Monday, 21 July 2014

Sleep detoxifies the brain.



Sleep detoxifies the brain:



During waking hours our brain is producing metabolites that need to be removed and surprisingly, this happens more quickly while we’re asleep.

Sleep is a vital function in all species and our brain changes more during sleep than we’ve realized. Sleep actually induces structural changes in the brain.

When awake we can’t remove accumulating toxins like amyloid beta. 

When we are asleep the spaces between brain neurons increase 60% so allowing greater cerebrospinal fluid and doubling amyloid beta removal. 

It’s anticipated that all metabolites are detoxified effectively during sleep so quantity and quality of sleep is associated with many, maybe all, neurological disorders.


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