100 trillion bacteria. 2–20 million genes. A second genome that decides how your athletes recover, sprint and stay healthy. Here is the full evidence stack behind every Sports Biome report.
Athletes face intense training, travel, stress and extreme energy demand. These factors stress every body system — and amplify the microbiome's role. Modern elite assessment no longer relies on classical metrics alone.
| Bacterium | Effect | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Faecalibacterium prausnitzii | Beneficial | Butyrate production · anti-inflammatory · muscle recovery |
| Akkermansia muciniphila | Beneficial | Gut barrier reinforcement · metabolic health |
| Veillonella atypica | Beneficial | Lactate → Propionate conversion · endurance boost |
| Bifidobacterium longum | Beneficial | Immune support · infection protection |
| Lactobacillus species | Beneficial | Mucosal immunity · digestive health |
| E. coli (pathogenic) | Harmful | Pro-inflammatory · gut disturbance |
| Collinsella | Harmful | Increased inflammation · metabolic disruption |
| Bilophila wadsworthia | Harmful | Gut barrier damage · inflammation |
Defenders, midfielders and forwards show distinct microbial signatures — each demanding a tailored nutrition and supplementation strategy.
Beyond the individual report, Sports Biome benchmarks each athlete against the rest of your squad — and uses ML models trained on elite cohorts to project how their performance, recovery and injury risk will evolve over the next 4–12 weeks.
Each player is scored on six axes and ranked inside their own team and against position-matched elite reference cohorts.
Microbiome trajectories feed gradient-boosted models that forecast outcomes weeks before they show up on the pitch.
Models retrain quarterly on anonymized data from professional clubs and federations.
Personalized microbiome analysis is becoming indispensable for optimizing training and nutrition strategies. The teams that adopt it first will define the next decade of elite sport.