{"id":112484,"date":"2020-09-04T05:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T12:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/sleep-cleans-the-brain"},"modified":"2020-09-04T05:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T12:26:40","slug":"sleep-cleans-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/sleep-cleans-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Sleep \u2018cleans\u2019 the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sleep-cleans-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sleep has critical roles in health and regeneration, and one of those is clearing the brain of metabolic waste, according to researchers from the US and Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-18115-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in the journal <em>Nature Communications<\/em>, they\u2019ve discovered in mice that the time of day matters, suggesting the process is controlled by circadian rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur group has shown that just being awake or asleep drastically changes how well the brain can clear waste,\u201d says lead author Lauren Hablitz from the University of Rochester Medical Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleep has critical roles in health and regeneration, and one of those is clearing the brain of metabolic waste, according to researchers from the US and Denmark. Now, as reported in the journal Nature Communications, they\u2019ve discovered in mice that the time of day matters, suggesting the process is controlled by circadian rhythms. \u201cOur group [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}