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Let's talk about the symptoms of sleep deprivation.

The person who took the road record for sustained, I guess, lack of sleep or

sleep deprivation was 11 days. Man, that's a long time. If I didn't sleep for more than one day,

I would probably have some serious side effects from that. I remember in basic training,

they kept us up for 48 hours. That was rough. And then when my 20s, there was quite a few years

where I didn't sleep. There were nights that I didn't sleep even one minute. So it's literally

torture not being able to sleep. The benefits of sleep are detoxification, which I'm going to do

another video on. And an overall rejuvenation of a lot of body chemicals. This is when you heal.

All right. So number one, the symptoms of sleep deprivation, cognitive impairments. This is

loss of concentration, memory and focus. You're going to get brain fog. Number two, your

ability or anxiety or depression. Number three, high blood glucose. So it can negatively affect

your blood sugars. And before a lower immune system, not sleeping can increase your susceptibility

to getting sick. Number five, inflammation. Six, seven, and eight, delusion, paranoia,

and psychosis can occur from a chronic sleep deprivation situation. So you literally can go insane

by not sleeping. And number nine, damage to your gut. There's been two interesting studies that I

just read one relating to fruit flies. Fruit flies will last about 11 days. And then they die

if you deprive them of sleep. So if you have any fruit flies around, it says pets, make sure that

they get regular, consistent, high quality sleep. They also did the study on mice. And they found

a lot of inflammation in the gut and the small intestine as well as the large. Apparently there

was a massive increase in Ross, which is a type of oxidation. And the reason for that probably

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