A Single Session of Exercise Alters 9,815 Molecules in Our Blood - NY Times

An article in the New York Times called attention to a recent study that investigated the biochemical / molecular changes of the body with exercise. The study, published in Cell, used multi-omics to catalog and quantify over 9000 different molecules that changed with exertion.

As I noted in a previous entry, in mice, the gut microbiota plays a role in the the body’s response to exercise. I wonder what percentage of the molecular changes noted in humans are influenced or mediated by the microbiome.

The data presented is exciting, although I need to learn more about the author’s significant list of conflicts of interest. Multi-omics of exercise is an area I will definitely keep an eye on.