How getting less sleep can alter your gut microbiome
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The summary- Basically the article talks about how getting less sleep can alter and change gut bacteria, microbes in your body. Recent research has now found that the amount of sleep one is getting and gut is closely linked together, there is a connection involved. Good digestive health is a sign of overall sense of well being. Quality of sleep is focused on. There was same connection with gut-skin as well, how gut problems is related with skin issues as well. It has been reported that a good amount of adults these days are getting less sleep everyday, 35.3 percent of them are sleeping less than 7 hours during the normal 24 hr period in a given day, this is causing people to be deprived of sleep. The ideal and recommend amount of sleep needed is between 7-9 hours. If one is waking up feeling not refreshed and with stomach problems then gut is the one to blame. Swedish folks recently did a study where they surveyed the sleep habits of adults and found that it only takes two nights of bad sleep to make a bad impact on the gut microbiome and it's function. Source in the article indicated that after 2 nights of 4 and 4 1/2 hrs of sleep, the bacteria in the digestive tract was down to about 50 percent. The people who participated in the study became 20 percent less resistant to insulin and microbiomes were similar to those of who suffer from obesity. Also circadian rhythm can be disrupted by this as well. There is a normal clock person follows. There are ways to improve the microbiome for sleep. The main focus is following a good diet. Some other things that can help with improving gut microbiome for sleep are lower stress levels, probiotics, regular physical activity, avoiding caffiene. There are many other factors but these are main ones.
Overall connection to this course and other courses-
I have learned about the gut-brain axis in our class and other psychology courses that I took, both play an important role here. One thing took into account is that probiotics help increase GABA enzyme in the brain. Anxiety can cause gut and sleep issues as well. If sleep is disrupted like how said in article then that can have a major impact on the gut and sleep of course. I can relate to this because recently I was on a strong course of antibiotics for both ear infections, as a result, my gut has been out of balance and as well as sleep issues occured like insomnia and waking up in middle of night out of nowhere. An overall general feeling of unwell. As they say, a healthy gut is they key to a healthy body. That is a old saying I have heard many times from my elders. A good gut would mean better sleep in the end. People seem to have not been doing the right things stated in this article in order to get a healthy gut which then can help in achieveing better sleep. Lot of Americans struggle with this issue these days.
The summary- Basically the article talks about how getting less sleep can alter and change gut bacteria, microbes in your body. Recent research has now found that the amount of sleep one is getting and gut is closely linked together, there is a connection involved. Good digestive health is a sign of overall sense of well being. Quality of sleep is focused on. There was same connection with gut-skin as well, how gut problems is related with skin issues as well. It has been reported that a good amount of adults these days are getting less sleep everyday, 35.3 percent of them are sleeping less than 7 hours during the normal 24 hr period in a given day, this is causing people to be deprived of sleep. The ideal and recommend amount of sleep needed is between 7-9 hours. If one is waking up feeling not refreshed and with stomach problems then gut is the one to blame. Swedish folks recently did a study where they surveyed the sleep habits of adults and found that it only takes two nights of bad sleep to make a bad impact on the gut microbiome and it's function. Source in the article indicated that after 2 nights of 4 and 4 1/2 hrs of sleep, the bacteria in the digestive tract was down to about 50 percent. The people who participated in the study became 20 percent less resistant to insulin and microbiomes were similar to those of who suffer from obesity. Also circadian rhythm can be disrupted by this as well. There is a normal clock person follows. There are ways to improve the microbiome for sleep. The main focus is following a good diet. Some other things that can help with improving gut microbiome for sleep are lower stress levels, probiotics, regular physical activity, avoiding caffiene. There are many other factors but these are main ones.
Overall connection to this course and other courses-
I have learned about the gut-brain axis in our class and other psychology courses that I took, both play an important role here. One thing took into account is that probiotics help increase GABA enzyme in the brain. Anxiety can cause gut and sleep issues as well. If sleep is disrupted like how said in article then that can have a major impact on the gut and sleep of course. I can relate to this because recently I was on a strong course of antibiotics for both ear infections, as a result, my gut has been out of balance and as well as sleep issues occured like insomnia and waking up in middle of night out of nowhere. An overall general feeling of unwell. As they say, a healthy gut is they key to a healthy body. That is a old saying I have heard many times from my elders. A good gut would mean better sleep in the end. People seem to have not been doing the right things stated in this article in order to get a healthy gut which then can help in achieveing better sleep. Lot of Americans struggle with this issue these days.
Great connection to our classroom discussion! As mentioned, the gut microbiome is a huge aspect of our overall well-being, and sleep plays a big role in that. A lot of people who suffer from anxiety also have co-occurring things such as insomnia or digestion issues, which in turn can negative impact the amount of sleep an individual gets. Probiotics, which you mentioned and was also a good use of classroom incorporation, have been shown in many cases to be effective in reducing anxiety by both increasing GABA in the brain and promote positive bacterial growth in the gut.
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