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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A recent study showed that patients with a highly lethal cancer had their tumors shrink, with a 100% disease control rate when given a simple mineral.
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Advanced non-small cell lung cancer is a brutal condition.
Only ~10% of people with it survive past 5 years.
This study sought to uncover the role of selenium in this cancer, and wanted to see if using it as a therapy could help.
Selenium levels are low in people with this cancer, and low selenium drives cancer in animals.
They showed that:
➤ Various immune cells were lower in cancer
➤ Selenium in serum was about 1/3 in cancer compared to health
➤ Animals on low selenium diets got cancer at nearly double the rate
➤ Animals with low selenium DIED of cancer at much higher rates
➤ Giving them more selenium in the diet restored their serum levels + immune cells back to healthy levels
So, clearly selenium is playing a central role here.
CAVITIES - A sign your internal health is deteriorating.
This is how they happen step by step and how to prevent them (🧵1/14):
UNDERSTANDING THE TOOTH.
Teeth have multiple layers, with these top 2 being most relevant for cavities.
While we often think of teeth as just these rocks that are in our mouths, they're highly structured living tissues.
1. Enamel
This is the outermost layer of the tooth, where cavities most often hit.
It's made primarily of a mineral known as hydroxyapatite - a complex of calcium, phosphate and some other elements.
We have cells called ameloblasts which regenerate the enamel, but these only present during youth.
BUT this layer can remineralize passively, meaning it can without the need for these cells to a certain degree (more on that later). 2. Dentin
This is the layer right below the enamel, and unlike the enamel this can actively regenerate via cells called the odontoblasts.
However these cells can die off if you aren't careful, especially from bacterial antigens like endotoxin.
3. Pulp
This is the soft tissue containing nerves. If your cavity reaches here, you'll need a root canal or even get a tooth yanked.
The deeper a cavity goes into the tooth, the more it will hurt.
The key to understand here is that remineralization only really happens at the very early stages of the cavity. Once it gets deep enough, you're essentially screwed.
So DON'T WAIT. You want to act preventatively.
THE CENTRAL ROLE OF ACIDITY.
This is the structure of hydroxyapatite, which is the crystal that makes up the enamel.
Acidity is an abundance of H+ ions - and these react with the PO4 molecules in the lattice to create hydrogen phosphate.
This causes the entire structure to collapse - and you get a cavity!
Thus, preventing ACIDITY in the mouth is the absolute most important thing.