Sleeping Detoxifies Your Brain
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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You’re probably aware that there are many benefits of sleep. But did you know sleeping detoxifies your brain?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr. |
| 0:07.7 | Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:22.4 | So why do we sleep? Well, repair, rejuvenation, but also there's another reason. Our bodies detoxify or |
| 0:33.4 | shall I say our brain detoxifies while we're sleeping. Interesting. It's probably why people wake up |
| 0:39.4 | feeling groggy if they drink some alcohol or even have eaten junk food because you're adding more |
| 0:44.8 | toxic things into the body. So at the micro level you have these little on-off switches going on |
| 0:50.0 | in the neurons, but then you also have circadian waves. Okay, every 90 minutes you have these |
| 0:56.0 | waves from a superficial sleep to a deep delta rejuvenating the slow wave type sleep. That's when |
| 1:04.3 | you detox it in the deep slow wave phase. And when you have this on-off mechanism you have the |
| 1:12.5 | increase of oxygen and blood flow and then the decrease of oxygen and blood flow. And then when |
| 1:18.1 | you have a decrease in blood flow you have this additional increase in what's called cerebral |
| 1:23.7 | spinal fluid that is also circulating around the brain and that's where you're taking out |
| 1:29.8 | this waste. And so the cerebral spinal fluid which is kind of lymph fluid is helping to flesh out |
| 1:37.1 | this metabolic junk from your brain. And it's detoxifying things like beta amyloid, proteins, |
| 1:46.0 | and other placking, which will then help prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and things like that. |
| 1:51.6 | So the more you detox the better the memory, the better the focus, the better the concentration. |
| 1:58.4 | And of course what you eat directly relates to that because if you're also consuming things that |
| 2:03.1 | help detoxify your body, Christopher and Specialist for example, clean food, it's going to help this |
| 2:09.3 | situation. So you want to make sure that you get enough sleep. Most people need minimally seven |
| 2:15.4 | hours to nine hours. I can get by with six and a half and do totally fine. But then ever so often I can |
| 2:22.7 | take a very long nap like an hour and a half to two hours and I am just I'm great for a while. So |
| 2:32.4 | I do well in six and a half. Some people need more. Some people can get by on less. |
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