Why Do We Die Without Sleep?
The Joy of Why
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What Is Reactive Oxide?
Losing sleep somehow messes something up in the fly's gut. So what happens, when we saw, is that you have these reactive oxygen species accumulating, and then you trig oxidation of the gut,. Or what is called oxidative stress. And so eventually you see celsd massively dying in the gut. And this so happens, and then they die. O they're very, very damaging.
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