How Does Your Brain Clean Itself?
How Does Your Brain Clean Itself?
Your body is constantly cleaning itself and destroying strange things that wander in. But the brain isn’t connected to that cleaning service. So how does your brain take out the trash? And what’s that got to do with Alzheimer’s Disease? Turns out, scientists made an incredible new discovery this year. They discovered the glymphatic system – your brain’s garbage disposal!
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This is really interesting! 😀
I wonder how this system influences hydrocephalus, where the fluid doesn’t get removed.
Now, one has to rely on a ‘drain’ to remove the fluid from the cranium to the abdominal cavity, which means invasive surgery every 10-15 years; it would be great if that could be resolved with medicine (or something like that), which would stimulate/activate that newly discovered vascular system (wishful thinking here 😉 ).
I wonder if/hope that Alie might be able to tell something about that in a future video.
Love your videos keep up the good work…
Can you a video on how the cleanses itself as well? Thank you!
Rubbish isn the brain should be removed it automatically become brightest
fluoride heads Lol
Brain inflammation is the thanos of the brain disorder universe! Autoimmune diseases are effecting the brain
Hello mam,
Peoples are doing yoga & meditation to cure the Anxiety & get peaceful Mind . Is it scientifically work ? or is they are doing for Businesses ?
Class
Definitely a quick brown fox.
The best way to clean the brain and become fresh and increased memory and thinking speed etc is to remove inflammation(sugar)..?and this is the killer trust me people
Oh my god, this is so exciting!
I love how videos like this really show just how fearfully and wonderfully God created us, so complicated in fact, that man takes years just to figure it out!!! …. And it is so cool!!! Loved the video, and the cheer in which the lady spoke with.
How to cleanse brain memory
prost rau
I inhaled a lot of dust! Can dust get in your brain and if so will your brain clean it out?
LOVE that shirt btw ❤️
How about ringing of the brain?
Headaches and ainexty?
Thank you so much for the interesting video! I wonder what the souce of the " shrink Astrocyte during sleeping" is! Thank you 🙂
Wow your dumb
so the brain is pissing in my blood?
So not sleeping enough might be linked with dementia?
Metabolic waste.
Its always amazing to find more about what its related to sleep. Great video!
thank you
Hot chick
I just love your videos. Please keep making.
I doubt you’ll ever see this because it’s on an older video, but does sleeping at a slight angle, like with a bed that allows to be raised, effect how well the csf is able to do its job?
I know a fair bit about the brain (grad student of neuroscience), so I really enjoy when you also talk about things that are not covered by the basic lectures!
Keep it up! 🙂
Interesting video. Maybe do one on dopamine and depression? I think serotonin doesn’t do as much as they think.
Does exercise (running, swimming, walking) help in cleaning the brain and if so how ?
I have a feeling once we fully understand how we can detox our brains.. we can probably find a cure for mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and even help us cope with stress. People who abuse substances can also benefit from this as well.. but how can we fully detox our brains.. and find a way to repair it back to normal after substance abuse…. I need to find that answer.. it will change humanity…..
I love that shirt!
Fantastic video! I always learn so much from your videos 🙂
Loved the info. Loved the editing. Loved the music. LOVED the t-shirt.
So how does the brain clean itself?
Wow , One of the best episodes
Thank you soooooo much
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Very interesting, thank you Ally! 🙂
Interesting for sure. Very well explained!
This is such an awesome channel!
Mmmmmm Juicy.
this is exactly the channel I was looking for! Thank you and keep up the good work!!!
SLEEP CLEANS THE BRAIN
Is there an actual message in binary?
Thank you so much. This video is an enrichment for those people who are interested in the field of brain research.
I think that a person’s actual education is a symbiosis of school and technology platforms.
Does sleeping during the day and staying up at night reduce the efficacy of this process thereby making the brain susceptible to neurodegenerative disorders later in life?
Fascinating, hadn’t heard of the glymphatic system before 🙂