{"id":1177,"date":"2025-01-06T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:17:02","slug":"cynthia-thurlow-gut-health-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/blog\/cynthia-thurlow-gut-health-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"CYNTHIA THURLOW’S TIPS FOR GUT-BRAIN CONNECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BENEFITS OF A HEALTHY MICROBRIOME<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Cynthia Thurlow, a renowned metabolic health expert and nurse practitioner, offers key takeaways on cultivating a healthy microbiome and strengthening the gut-mind connection.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The gut microbiome is a diverse ecosystem and contains 1000s of types of microbiota. There is an important connection, via the MGB-A, the microbiome-gut-brain axis that provides a bi-directional communication system via the vagus nerve to share information. The gut microbiome is sensitive to many factors, including shift work, jet lag\/sleep deprivation, food choices, chronic stress, medications, exposure to toxins and life stages. Avoidance of key foods like ultra-processed foods and even emulsifiers can benefit the microbiome, which are exquisitely sensitive to inflammation, endotoxemia and changes in microbiota\/flora.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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\u201c\u00a0There\u2019s an undeniable connection between the quality of food we eat and the health of our gut microbiome\u201d<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS THAT BENEFIT THE MICROBIOME<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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  • There\u2019s an undeniable connection between the quality of food we eat and the health of our gut microbiome, as well as the health of our brains<\/li>\n
  • <\/b>There\u2019s a bidirectional relationship between our gut and brain and this impacts sleep qualit<\/li>\n
  • Research suggests that the better the diversity of the gut microbiome, the better the quality of our sleep<\/li>\n
  • <\/b>Poor quality sleep can alter the gut microbiome for up to 48-hrs<\/li>\n
  • <\/b>Aim to consume your meals aligned with circadian biology, aka: eat when it is light outside and not when it is dark outside<\/li>\n
  • <\/b>You are more insulin sensitive during the morning\/early afternoon, adjust your meal intake accordingly<\/li>\n
  • <\/b>\u00a0Understanding how to eat for your menstrual cycle, perimenopause and menopause<\/li>\n
  • <\/b>\u00a0Alcohol has a profound and negative impact on sleep quality, including REM and deep sleep metrics, as well as changes to key hormones, like cortisol, insulin, ghrelin\/leptin<\/li>\n
  • <\/b>\u00a0Moderate caffeine intake if you are sensitive to caffeine, as it binds to adenosine receptors and can promote wakefulness and increases dopamine<\/li>\n
  • <\/b>\u00a0Take 2-3 breaths prior to consuming a meal to help tap into the parasympathetic (rest\/repose side of our autonomic nervous system), which can help with digestion, detoxification, etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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    Discover the intricate connection between the gut and brain with Cynthia Thurlow. Learn how to optimize your gut microbiome for better health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3581,"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/3581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equinox-hotels.com\/nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}