A specialized system sends pulses of pressure through the fluids in our brain.

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.

  • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      3 minutes ago

      Be careful about assuming that your drugs are what they’re talking about. Yours sound like they’re balancing you out. They could be cleaning out your brain. Make sure to look at the study carefully.