Been reading up about a few things recently due to family members ill health and this is quite interesting so thought id share : Sleep. Excercise not only helps tire the body out naturally, it promotes endorphins which will help you sleep properly and in routines. If you dont sleep, properly, the brain cant clear out the waste toxins - bbc.co.uk/news/health-24567412 The main of your body has a lymphatic system but the brain has a seperate glymphatic system - which carry waste material out of the brain. If you dont sleep properly, this can lead to things like Alzeimers. brainscienceinstitute.org/.../the_relationship... TED did a very good talk on it : ted/.../jeff_iliff_one_more.../transcript... Sleep, then, is part of the brains solution to the problem of waste clearance, then this may dramatically change how we think about the relationship between sleep, amyloid-beta, and Alzheimers disease. A series of recent clinical studies suggest that among patients who havent yet developed Alzheimers disease, worsening sleep quality and sleep duration are associated with a greater amount of amyloid-beta building up in the brain, and while its important to point out that these studies dont prove that lack of sleep or poor sleep cause Alzheimers disease, they do suggest that the failure of the brain to keep its house clean by clearing away waste like amyloid-beta may contribute to the development of conditions like Alzheimers.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:55:19 +0000
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