Your brain starts to eat itself if it hasn’t had enough sleep, according to a new study.
Researchers studied lab mice, and found that ‘clean-up’ cells were more active in their brains when they were sleep-deprived.
The cells, known as astrocytes, act like mini Hoovers in the brain, sweeping up cells as the brain’s connections become weak and break apart.
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