You can literally clean out your brain doing this.
The GLYMPHATIC SYSTEM in the brain helps flush out various toxins from the cerebrospinal & interstitial fluids of the brain.
It might just be your behind fatigue, cognitive decline and even depression.
Here's how (🧵1/8):
The brain produces cerebrospinal fluid from blood for a multitude of reasons.
Your neurons need it to fire properly, and it also physically protects your brain from damage and from being too heavy.
But perhaps the most important role of CSF is to enable glymphatic clearance.
The body had the lymphatic system.
Your tissues get blood for nutrients, and they produce waste, which gets taken up by lymphatic vessels.
These drain into your lymph nodes where your immune cells can clean up various toxins, microbes, or other byproducts.
The thing is, the lymphatic system does not have a heart equivalent constantly pumping it around, so it can become stagnant if we do not manually mobilize it.
The same is true in the brain.
Cerebrospinal fluid exchanges into the brain tissue and collects waste.
This waste gets dumped into the venous region, where it ends up getting cleared into the outside of the brain (meninges).
From there it gets cleared into the lymph nodes of the neck.
So long story short, it has a lot of traveling to do and it needs help getting there.
As it turns out not clearing out this waste from the brain isn't too good for it.
Recent studies have shown that dysfunction of the glymphatic system is prevalent in depression.
They had poorer glymphatic clearance out of the brain than non-depressed individuals.
Glymphatic dysfunction can also contribute to chronic fatigue.
If you're not clearing out this waste from the brain:
◇ Oxidative stress ensues
◇ Mitochondria become dysfunctional
◇ The blood brain barrier becomes impaired
◇ The brain becomes inflamed
All key in cases of fatigue.
Draining the glymphatic system treats Alzheimer's.
Multiple animal studies have shown this improves outcomes, and now we even have some human evidence.
Amazing what happens when you focus on this.
I've covered many of the techniques to help optimize glymphatic clearance here:
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