So much time is wasted due to sleep so, with more detail, I know we detox and repair while awake, but not like we do when asleep. Is it physically impossible? Is there any other animal that can do with without the sleeping debuff?
When I search, I get animals that don’t sleep like us, but they sleep one side of the brain at a time, so defeating the point of… Why can’t we repair our bodies without sleeping – at all?
I always find answers on websites like: ” THE MAJORITY OF MUSCLE REPAIR AND GROWTH OCCURS DURING SLEEP WHEN HORMONES ARE RELEASED ”
To me, this is like defining a word with the word itself
In: Biology
We do. Wounds plug. Scabs form. Lactic acid gets filtered out.
It just does a better job of it while you sleep.
Some things up in the brain need to be off while it scrubs them, hence the loss of consciousness. But there’s actually quite a few unknowns there.
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