Sports Gut Health: Boost Performance, Endurance & Recovery

Sports gut health is more than a trend—it's a science-backed approach to boosting performance, endurance, and recovery. The gut microbiome influences how efficiently you extract energy from food, modulate inflammation, and mend tissues after tough workouts. For athletes, optimizing sports gut health translates to steadier energy during long sessions, fewer GI glitches, and faster recovery between sessions. This page shares science-backed strategies to tune the gut, fuel workouts effectively, and accelerate gains. InnerBuddies offers a white-label Gut Health Operating System that powers turnkey gut-testing products for brands and teams. The platform is modular and scalable, with a suite of features designed for performance-focused athletes: a Gut Microbiome Health Index (0–100) developed under an exclusive IP deal with EAFIT University in Colombia; a top 40 bacteria panel showing how your abundances compare to a healthy reference; categorized bacteria functions labeled as positive or negative with cohort comparisons; and Target Group analysis for Endurance Sport, Power Sport, Healthy Aging, and more. It also delivers Personalized nutrition advice based on 3-day food diaries versus stool data, plus Personalized probiotics and prebiotics recommendations tailored to your unique gut microbiome. Applied to sports gut health, these capabilities empower you to tailor fueling plans, optimize gut function around training blocks, and accelerate gains. By examining functional pathway activity, you can fine-tune fiber, polyphenol, and other nutrient intakes to support energy production, inflammation control, and recovery. The insights are practical, enabling you to compare your scores to a healthy cohort and adjust your diet and probiotic strategy to play to your strengths and address gaps. InnerBuddies serves both consumer-facing and B2B needs, delivering rigorous insights whether you want a personal plan or to power a brand’s testing program. Ready to explore sports gut health in depth? Learn more about InnerBuddies’ offerings and how they can power your performance journey: InnerBuddies microbiome test, InnerBuddies gut health membership, and InnerBuddies partner program. All of the options available to our B2B partners are also available directly for consumers.