The reason it takes eight hours to recover from being awake for 16 hours is because you're essentially stripping yourself of resources. Every cell in your body is like a miniature version of you and if you don't get enough sleep, that's sort of damaging you. So paying back your sleep debt does rebalance your hormonesRebalance your inflammatory cascades Your signaling Molecules tell cells what to do and tell seals how to communicate um All of that stuff can be mended, but if there’s some damage done in there to where like you start you have some inflammation Um, you wall off some of the waste products with the it was like a protein that kind of like encapsulates

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