“Here, we studied two of those strategies. One involves the circadian clock, the internal mechanism that helps orchestrate body activities such as going to sleep or when to eat. Another aspect that can affect how we metabolize our food is the microbiome, the bacteria that live in the body.”
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Derek S. O’Neil et al. Conditional postnatal deletion of the neonatal murine hepatic circadian gene,Npas2 , alters the gut microbiome following restricted feeding, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2017.03.024