NEWS YOU CAN USE: Performance Enhancing Gut Microbes – First Study to Show: Having (The Right?) Gut Bugs Doubles Exercise Endurance. “We could continue this discussion forever, but eventually the one result that may have a practical implication is the increased performance after mono-colonization in the germ-free mice. If nothing else, this result which happens to be the first evidence of performance enhancing effects of having a gut microbiome, would imply that you better recolonize your gut as soon as possible after a course of antibiotics. How the various different microbial status might regulate performance, on the other hand, will have to be elucidated in future studies – human (!) studies, that is.”