{"id":221372,"date":"2025-09-03T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/why-do-we-need-sleep-oxford-scientists-trace-the-answer-to-mitochondria"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:02:45","slug":"why-do-we-need-sleep-oxford-scientists-trace-the-answer-to-mitochondria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/why-do-we-need-sleep-oxford-scientists-trace-the-answer-to-mitochondria","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Need Sleep? Oxford Scientists Trace the Answer to Mitochondria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-do-we-need-sleep-oxford-scientists-trace-the-answer-to-mitochondria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sleep may serve as more than rest for the mind; it may also function as essential upkeep for the body\u2019s energy systems. A new study from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-oxford\/\"> University of Oxford<\/a> researchers, published in <em><i>Nature<\/i>,<\/em> shows that the drive to sleep is caused by electrical stress building up in the tiny energy-producing structures of brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>This finding provides a concrete physical explanation for the biological need for sleep and has the potential to reshape scientific thinking about sleep, aging, and neurological disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleep may serve as more than rest for the mind; it may also function as essential upkeep for the body\u2019s energy systems. A new study from University of Oxford researchers, published in Nature, shows that the drive to sleep is caused by electrical stress building up in the tiny energy-producing structures of brain cells. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221372","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=221372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}