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Pascoe: We’ve gotten approval from the university to open the AU Gastrointestinal Research Center.
We’re very excited about it; it’s a collaborative effort between the Department of Kinesiology
and Vet Med and others, we’re hoping, that might join us. It gives us an opportunity
to look at a lot of the health and the disease issues that are related to the gut. We deal
quite a bit with hydration, hydration issues that we may see in healthy and disease state
or sports. All of that has to be absorbed through the stomach. Additionally, absorption,
when we talk about fuel and the various issues of what nutrition we eat, that has to deal
with both growth and development, but it also has a very important role as far as medications
and our absorption of medications. So, when we do take these medications, how helpful
or what ability do we have in order to put those into our system. It’s also important
to understand that the gut is the largest immune response, so it handles a lot of the
stress, and the stress that can be related to various different stressors, sleep disorders,
there are various stress issues related to that. So, we have a really good opportunity
both from a nutrition point of view, probiotic or supplement point of view, to really look
at medical care whether it be related to pre-treatment, preventative medicine, treatment where we’re
talking about it right there, or recovery. Sorokulova: I hope that our work now will
help to liberate some approaches to some forms of treatment with this bacteria to prevent
these stressors or treat if possible or needed. In the future, I hope we will present new
probiotic preparations, new probiotics, which can be used not only for athletes, but for
all people who need them. Vodyanoy: Ironically, our feeling of wellbeing
and health and energy sits in our guts. And there are special structures in the gut, in
intestinal walls, which have special functions. There are special cells and their structures
and their functions determine our wellbeing. And as Dr. Sorokulova just told us, there
are some special interactions between these structures, intestinal structures, and bacteria
play an important role in our wellbeing, in our energy, in our endurance and many other
functions of our system. What we can do, we can use our microscopic system to analyze
and see these structures which cannot be seen other ways. In our microscopic system, you
can see real-life and very vivid interaction between bacteria and intestinal walls and
cells and structures there. This will probably be our contribution, to understand the mechanism,
interaction of bacteria with intestinal cells to understand the mechanism of wellbeing.
Pascoe: I think the really positive portion about this center is there’s good opportunity,
not only with Vet Med and Kinesiology, but anyone else that wants to get involved with
this gut research and the various problems that are related are or at least maybe initiated
by the gut dysfunctions.