Daily DNA Damage In Your Brain Increases Your Desire To Sleep (and subsequent DNA repair)

Andy Hab
2 min readNov 24, 2021

Are you telling my that the DNA in my brain is degrading throughout the day?!
Yup, that is correct.

How and why?
Well there are all sorts of things that cause DNA damage. These include UV light, oxidative stress, radiation, enzymatic errors, but also simply using your neurons increase…

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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!