r/science • u/Potential_Being_7226 PhD | Psychology | Neuroscience • 13d ago

Neuroscience 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.

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/boosting-brains-waste-removal-system-improves-memory-in-old-mice/
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u/EarthDwellant 13d ago

So our little dog that we loved dearly died in January. Since she was sick for a while we had not walked much so spouse and I started walking and discovered we loved power walking. Even when she was alive our little dog usually kept us down to .5 or .75 miles a day or less but now we do 4-5 miles every day. I noticed I started remembering my dreams again (I attribute dream loss it to overuse of THC vapes) and other short term memory issues are less than they were. I still use THC but now I remember the last time I got high.