Why Your Gut Microbes Could Be Controlling Your Sleep

Why Your Gut Microbes Could Be Controlling Your Sleep

Researchers at Washington State University have uncovered evidence that sleep may not be entirely a function of the brain but also the microbes living within us. They discovered that bacterial cell wall molecules, known as peptidoglycan, exist naturally in the brain and fluctuate with the sleep cycle. This finding supports a groundbreaking view that sleep [...]