Re:Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
by bronson on Friday August 14, 2015 @05:59PM
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I think that's true. Here's more support for the idea that the brain actually uses quite a lot of energy:
"Although the average adult human brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms, only 2 percent of total body weight, it demands 20 percent of our resting metabolic rate (RMR)βthe total amount of energy our bodies expend in one very lazy day of no activity."
"Although the average adult human brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms, only 2 percent of total body weight, it demands 20 percent of our resting metabolic rate (RMR)βthe total amount of energy our bodies expend in one very lazy day of no activity."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinking-hard-calo...