Gastrointestinal symptoms
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Reduced blood flow to the gut and increase sympathetic drive associated with exercise has been linked to clinical implications: such as severe gastrointestinal symptoms that warrants exercise cessation to fatal septic shock or instigation of gastrointestinal inflammatory or function disease/disorder in athletes with predisposition.

Gastrointestinal symptom incidence has been reported to affect 60-96% of ultra-endurance athletes during competition. Symptoms can range from mild discomfort and inconvenience to extremely severe that cause ultra-endurance activity reduced workload, cessation, or even withdrawal, including the need for medical attention during and extended to a prolonged period after the ultra-endurance event.

Thus, exercise-associated gastrointestinal symptom is multi-factorial and dynamic in nature, making it difficult and tricky to detect, manage, and treat.