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If I find I can't open a door, it cllouls be because there is a lock. If I remove the lock does that mean the door can be opened? No, there might be another lock, or rusty hinges, or nails to the frame.

Just because we might be able to remediate this one mechanism in the gut doesn't mean we can solve sleep. What about memory formation? Or immune system effects of sleep?

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I think you misunderstood? I meant: we understand one way in which sleep loss can kill sufficiently well that we don't need to describe its lethality as "oddly hard to explain". That doesn't mean there isn't more to learn about sleep, or other things about sleep that are, indeed, oddly hard to explain.

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