Bad Night Sleep Literally Eats Your Brain Up

Did you really sleep last night ?

Or did you toss and turn the night away ? or may be you were just staring your Ex's sister's wedding photos ?

Yeah, It happens a lot with people they try to sleep and keep thinking for hours and hours about their day work and other things going in life, but they always forget the value of sleep while this. The work you after bad night sleep and one you do after a sound good sleep, is far more better. But whatever kept you up whole night was not doing any favor for your brain.

The brain drain :

Well let me tell you guys (or some of you might already know this), when you sleep your brain try to arrange all the things you have been doing all day long and at last it tidies up all the unnecessary things and only remember some important things that are gonna help you through next day or in future. But when we don't sleep or don't take proper rest our mind can not process all information, and surprisingly our brain can not trim the important information and messes with everything.

Astrocytes Are the brain cells which helps our brain to process information, and let it decide what is important and what not, so that it could trim the information according to need. Some researchers in italy ran tests on mice and they found their astrocytes went into overdrive.

Some mice were given a nightly eight hours of sleep, and some were periodically interrupted to keep them from snoozing too deeply. Some were kept awake for an entire night, and some poor little rodents were forced to stay up five nights straight. The less the mice slept, the more active their astrocytes became. What's more, the astrocytes in the good-sleep and interrupted-sleep mice stuck to the business of eating brain waste, those in the sleep-deprived category ate parts of working synapses instead. No wonder they say driving without sleep is as bad as driving drunk.

The Long Term Damage

Your brain eating itself is pretty bad news. That kind of damage can lead to some serious problems in the long run. This activity might be a key explanation for diseases like Alzheimer's, which has already been linked with highly active microglial cells — the same type of cells as astrocytes. As a matter of fact, a lack of sleep is strongly associated with the disease as well. If that's not a good enough reason to practice good sleep hygiene, I don't know what is. Here's a quick primer on healthy sleep habits to help you beat insomnia:

Limit your naps to 30 minutes: Who doesn't love naps? But they don't take the place of a good night's sleep, and might get in the way of one.
Get some exercise: You don't want to get yourself too energized right before bed. But sometime during the day, try to work up a sweat.
Enjoy natural light: Exposure to sunlight during the day and darkness at night regulates your body clock and gets you sleepy on schedule.
Cut out the screens: Try putting down the phone, stepping away from the computer, and leaving the TV off an hour before bed. It could do wonders.

ps: I know we all hard as much as we can, but we all must consider getting a good sleep,