New research indicates physical activity, rather than sleep, may play a more crucial role in maintaining brain health.
A personal trainer watches a client workout in a park in the eastern suburbs of Sydney Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021.
“The field has been so focused on the clearance idea as one of the key reasons why we sleep, and we were of course very surprised to observe the opposite in our results,” said study co-lead author Nick Franks, professor of biophysics and anesthetics at Imperial College London. “As yet, we do not know what it is about these states that slows down the removal of molecules from the brain.”
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