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Does Sleep Deprivation Increase Desire for High-Calorie foods?

Our minds don’t function as well when we continually get less sleep than we need. After a prolonged period of time with less sleep, concentrating becomes progressively more difficult, our reactions become slower, and our minds can often wander off.  We may even fall asleep unintentionally.  Our mind starts “drifting. “ Sometimes, consuming substances like coffee, similar caffeinated beverages, or even medications like modafinil (Wingelaar-Jagt et al., 2023) can help us remain vigilant for some additional time. However, we must eventually have a sufficiently long sleep period to recuperate and remain healthy.

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Study Identifies Link Between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Gut Microbiome Composition in a Cohort of Women

When we are exposed to distressing events or conditions that overwhelm our ability to cope, our body can produce a severe emotional response, and we experience psychological trauma. We feel that we have lost control of events around us. Our ability to integrate these emotional experiences into the story of our lives is reduced. After experiencing psychological trauma, people often start dividing the subjective timeline of their lives into the time before and the time after the traumatic event. Long-lasting psychological and health consequences may often follow (Hamburger et al., 2021). Among other things, the experience of psychological trauma can lead to the development of a serious mental health disorder called post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD.

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Can Symptoms of Alzheimer’s be Transferred to Rats via the Gut Microbiota of Alzheimer’s Patients?

Our gut is home to trillions of different microorganisms. These microorganisms sustain themselves using the food we eat and help our digestion process. For example, many food items contain substances called resistant starches. Our digestive system cannot digest these resistant starches, but some bacteria in our gut can. They ferment those types of starches, creating substances called short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) that our bodies can use.

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What is “Food Noise” and How Does it Influence the DMHR?

Traditionally, people widely believed that individuals gain weight simply because they are not careful and eat too much. Religious teachings, for example, speak about gluttony, one of the deadly sins symbolizing primarily excessive or overindulgent eating. In this view, people become overweight more or less because their willpower is not strong enough to avoid the temptation to overeat. Similarly, to lose weight, they need to “tough it out” and show sufficient willpower to resist the urge to overeat.

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Can Broccoli Sprouts Alleviate Symptoms of Bowel Inflammation?

A study published in mSystems found that feeding mice a diet consisting of 10% steamed broccoli sprouts alleviated the symptoms of experimentally induced bowel inflammation These mice gained more weight during the study period The mice showed lower inflammation indicators...

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