How Sleep and Gut Microbes Team Up to Create Health or Disease

Increasingly, research is revealing a sleep-gut-brain triangle that offers easy ways to improve health.
How Sleep and Gut Microbes Team Up to Create Health or Disease
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The mechanisms of sleep remain somewhat of a mystery. We do know, however, that sleep is the key to growth, development, and the process of removing toxins from our brains.

Yet good sleep doesn’t come easily to everyone. For a variety of reasons, falling and staying asleep night after night can be difficult for some adults and children.

Amy Denney
Amy Denney
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Amy Denney is a health reporter for The Epoch Times. Amy has a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois Springfield and has won several awards for investigative and health reporting. She covers the microbiome, new treatments, and integrative wellness.
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