Clogs Discovered in the Brain’s Mysterious Sewage System

<p>Your brain is like a factory, churning out thoughts and subconscious actions through a series of electrical and chemical reactions that work relentlessly from the instant you wake up to the moment you fall asleep, and even through the night. Like any factory, all that activity produces waste products, from toxic chemicals to misfolded proteins known to gum up the works. Until very recently, we had no clue what sort of custodial effort cleared our heads of all this cognitive sludge.</p> <p>Finally, just over a decade ago, scientists discovered a waste-disposal system that physically cleans the brain out during the&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/wise-well/the-four-stages-of-sleep-and-what-they-actually-do-d7c03ae2eb11" rel="noopener">deepest stage of sleep</a>, called slow-wave sleep.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/wise-well/troubling-clogs-found-in-the-brains-mysterious-sewage-system-8de8e35624c6"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>