Shawn Stevenson explains how your gut controls your sleep. About 95% of your body's serotonin lives in your gut, not your brain, and gut bacteria produce the serotonin that becomes melatonin. Your gut actually contains 400 times more melatonin than your pineal gland.
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Upwards of 95%.
At least 400 times more melatonin than the pineal gland.
Caltech (researchers from Caltech).
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Okay, so another thing that you, that you alluded to just a little bit ago was the link between gut bacteria and sleep. I found this section of the book fascinating. I think everybody knows that if your gut is messed up, it's going to mess up many areas of your life. But I'd like to specifically hear you expound a little bit on what you found regarding the actual bacterial profile of the gut and, and its effect on sleep.
Oh, man, this was so this was.
Probably the most fun that I had writing the book. And a lot of the stuff that I talk about in this chapter I personally didn't even know about for, until about maybe two years ago. And a lot of your audience is already going to be up to speed.
On the fact that upwards of 95%.
Of your body serotonin is located in your gut.
All right?
And serotonin is actually produced by the interchromophen cells that are in the intestinal mucosa and in your belly.
All right?
And we talked about earlier how it's.
A precursor to melatonin.
So serotonin's function in your body and the ability of these cells to produce.
It is really, really important.
And what was also so interesting, and.
You mentioned this already, and there was.
There were researchers from, it was Caltech.
And they discovered that certain bacteria in your gut play an important role in.
The production of serotonin that we've already been talking about. So the bacteria in your gut are literally communicating with the cells that produce your serotonin.
So that' one, part two is like a game changer. Everybody needs to understand this from this day, from this day forward.
And it really changed my thinking just tremendously when I found this out.
So a big part of this sleep equation and what we've even been talking about is melatonin.
Right?
Right. So melatonin is the quote, sleep hormone, but it's really more like a get good sleep hormone.
It helps your body, it by regulating.
Your sleep cycles and, and supporting healthy sleep. So when we think about it, we oftentimes think about the pineal gland because this is what we're told in popular culture, your pineal gland is producing your melatonin.
Well, this is the big news flash is that it's been discovered that your.
Gut has been found to contain at least 400 times more melatonin than your pineal gland.
