{"id":18448,"date":"2018-04-17T00:45:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18448"},"modified":"2024-06-29T02:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:24:18","slug":"is-your-gut-causing-sleepless-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18448","title":{"rendered":"Is your gut causing sleepless nights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tummy-troubles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-18449\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tummy-troubles-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"tummy-troubles\" width=\"770\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt\u2019s already known that sleep influences your gut health, in part because lack of it makes it harder for you to control your impulses and manipulates hormones linked to food intake, causing you to eat more and crave unhealthy foods<br \/>\nNow researchers are asking whether the opposite also holds true and perhaps your microbiome influences your ability to sleep as well<br \/>\nThere could be a link between sleep quality, composition of gut microbiome and cognitive flexibility in older adults<br \/>\nPrebiotics, which act as food for beneficial bacteria, or probiotics, in your gut, have been found to influence sleep in animal studies<br \/>\nWhen men slept for just four hours a night for two nights in a row, the balance of bacteria in their gut shifted in ways linked to metabolic disturbances<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/home-family-pets\/is-your-gut-causing-sleepless-nights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/home-family-pets\/is-your-gut-causing-sleepless-nights\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s already known that sleep influences your gut health, in part because lack of it makes it harder for you to control your impulses and manipulates hormones linked to food intake, causing you to eat more and crave unhealthy foods Now researchers are asking whether the opposite also holds true and perhaps your microbiome influences &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is your gut causing sleepless nights?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51440,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18448\/revisions\/51440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}