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#045 Dr. Matthew Walker on Sleep for Enhancing Learning, Creativity, Immunity, and Glymphatic System

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How to Predict the Deficit in the Appropriate Amount of Deep Sleep

Amaloid builds up in some parts of the brain far more severely and early in the course of altimers disease. And what's fascinating is that it doesn't build up in the brain homogeneously. The principal epi centre that generates your deep sleep sits right there in the middle part of the pre frontal cortex. It is exactly the same part of the brain that accumulates toxic bete amaloid protein. So this was the first part of the alimer sleep equation, which is that a mus disease attacks the deep sleep generating regions,. You have a dim diminution of deep sleep, which in turn blunts your learning and memory abilities, and you become more forgetful

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