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		foobarbazqux on Oct 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain Well, it's a testable hypothesis. We will probably never test it in humans or higher mammals due to ethical concerns.

VladRussian2 on Oct 17, 2013 [–]

may be we willn't as we already did. Google "sleep deprivation experiment".

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