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Dr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State

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The Lymphatic Washout and the Glympatic System

I've heard about the glympatic system and the lymphatic washout. I always thought that for some reason, that now it's obvious to me there must be something mechanical going on. But here you're talking about literally an expansion and a contraction of the neurons in unison pushing the fluid through cleaning out any misfolded proteins or debris. And the consequence of that is to what? To leave the brain in a state of more pristine action for the next day? Is that right? Think of it again like a party, and if you don't clean up after that party and you try and hold another one the next day, it's going to get more clogged. People have

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