Sleep—It’s Even More Important Than You Think! Here’s one for your learning journal. Did you get enough sleep? This will shock you, but just being awake creates nasty toxic products in your brain. The longer you’re awake, the more the toxins build up. What an awful thought! It’s not as bad as it sounds. Once you go to sleep, your brain cells shrink, and the poisonous toxins are washed away through the gaps.3 When you wake up, the poisons have gone. Just like a computer can be rebooted to clear away errors, your brain is rebooted when you wake up from a good night’s sleep. This is your
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