date:Mar 01, 2017
fect brain function.
For their study, Thompson and colleagues put male rats on one of two diets for 4 weeks: a diet supplemented with prebiotics or a standard chow diet (the control diet).
Rats that were fed the prebiotic diet showed an increase in beneficial gut bacteria - including Lactobacillus rhamnosus, known to aid immune system function - compared with rats fed the control diet.
Using electroencephalography to measure the rats' sleep-wake cycles, the researchers found that rats fed the