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.
