A new finding last year found that when we sleep, channels for waste and neurotoxic substances open up by as much as 60 per cent more. Indeed, in other research, removal of beta-amyloid, a substance implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, was found to be substantially higher during sleep.
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Commentary written on behalf of the Singapore Sleep Society, to commemorate World Sleep Day on March 14.
Source:
Prof. Michael Chee,
Neuroscience and Behavioral Program,
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
&
Investigator,
National Medical Research Council STaR
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