The key claim of the article is: "the adenosine that it blocks doesn’t go away" (thus the borrow/debt analogy) This is false, it does go away. Adenosine is m

The key claim of the article is: "the adenosine that it blocks doesn’t go away" (thus the borrow/debt analogy) This is false, it does go away. Adenosine is metabolized back into AMP, then ADP, then ATP (the fuel for cells). And this does not only happen during sleep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_monophosphate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_monophosphate https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246291/ Not sure what's with all the articles that have citations throughout then conveniently exclude the one that matters.