomeObesityAdultAgedFecesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMuscle, Skeletalmetabolismmicrobiomeweight loss

Identifiers

PMID40828642
PMCPMC12704030

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