🧠 What Really Happens to Your Brain When You Don’t Sleep 😴⚠️ Missing a few nights of sleep might feel manageable — but inside your brain, something alarming begins to unfold. A new study reveals that long-term sleep deprivation triggers an overproduction of immune cells, especially microglia and astrocytes — the brain’s cleanup crew. Here’s what that means 👇 🧹 Astrocytes, responsible for clearing out old connections, start over-cleaning — literally dissolving healthy synapses and neural debr

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