So, I recently made a science post regarding a new Cell paper showing - healthy diet promotes healthy bacteria in gut, which in turns program the immune cells to be anti-tumor. But you know what else promotes healthy gut bacteria. Yes, healthy lifestyle and exercise.

Working in a lab day and night these days, it does get hard for me to update my activity everyday. But nevertheless, I try to walk at least 10K steps everyday. Sometimes, I may forget to open actifit app too to monitor my activity, but here what google says I have done the whole past week.

Or even the whole last month.

Almost, 264K steps in a month, huh! That's not bad.

But you know what is still working against me. That's the stress. Stress is really bad for gut bacteria and health in general. Despite my careful low calorie diet and 10K steps in a day, I am still finding it hard to shed some Kgs. And the stress ain't going anywhere, until I finish my thesis.

I started writing again because on a personal level it's also a big stress buster for me. I may seem to be stuck here, but I am sure as hell trying to overcome.

Anyhow, that's my latest update as far as fitness is concerned. Leaving some reading material down there on role of exercise and stress.

Further reading

Exercise Modifies the Gut Microbiota with Positive Health Effects

Stress, depression, diet, and the gut microbiota: human–bacteria interactions at the core of psychoneuroimmunology and nutrition
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