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Dr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State

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The Architecture of the Night Sleep

There's a lot of plasticity that happens when we're awake and talking to each other. That changes our synapses and it changes the way our proteins are going to be folded and changed during sleep. This process actually uses a lot of ATP, the power structure, the fuel of the brain. It unfolds also proteins while we're doing this, while we're using them. So I think of it actually as a bilge pump, cleaning out our brain. Stay tuned. This is going to be a stimulant. Yes.

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