Ancestors

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-12 at 16:15

In 2012, Maiken Nedergaard and her colleagues at the University of Rochester discovered the brain glymphatic pathway, the brain’s plumbing system similar to lymphatics in the body (but without lymph nodes), which consists of a network of fluid-filled and water channels ...

alongside (para) blood vessels to drain chemical waste, and facilitate movement of cerebrospinal fluid.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/our-sleep-brain-aging-and-waste-clearance

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Descendants

Written by whoosh on 2025-01-12 at 16:31

"In the last decade a whole body of knowledge has emerged about the brain’s drainage system—glymphatics— and the accompanying key components of the system that efficiently rids us of unwanted molecular waste every day. The dramatic impact of non-REM sleep, particularly stage 3 slow-wave deep sleep, cannot be emphasized enough.

Ironically, Ambien, a commonly used drug to help people sleep, backfires and actually suppresses waste disposal."

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