Andy’s Quick Hits (108): Sleep Clears Up Your Broken DNA

Andy Hab
2 min readOct 25, 2021

Well that sounds impressive, but you’ll have to explain how we get “broken DNA”
Well, you have a lot of cells, really a lot, trillions (and 85 billions neurons in the brain). Each of these has chromosomes containing DNA. Different forms of stress on these cells can cause DNA damage — this includes radiation, but also oxidative stress caused by natural bodily processes.

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Andy Hab

Sharing fascinating, fun, and important knowledge on the brain and human behaviour - most days. And masters track athlete - still going strong!