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Poor Sleep Damages Your Cells More Than You Think 🧬💤

30 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker explains that sleep is essential for mitochondrial health. Mitochondria undergo repair and resetting during deep sleep; insufficient or shallow sleep leaves them inflamed and overworked. The speaker distinguishes the roles of deep sleep (body and muscle recovery) and REM sleep (brain recovery), emphasizing that both stages are required for overall physiological restoration.

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So poor sleep, um, will cause you to need mitochondrial repair. Um, and so as a matter of fact, mitochondria, they do repair and they reset while you're sleeping. So if you're not sleeping deeply or sleeping enough, your mitochondria is going to stay inflamed and overworked. And remember, we need deep sleep and REM sleep, right? Um, deep sleep will help with your body, like even if you have a workout or whatever, it helps your body recover. REM will help your brain recover. Um, so you need both, right?