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Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke
- canadiantim 11mo agoVery interesting, especially in light of the Chinese study’s claiming to have success with a large subset of Alzheimer’s by adding a shunt to the cervical lymphatic nodes, which seems to be exactly what they’re doing here too. For those who don’t want to wait and have someone they love who can benefit from this, simply massaging the lymph nodes in the neck 10 minutes a day also significantly increases flow through these lymph nodes and thereby increases drainage of lymph from the brain.
- colordrops 11mo agoHmm, I had a bunch removed due to thyroid cancer. I wonder if that reduced my brains ability to clean itself out.
- monero-xmr 11mo agoIt will turn out we just need to sit in a box for 15 minutes a day to pound us with magnets, sound waves, and hardcore vibrations to live to 125
- hkt 11mo agoDon't forget near infrared lasers for some photobiomodulation!
- dmd 11mo agosupposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin or some other way
- calvinmorrison 11mo agoalso living on 600 calories a day of course
- bsder 11mo agoHeavy metal stops Alzheimer's! Yeah! \m/_(>_<)_\m/ Huh? What did you say? You'll have to speak up louder, though.
- canadiantim 11mo agoThe thyroid is I think far enough away from the main cervical lymph nodes and also the olfactory lymphatic drainage pathways too that I don’t think you need to worry about thyroid removal affecting the lymphatic drainage there. That being said your lymphatic drainage could still be affected by many other things. Eg do you have chronically inflamed sinuses? Difficulty breathing? These would be things pointing towards greater obstruction of the drainage pathways as it points to inflammation potentially impacting the flow of lymph out of the head/brain.
- colordrops 11mo agoNo, it spread to the cervical lymph nodes, many of which were removed.
- yosito 11mo agoIt would be really interesting if we find out that a simple 10 minute daily massage of the lymph nodes in the neck significantly prevents Alzheimer's.
- crossroadsguy 11mo ago.. and I think there are already evidence that it tends to affect people who had regular lymphatic inflammations throughout their life (on a less serious note: like yours truly's.. the neck/throat ones.. and I am already forgetting things and blanking out and I haven't even touched 40 :/).
- rowanG077 11mo agoIs this something I can do to myself? Is there some kind of video tutorial to see what I really need to do?
- drekk 11mo agoYou absolutely can! Look up "lymphatic face drainage" on YouTube, there are lots of tutorials. You can do it with just your hands or a jade gua sha tool.
- Loughla 11mo agoOther than maybe helping with Alzheimer's as claimed above, is there any benefit to this?
- femto 11mo agoI wonder if anyone has ever done a study to see if there is a correlation between daily wet facial shaving with soap and Alzheimer's? A wet shave would be a short facial massage, whilst lathering the shaving soap.
- lemonberry 11mo agoAndrew Huberman did an episode in October on the lymphatic system. I learned a lot. Highly recommend.
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- agumonkey 11mo agoMakes me wonder if body posture promoting blood flow to the head (yoga or else) can be helpful here too.
- gehwartzen 11mo agoI like hanging upside down which seems to get a lot of fluid flow to the brain. Using ankle hooks and an electric hoist or just hanging by the back of the knees over a bar.
- lanakei 11mo agoFull article: https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/scientists-unlock-brains-natural-clean-up-system-to-develop-new-treatments-for-stroke-and-other-neurological-diseases https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/scientists-unlock-brain...
- spoaceman7777 11mo agoYeah, the body-wide mucous thinning properties of NAC are one of the reasons it has racked up papers showing its efficacy in a truly staggering number of illnesses and conditions. (Including neurodegenerative diseases.) Highly recommend reading the actual literature on its effects in regard to cystic fibrosis, pancreatitis, COPD, neurodegenerative disorders, high blood pressure, ulcers, IBD, liver and kidney problems, OCD... The list goes on at a pretty extreme length, and it sounds too good to be true, but the papers are out there.
- ridgeguy 11mo agoCan you suggest a review article or two? Interested in this as my dad passed from hemorrhagic stroke, my mom from occlusive stroke. Thanks.
- Loughla 11mo agoWould also like to ask for a starting point in this. Googling has not really gotten me anywhere credible. Specifically related to stroke or high blood pressure (both family traits).
- refibrillator 11mo agoHere’s a starting point: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5241507/#B1 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5241507/#B1 TLDR: NAC is a derivative of an amino acid called cysteine, as such it is a precursor for one of the most important antioxidants in the body and it can modulate key metabolic pathways associated with good health across a variety of organs, notably for decades it has been a universally successful antidote for acetaminophen (Tylenol) overdose, it’s available over the counter but NAC is not naturally found in foods, eating cysteine-rich foods like chicken turkey yogurt etc is the next best bet.
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- Sparkyte 11mo agoI love getting my lymph nodes drained. Feels so good afterward.
- bolangi 11mo agoMainstream science has poo-poohed for years any notion that Oriental medicine practices for facilitating lymph flow have any utility. Nice to hear they're back on the allopathic table.
- Ovah 11mo agoIt's big leap to assume that massage of peripheral lymph vessels (e.g. arms and legs) affect lymph draining in the brain. I'm always a bit perplexed when people's first reaction to new hard science is to assume that it supports more or less pseudoscience. Especially in a forum where hard evidence is the norm and encouraged. Just because some research shares a noun with pseudoscience doesn't mean that X supports Y.
- canadiantim 11mo agoIt is based on hard data: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09052-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09052-5
- muhammedbash 11mo agoIs this this something that can help with autism symptoms?