iheartvelma:It’s literally true. Your brain, going through its job of processing signals and w
iheartvelma:It’s literally true. Your brain, going through its job of processing signals and whatnot, generates lots of little protein strands & clusters as waste; left unchecked, these build up and interfere with your brain functions. It wasn’t until recently that we were able to observe that while asleep, especially in deep sleep, blood flow to the brain is reduced, enabling the direction of your cerebrospinal fluid to reverse to flush these proteins out, where they’re broken down as waste. It is theorized that part of the cause of Alzheimer’s and similar disorders is an inability for the brain to clear these toxins out, so they form plaques that inhibit neural connections - why it’s harder to remember things, or you start losing the ability to connect objects or people with their names, or remember words. -- source link