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How does sleep affect your reflexes?

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Although sleep is not fully understood by scientists, their is evidence of sleep deprivation affecting reflex reaction time. Sleep deprivation affects the cortical responsiveness to incoming stimuli and also causes an increase in the levels of adenosine which is a neuromodulator and has a general inhibitory effect on neural activity. Thus due to the increase in adenosine, the neural activity and response time is greatly affected due to lack of sleep.

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Depends on what kind of exercise you do.

---- Those exercise that involve picking up heavy things ( do weights ). Decrease you reflexes ( depends on what kind of reflexes). You become slower. But if you run, and do stuff with your own weight ( push ups, pull ups. ) Then your reflexes become much better.

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A reflex comes from the origin in which is being tested. Testin the knee reflex. You could be brain dead but still produce that reflex, and or other reflexes tested. Unless the specific testing of a reflex triggering the brain is tested. Therefore, you would know damage has occurred to certain nerves. A reflex occurs at the origin!

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the more you get the better your reflexes are in the long run....

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