Not taking proper sleep? Your brain might be eating itself
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Sleeping serves many purposes. It helps our bodies replenish, and prepares us for the next day. Besides giving us the energy we need to function, it gets rid of the toxics in our brain, that are a residual byproduct of neural activity. Researchers recently found that not getting enough sleep consistently could cause the brain to clear a significant amount of neurons and synaptic connections.