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.
You need healthy, natural sleep. Chew some valerian root and get more exercise.
If you want your brain to clean out waste at night, you need to be taking sweeping pills.
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
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
What about alcohol?
