The Role of Sleep in Aging

Carnivores are eating much more energy efficient food because meat is just the best way to make more animals, eat animal. So they can be a bit more prone to sleep without losing enough time to hunt. If you are conserving energy whilst riding that energy high of having gotten a kill, it prolongs the time you'll have to hunt again. There's also been notes that the brain's lymphatic system will do brain wide flushes of metabolites like this and others with cerebral spinal fluid during sleep. It does seem that there is a waste management aspect. We're cleaning up. Yes, that we're flushing our systems while we sleep and getting rid of all of the waste

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