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Why Do We Die Without Sleep?

The Joy of Why

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Is Sleep Really Related to Digestion?

This reminds me of people saying, after a turkey dinner on thanksgiving, you'll have too much triptophen and you're going to want to go to sleep. This molecule is made not in response to specific amino acids, but its just sensing how pertinacious od is. The gut is one of the first organs that appeared in animal evolution. Every thing that you made of essentially, it has to come through your gut. You have to eat it, extract some molecules, turn it into yourself. It's nothing else you can think of. And your bodies is exposed to anything approaching what your god is exposed to. That is a fascinating note to end on.

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