Somnology (SLEEP) Part 1 with W. Chris Winter
Ologies with Alie Ward
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The Cleaning Janitor
When i was in medical schooli back in the late nineties, i remember the lecture on the lymphatic system. Its getting rid of waste products, kind of flushing it out. And so what happens in sleep that is kind of like a janitorial system. Like, i've read something about how with alsimers and and other brain diseases, that your brain kind of like rinses off placs,. I don't know absolutely what kind of things are we cleaning. So if you have a busy schedule, you don't value sleep. You cana look at people on two different honest scal of the horrible insomnia patient, can't sleep, tries like crazy, desperate
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