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Does gut influence your sleep patterns?
There are a lot of reasons we do not get enough sleep: Stress, depression, anxiety or binge watching your favorite movie. These are obvious reasons for deficient sleep. Have you ever thought there can be other reasons as well- may be there is something going on in your body which is disturbing our sleep! It…
Gut Microbiome- This is where it all started
All chronic/lifestyle diseases be it diabetes, thyroid, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Anxiety, Depression & autoimmune diseases are the result of chronic inflammation. So the question arises how this chronic inflammation arises? This dreaded inflammation occurs because our second brain- gut microbiome is out of balance. When the gut microbiome is out of balance, our immune system…
How to reset your Circadian Rhythm?
Humans have clock genes that make our body tick like a well oiled machine. Circadian Rhythm is our body’s biological clock that directly impacts our metabolism, digestion & sleep. It is instructed by clock genes that trigger essential metabolic activities such as storing energy, transporting oxygen, releasing hormones & neurotransmitters. Briefly, this biological clock dictates…
Genefitletics has entered into a collaboration with BugSpeaks to offer Gut Microbiome Intelligence Solution
Genefitletics, a unit of Sushant Kumar Ventures Pvt. Ltd. entered into a collaboration with BugSpeaks, a brand of Leucine Rich Bio Pvt. Ltd. to offer gut microbiome intelligence based preventive health solution. Geneftletics is designing a revolutionary offering in the preventive health space, wherein they offer a hyper-personalised solution based on an individual’s genetic & gut…
The Two D(s)- Diabetes & Dysbiosis
What causes type 2 diabetes? You might be thinking this is no brainer-Overweight, obesity, insulin resistance! However, you may be shocked to learn that your gut microbiome has a major role to play in diabetes. The rate of people attracting diabetes is increasing with 422 million people worldwide suffering. Situation around 4 decades ago was…
Genetically aligned nutrition plate
We generally think that carbohydrates & fat are bad guys & we should keep their consumption minimal. Lots of so-called fitness experts also propagate to eat anything under their macros to maintain a calorie deficit diet. All these baseless assumptions are false & should be avoided. Your nutrition composition is driven by your genetic insights…
Gut health essentials: Pre & Probiotics
Pre & probiotics both are essential for our gut health but both are entirely different. Prebiotics are the food that promote growth of beneficial gut bacteria while on the other hand probiotics are edible sources that contain health promoting microbes. We are going to discuss both these categories of foods at length. Our gut microbiome…
How to manage your sleep?
We have discussed in detail about biological clock in our earlier blog on circadian rhythm. Sleep plays an important role in maintaining our biological clock. Due to our busy life schedule & unwanted stress, our sleep often gets disrupted. On numerous occasions, we hit our coach for a blissful & peaceful sleep but it gets…
Can gut health determine our athletic performance?
We are generally told that having a high protein diet is essential for building that power or endurance potential. However, we fail to realise that there is something in our body that directly impacts our workout & athletics performance. In Fact our body is not only ours. Our colon holds trillions of microorganisms( bacteria) who…
Foods to combat oxidative stress
Oxidative stress is caused by overproduction of free radicals in the body & reduced amount of antioxidants to combat the oxidation. Free radicals occur as the body converts glucose to energy. However, this is not the only way. There are a lot of environmental factors such as exercise, eating foods cooked with oil at high…
