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As a sleep-tech founder, I completely agree with the "don't skimp on sleep" part. * The brain doesn't work on the lymphatic system, but on the glymphatic syste
by pedalpete 4y ago
As a sleep-tech founder, I completely agree with the "don't skimp on sleep" part.
* The brain doesn't work on the lymphatic system, but on the glymphatic system [1]
* The glymphatic clearance mostly occurs in slow wave sleep, and linked to slow oscillations (just happens to be the function of sleep we are focusing on at https://soundmind.co https://soundmind.co) [2]
1 - https://neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-research/understanding-the-glymphatic-system#:~:text=The%20glymphatic%20system%20is%20a,some%20diseases%20of%20the%20brain https://neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-research/understanding....
2- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698404/#:~:text=Glymphatic%20clearance%20mainly%20occurs%20in,and%20slow%20oscillations%20%5B13%5D https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698404/#:~:tex....
- Melatonic 4y agoSeems logical then that people who develop alzheimers may have a dysfunction in this part of their sleep cycle no? Or could just be simple insomnia and years of lack of sleep
- pedalpete 4y agoCurrent belief is both. The reason you get Alzheimer's at a later stage in life is because as we age sleep degrades, a big part of this degradation is that we get less slow wave oscillations as we age. Less SWOs, means more build up of amyloids. Years of lack of sleep also leads to build up of amyloids. Of course this is only meaningful if the amyloid Alzheimer's connection is solved.