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How to Clean Your Brain: No Soap for You
Each day you wake up, swing your feet over the bed and take that first yawn of the morning and you are creating garbage. Yes, garbage and it will go on for the entire day whether or not you like it. And, there’s no way to empty this personal wastepaper basket you carry around until you go to bed and to sleep at night.
But how do you do it? The solution is simple; it’s how you position your head. Researchers are scratching their heads since discovering this amazing sleep activity related to head positioning.
First, a quick look at what happens to your brain as we sleep. We now know that there is an incredible connection in the brain that allows it to have access to a “waterway” where debris can be offloaded onto a portion of the lymphatic system.
Okay, you don’t have to know about biology, so let me say that the lymphatic system is that portion of our body’s “open” system where the white blood cells dump all the dangerous and unnecessary bits in our body. It is our protective drainpipe for the brain and for the body and everything goes through it.
Ever since anatomists have been working on the body and making new discoveries, they missed the glymphatic system which is the connection between the brain and the lymphatic system. It was hidden in plain sight and they never saw it. Now that they’ve discovered it and given it a name, they have found what it’s use is incredible and adds to the importance of sleep.
Our Very Own Brain Rosehip
Along with this discovery, they found yet a new brain cell they hadn’t known about before; the Rosehip cell (neuron). The name comes from a combination of its shape, similar to what remains after a rose flower dies and leaves that bulb at the top of the stem, and a brain cell, the glial cell. Rosehips, as anyone into natural medicine knows, is a great source of Vitamin C and often used to make tea and to help with a variety of medical symptoms. They’re not sure what the rosehip cell is used for, but it’s there and waiting for new…
