The Clean Janitor System

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When i was in medical school, i back in the late nineties, i remember the lecture on the lymphatic system. With an lymphatic which as the the the clean janitor us. And so what happens in sleep that is kind of like a janitorial system. Like, i've read something about how with al simers and and other brain diseases, that your brain kind of like rinses off placs perhaps. So it turns out that he in science was wrong. This fantastic searcher in maryland, she discovered itand unblanking on her name right now, nettergard, i believe was her name. Danish narro scientist, doctor mick

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