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I've never heard of this before. Is this well known? Do ROS go away after sleeping?
by copperx 4y ago
I've never heard of this before. Is this well known? Do ROS go away after sleeping?
- garganzol 4y agoThis is relatively well known [1]. ROS normally go away after sleeping, and this one of the reasons we need sleep. But. If you are past a certain threshold, ROS can do so much damage that it starts to affect cellular ATP production, leading to a tissue hypoxia. When this happens, it leads to onset of an acquired mitochondrial dysfunction. This is a pathological state that is characterized by a lingering fatigue as its main hallmark sign. Such fatigue does not go away after sleeping. But usually it is not like 0 or 1. A person may have something in between and live without even knowing it, thinking that it's all just mental or age-related. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27285492/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27285492/
- copperx 4y agoI wish I had heard about this earlier. I'm now 40 and my sleep patterns are not healthy. I don't have insomnia, I'm just used to sleeping past the point of total exhaustion. That cannot be good given what you say about ROS :(