Dr. Darren Candow

But what if you're stressed?

Sleep deprivation, your dog got you up in the middle of the night to pee and you couldn't fall back to sleep.

University students cramming for a midterm.

Now all the countries look at the World Cup, they're gonna be up stress, you know, different time zones.

Then all of a sudden the healthy brain becomes a metabolically stressed brain.

So your guess about 10 grams on average is fine because the brain on a non-stress day is naturally making enough and it's healthy.

But now we get into a more difficult.

What about those metabolic stressors?

So again, all the neurons in the brain are being used.

So what about sleep deprivation?

10 grams?

For sleep deprived?

When was the last time you slept 10 straight hours?

It's been a while.

It's been a while.

For even you to pause there, that's alarming because you're thinking, when was the last time I got a really good night's sleep?

What if you were up for 24 hours?

An ER doctor, traveling different time zones, all these come into play.

Remember, on a healthy brain, adequate sleep, the brain is actually making enough.

But when you're stressed-