If you like the science of the body, you’ll like this! It really is amazing and so easy to now understand the brain and sleep from a neuroscience look.

I am watching this video while lacking proper sleep last night (my son was up in the middle of the night with an upset stomach) so once done, I may go take a nap so I can fill my brain with the good and get rid of the bad! 🙂

One More Reason to Get a Good Night’s Sleep

By neuroscientist Jeff Ililf on TedMed.

Sleep. It’s something we spend about a third of our lives doing, but do any of us really understand what it’s all about?

We all know based on our own personal experience that when you sleep, it clears your mind, and when you don’t sleep, it leaves your mind murky.

The brain uses a quarter of the body’s entire energy supply, yet only accounts for about two percent of the body’s mass. So how does this unique organ receive and, perhaps more importantly, rid itself of vital nutrients?

New research suggests it has to do with sleep.

See, you and I, we go to sleep every single night, but our brains, they never rest. While our body is still and our mind is off walking in dreams somewhere, the elegant machinery of the brain is quietly hard at work cleaning and maintaining this unimaginably complex machine. Like our housework, it’s a dirty and a thankless job, but it’s also important. In your house, if you stop cleaning your kitchen for a month, your home will become completely unlivable very quickly.

But in the brain, the consequences of falling behind may be much greater than the embarrassment of dirty countertops,because when it comes to cleaning the brain, it is the very health and function of the mind and the body that’s at stake, which is why understanding these very basic housekeeping functions of the brain today maybe critical for preventing and treating diseases of the mind tomorrow.

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