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The Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself When It Doesn't Get Enough Sleep
The need for sleep goes far beyond simply replenishing our energy levels every 12 hours. Our brains actually change states when we sleep to clear away the toxic byproducts of neural activity left behind during the day.
sciencealert.com
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“Researchers have found that persistently poor sleep causes the brain to clear a significant amount of neurons and synaptic connections, and recovering sleep might not be able to reverse the damage.“

Oh, good. Good thing part of having chronic fatigue syndrome is insomnia from pain when you lie down then isn’t it. Suddenly those episodes of brain fog feel a lot more tangible…

(NB It’s 3am and I haven’t gone through this with a fine tooth comb for citations. It just kept popping up in a lot of my chronic illness community pages and the timing of it made me bleak-laugh at the fact that we were all awake reading the same thing.)

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