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
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    5 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.