Her study found the glymphatic clearance was mediated by a hormone called norepinephrine and happened almost exclusively during the NREM sleep phase. But it only worked when sleep was natural. Anesthesia and sleeping pills shut this process down nearly completely.
This has been fairly well known for at least 15 years among medi-academia. But discovering the specific pathways involved leaves me (femininely) turgid
Obviously I understand what femininely turgid means but can you explain it just in case somebody else doesn’t know?
ie: ladyboner, the old slip n slide, juices flowing, mine honeypot overfloweth
I have ADHD. Without drugs, I only sleep during the day, and sometimes, I’ll skip a day and feel like crap about it no matter what I do.
I mean without drugs. I used to be an all-natural whackadoo.
Nowadays I do drugs about it and I’m allowed to be a real human. Guess my brain will clean itself when I die.
you probably just need fresh nutrients
The study was only on zolpidem. IMO it can probably be generalised to other Z drugs, and possibly benzos. Drugs that work by entirely different mechanisms like melatonin and orexin antagonists could be completely different.
Alcohol and weed does the same thing, just because you are out. Doesn’t mean you are sleeping.
Good to see this common sense being confirmed
What about alcohol?
