Sleep Deprivation Is Deadly

Humans would die in about two weeks if we never slept. Your brain needs sleep to survive,

not just to rest. During sleep, your brain activates a waste removal system that clears

out toxic proteins accumulated from thinking and existing. Without sleep, these toxins pile

up and literally poison your neurons. After three days awake, you'd start hallucinating.

Your immune system would crash completely, leaving you defenseless against disease. Your body would

stop producing the hormones that regulate hunger, stress, and growth.

Memory formation would cease entirely. You couldn't learn anything new. Your heart would

be under constant strain, blood pressure soaring dangerously high. Insulin resistance