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ck2 | on: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
because of how we evolved biologically, there are some processes, particularly in the brain and not just the body, that can only happen during sleep

like "garbage collection"

ie. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4651462/