Bryan Johnson· Author
Barring an injury, prioritizing quality sleep is one of the best ways to reduce S-100B and protect your brain. Focus on deep sleep as this is when the brain goes through its most reparative processes.
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Barring an injury, prioritizing quality sleep is one of the best ways to reduce S-100B and protect your brain. Focus on deep sleep as this is when the brain goes through its most reparative processes.
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Young healthy participants showed a 20% increase in S-100B levels following a single night of sleep deprivation, the same following brain traumatic injury.
The damage happens by disrupting the blood-brain barrier, allowing the protein S-100B to leak into the bloodstream, which at high levels, triggers inflammation and becomes toxic to brain cells, potentially leading to neuronal death.
One night of complete sleep deprivation increased blood S100-B and NSE by 20%, S100-B both markers of traumatic brain damage and stroke.
and raises brain damage markers linked to stroke.
sleep deprivation is literally brain damage a study in young participant showed that one night of bad sleep increased levels of this protein called s100b by 20% the same level as caused by a traumatic brain injury
now what happens is it enters the bloodstream it leads to toxicity which can lead to neuronal death
If you look at the studies, one bad night's sleep increases a protein in the brain that is equal to a traumatic brain injury.