Can your gut get you to exercise?

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IT WORKS FOR MICE. DO MICROBES MAKE US MOVE? Friday, March 24, 2023

In today’s newsletter, we examine promising exercise-stimulating behaviors, discover hidden shipwrecks, learn a popular workout was created behind bars ... and brace for an asteroid passing Saturday.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT CLARK, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION Get up, get up off that floor! Four of five of us don’t get enough exercise, even though a sedentary lifestyle is our fourth biggest killer. Could something in your gut get you moving? Something you eat, or some microbiome magic? New studies are pointing to the gut microbiome in some mice—and researchers are eager to extend their work to us. Read the full story here. (Above, a Paralympian sprinter’s biomechanics are analyzed.) Please consider getting our digital report and magazine by subscribing here.

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MUSEUM OF ANCIENT SHIPS, PISA

These mysterious ancient shipwrecks were found far from the sea (Pictured above, the remains of a man and a dog, discovered below a 2,000-year-old shipwreck.) An asteroid is passing by Earth on Saturday. What we need to know. This exercise phenomenon began in a prisoner-of-war camp How sleep rules our lives—and what you don’t know about it Bionic bodies? Delay death with these tech advances These orcas are killing sharks—and removing their livers

Paganism is growing—here’s where to discover its traditions This is the real Jesus, according to archaeologists Rare ‘blonde’ penguin discovered off Antarctica. See it.

WHERE IN THE WORLD?

VIDEO BY @BERTIEGREGORY Bait ball: Off the coast of Costa Rica, Nat Geo Explorer Bertie Gregory was looking to film spotted dolphins feeding on what's called bait balls of mackerel (pictured above). And he did—with an added surprise: yellowfin tuna were doing the same. Foreign commercial fishing had nearly wiped out the local tuna population until a recent law pushed the fleets farther offshore. With big tuna back, the undersea wildlife is rebounding. Watch more of Epic Adventures With Bertie Gregory on Disney+. AN UNDERWATER OBSESSION

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

PHOTOGRAPH BY RONAN O'CONNELL Carnage turned comfort? What used to be a savage pirate hangout and a brutal prisoner-of-war camp is now an upscale vacation destination in Singapore. The country's government converted the "island of death" to a dreamlike getaway in the 1970s (pictured above in the foreground from a cable car). And yes, Sentosa Island was a setting in the film Crazy Rich Asians. POWS TO BACHELOR PARTIES

LAST GLIMPSE

PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIELLE AMY Thirsty trees: The Yatir Forest (pictured above) is 12 square miles with 4 million trees—mainly Aleppo pine—and is Israel's largest human-made forest. What sounds like a good thing—forests! carbon capture!—comes with problems: Some scientists say these trees are endangering the existing desert ecosystem, and any carbon benefits will take hundreds more years, all while climate change-driven drought is killing the forest. What is Israel's path forward? Perhaps it's with more robust trees. TREES GONE BAD

Today’s ‘get moving’ soundtrack: Get Up Offa That Thing, James Brown This newsletter has been curated and edited by Jen Tse, Hannah Farrow, and David Beard. Have feedback, a new calling to exercise? Email david.beard@natgeo.com. Thanks for reading!

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