Did you know that even while you sleep, neurons are working to repair their worn-out structural components?
To keep up with a full day’s demand, our busy brains are served by approximately 400 miles of capillaries.6
To put that in some context, those capillaries would reach from San Francisco to Los Angeles or New York City to Cleveland, OH with a little room for a sightseeing detour. The bloodstream to your brain is essentially the “river of life,”7 delivering oxygen, energy and nutrients while removing unhealthy toxins and cooling brain cells so they don’t burn out.
Resources
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Wesson, Kenneth A, ScienceIQ.com. Http://www.scienceiq.com/Facts/BloodBrain.cfm |
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The Franklin Institute Resources for Science Learning. Http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/fats.html |
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