Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

So all of our repair processes are happening when we're sleeping, whether that's repairing damage to our DNA to prevent us from getting cancer-causing mutations, so they're

oncogenic mutations, whether we're repairing our brain, so we're cleaning out a lot of

gunk that builds up in our brain throughout the day. These are things that are like little,

you know, pieces of protein fragments and aggregates and, you know, and so when we sleep, it's like we clean

that all out.

It's a process called the glymphatic system that gets activated, and it literally squirts

this lymphatic fluid throughout our brain, kind of like a wash, like a cleansing.

And it physically forces it out through the lymphatic system.

And it's very important for preventing the buildup of protein aggregates like amyloid beta, which is involved in Alzheimer's disease.

And it's why sleep is so inherently connected to neurodegenergeneal disease because it is a repair time, right?

Lots of things going on with the brain, but also your metabolism and blood pressure. Your blood pressure resets. Everything's resetting during sleep. Digestion shuts down so that you can do all this repair stuff. So if you think about like your body as a kind of like a, like a bat, like a phone so your body is a phone and if you don't

recharge your phone at night right it dies it dies it's not going to run properly it's like it's

going to it's going to you know eventually die and you won't be able to use it so you know it's

kind of like the same thing you have to recharge your battery when you're sleeping and that's

kind of what you do.

And that includes everything from brain function to immune cell function.

Your immune system is also replenished to metabolism.

And this is something that I don't think a lot of people think of.

Most people when they think of being sleep deprived, they think of brain fog. I'm like, I'm not functioning properly. I'm not thinking like, you know, my sharpest. But I don't know that most people are thinking of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome.

And this is something, I know I certainly wasn't thinking about it until I became a new mother and was wearing a continuous

glucose monitor so that's something that you can attach to either your arm or I put it on

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