Interesting31 Oct 2017 08:03
'The hormone melatonin, the production of which both reflects the sleep and wake cycle as well as helping to control it, in a healthy woman, is timed according to the rotation of the earth. But if you go to bed too late then it won’t be released at the right time or in the right amount. The consequences of this are significant: Melatonin plays many roles in the body. It is both a potent antioxidant, and new research has suggested that it also works within the GI tract to properly set the clock of the microbiome in the gut. If the clocks of the microbes living within the gut have faulty timing, this can lead to a whole host of metabolic, emotional, and immune problems' This came up with all the recent news linked to Circadian Rhythms etc. I was intrigued by the biome comment.