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Gut microbes: a key to normal sleep – Newswise
With fall and winter holidays coming up, many will be pondering the relationship between food and sleep.
Newswise — Tsukuba, Japan — With fall and winter holidays coming up, many will be pondering the relationship between food and sleep. Researchers led by Professor Masashi Yanagisawa at the University of Tsukuba in Japan hope they can focus people on the important middlemen in the equation: bacterial microbes in the gut. Their detailed study in mice revealed the extent to which bacteria can change the environment and contents of the intestines, which ultimately impacts behaviors like sleep.
The experiment…
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