To the question “did you sleep well? “, the answer is often collegial:“no”. And if researchers were looking for the explanation for sleep disorders on the side of the brain, they now believe that it could be in our muscles! A new American study published on the Medical News Today site and conducted on mice shows the negative influence of a protein present in our muscles which leads to sleep loss. A revelation that calls into question the "full powers" of our brain.
The BMAL1 protein, found in our muscles, is part of what scientists call our “circadian clock”. More clearly, our biological clock (which turns over 24 hours) explains that we are hungry or sleepy at specific times and allows our body to recover. It turns out that this protein would be able to regulate the duration and also the quality of our sleep. It's an unpredictable breakthrough for the world of science, according to the UT Southwestern Medical Center report. Ultimately, the researchers want to refocus on the development of therapies and solutions to treat people with hypersomniacs (who need more than 10 hours of sleep per night) or suffering from narcolepsy (who fall asleep anywhere and n whenever).
This time, our brain has nothing to do with it!
