[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":59},["ShallowReactive",2],{"navigation":3,"cms-page-/how-feeling-tired-and-low-energy-can-come-from-poor-gut-health":42,"blog-how-feeling-tired-and-low-energy-can-come-from-poor-gut-health":43,"page-/how-feeling-tired-and-low-energy-can-come-from-poor-gut-health":42},{"headerItems":4,"footerItems":22,"ctaButton":38,"footerHeading":40,"footerDescription":41},[5,9,12,15,18],{"label":6,"path":7,"external":8},"About","/about",false,{"label":10,"path":11,"external":8},"Technologies","/our-technology",{"label":13,"path":14,"external":8},"Team","/team",{"label":16,"path":17,"external":8},"Learn","/blog",{"label":19,"path":20,"external":21},"Shop","https://intentionaleveryday.com/",true,[23,26,29,32,35],{"label":24,"url":25,"external":8},"Partner With Us","/partner",{"label":27,"url":28,"external":8},"Investors","mailto:investors@turtletree.com",{"label":30,"url":31,"external":21},"Careers","https://apply.workable.com/turtletree/",{"label":33,"url":34,"external":8},"Press","/blog?section=media",{"label":36,"url":37,"external":8},"Contact us","mailto:hello@turtletree.com",{"text":39,"link":25},"Get a Sample","Join the Revolution","Get exciting updates from TurtleTree",null,{"id":44,"path":45,"title":46,"description":47,"date":48,"category":49,"tags":50,"image":53,"author":54,"published":55,"slug":56,"body":57,"blocks":42,"seo_title":58,"seo_description":58,"og_image":42},20,"/how-feeling-tired-and-low-energy-can-come-from-poor-gut-health","How Feeling Tired and Low Energy Can Come From Poor Gut Health","Feel lethargic and low energy all the time? Discover how microorganisms that reside in the gut can affect our energy levels.","2021-04-27T10:43:00.000Z","blog",[51,52],"gut-health","gut-brain-axis","/cms-media/how-feeling-tired-and-low-energy-can-come-from-poor-gut-health.jpg","TurtleTree",1,"how-feeling-tired-and-low-energy-can-come-from-poor-gut-health","\u003Cp>Every day, you wake up, eat breakfast, and begin the day. With a little caffeine from a cup of coffee or tea to get a jumpstart, you shed off sleep and tackle the work day. But you may not always run on optimal energy. You might suffer from a level of tiredness or fatigue that just can’t be shaken off with a hot espresso or morning jog.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>And the problem might lie in the gut.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Our gut is intricately tied to our overall well-being, as we touched on in our previous introductory article on \u003Ca href=\"https://turtletree.com/gut-health-101-probiotics-prebiotics-and-more/\">gut health\u003C/a>. The gut is so powerful that it can even affect our moods and thinking through the \u003Ca href=\"https://turtletree.com/the-gut-brain-axis-and-its-influences-in-your-daily-life/\">gut-brain axis\u003C/a>. But what about our energy levels? \u003Ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1743-7075-7-79\">Research\u003C/a> shows that the gut, as our main channel for receiving nutrition, can impact our energy in surprising ways.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>People living with less energy and more fatigue on a daily basis may be experiencing changes to their gut microbiome. The microorganisms that reside in the gut can influence how a person digests and absorbs their food, induce irritations and inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract, and affect our sleep cycles. All of these factors play a role in how energetic we feel during the day.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>\u003Cstrong>The Gut Microbiome and Fatigue\u003C/strong>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Growing evidence suggests we may be more tired or exhausted from alterations in our gut. Low energy levels can be accompanied by a viral infection or a flu-like illness. Researchers speculate that some kind of change impacts the gut, whether that’s an infection or a source of stress, can cause a shift in the microbial community to shift from mostly beneficial bacteria living in the gut to a sudden growth of bacteria, such as pathogenic _E. coli_. These bacteria create an imbalance in the gut and give us more gastrointestinal trouble on a daily basis.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Other bacteria involved in these alterations of the microbiome include _Enterococcus_ and _Streptococcus_ species, bacterial genera that are associated with human infections. _Proteus_ bacteria, a genus of bacteria that causes urinary tract infections, wound infections, and meningitis in babies, is highly present in the gut microbial ecosystem of \u003Ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84783-9\">patients\u003C/a> with high levels of fatigue. Overall, individuals that experience a lot of fatigue tend to exhibit less \u003Ca href=\"https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-016-0171-4\">bacterial diversity\u003C/a> in their gut.\u003C/p>","",1774541266361]