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Are Prebiotics the Answer to Sleep and Stress Relief?

  • November 04, 2020

Although getting enough sleep is crucial to good health, more than 70 million Americans struggle to get a good night of sleep. Recently, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder showed how prebiotics can improve quality of sleep and resiliency to stress by having an impact on gut bacteria. In the study, rats on a prebiotic diet enjoyed a more restorative, non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep. In addition, after experiencing stress, rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep went up...