How Fasting Can—and Can't—Improve Gut Health

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It’s clear that some radical, and perhaps radically beneficial, things happen when you give your body breaks from food

For a series of recent studies, a team of researchers based in the Netherlands and China examined the effects of Ramadan-styleon the gut microbiome—the billions of bacteria that reside in the human gastrointestinal tract. “We really wanted to know what intermittent fasting does to the body,” says Dr. Maikel Peppelenbosch, a member of that research team and a professor of gastroenterology at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Mayer says that modern eating habits—so-called “grazing,” or eating steadily throughout the day—leave little time for the migrating motor complex to do its thing. “This function has been relegated to the time when we sleep, but even this has been disrupted because a lot of people wake up in the middle of the night and snack on something,” he says.

microbiome, and that may have downstream impacts on health,” says Dr. Eran Elinav, principal investigator of the Host-Microbiome Interaction Research Group at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel., has shown that the gut microbiome undergoes day-night shifts that are influenced by a person’s eating schedule, and that lead to changing patterns of metabolite production, gene expression, and other significant elements of gut health.

 

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