Boosting brain’s waste removal system improves memory in old mice | Researchers found that rejuvenating the lymphatic vessels in the brain enhanced recognition memory and restored synaptic function through an interleukin-6 (IL-6) pathway.

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https://medicine.washu.edu/news/boosting-brains-waste-removal-system-improves-memory-in-old-mice/

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this is probably the mechanism behind that correlation they found between sleeping pill usage and neurodegenerative disease

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What was the correlation? Sleeping pills good or bad?

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bad. my guess being because they disrupt restorative sleep and lymphatic activity (see for example alcohol and cannabis, which both help people fall asleep but the sleep quality is compromised), though that's not proven to my knowledge. alternate hypothesis would be that certain sleeping pills are toxic in some way.

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Well…eff. Alcohol messes with my sleep quality, but I found that low dose gummies aid my sleep quality.

Brain health is a priority for me… but in a high stress stem job, sleep is critical too and mo’ stress means mo’ insomnia.

Hoping that the regulatory restrictions around cannabis testing find themselves on the chopping block.