{"id":9739,"date":"2017-06-05T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2017-06-05T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:58:41","slug":"get-to-sleep-on-time-or-youll-hear-munchins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/06\/05\/get-to-sleep-on-time-or-youll-hear-munchins\/","title":{"rendered":"Get To Sleep On Time Or You’ll Hear Munchin’s!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This makes me wonder if all of America is going to be wandering about, drooling, in a few decades. NewScientist<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(27 May 2017) has a report<\/a> on the effects of sleep deprivation on mice, and it’s not pretty:<\/p>\n

BURNING the midnight oil may well burn out your brain. The brain cells that destroy and digest worn-out cells and debris go into overdrive in mice that are chronically sleep-deprived.<\/p>\n

In the short term, this might be beneficial \u2013 clearing potentially harmful debris and rebuilding worn circuitry might protect healthy brain connections. But it may cause harm in the long term, and could explain why a chronic lack of sleep puts people at risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other neurological disorders, says Michele Bellesi of the Marche Polytechnic University in Italy. …<\/p>\n

The team specifically looked at glial cells, which form the brain\u2019s housekeeping system. Earlier research had found that a gene that regulates the activity of these cells is more active after a period of sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n

One type of glial cell, called an astrocyte, prunes unnecessary synapses in the brain to remodel its wiring. Another type, called a microglial cell, prowls the brain for damaged cells and debris.<\/p>\n

Bellisi\u2019s team found that after an undisturbed sleep, astrocytes appeared to be active in around 6 per cent of the synapses in the brains of the well-rested mice. But astrocytes seemed to be more active in sleep-deprived mice \u2013 those that had lost eight hours of sleep showed astrocyte activity in around 8 per cent of their synapses, while the cells were active in 13.5 per cent of the synapses of the chronically sleep-deprived animals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another reason not to be a brown-nosing slave to your employer. Me? I’m going out to a drive-in movie tonight and sleeping in tomorrow. I put in a couple of hours at work yesterday to cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This makes me wonder if all of America is going to be wandering about, drooling, in a few decades. NewScientist\u00a0(27 May 2017) has a report on the effects of sleep deprivation on mice, and it’s not pretty: BURNING the midnight oil may well burn out your brain. The brain cells \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9741,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions\/9741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}