Brain May Flush Out Toxins After A Mental Workout: Research
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The brain's waste disposal system can kick in after intense neural activity.
Mentally exhausted? Well, you are not alone. New findings hint at how you can flush out brain toxins. The findings suggest that people may be able to deliberately flush out waste products from their brain by staring at intense visual stimuli, Laura Lewis at Boston University in Massachusetts told New Scientist.
The brain's waste disposal system can kick in after intense neural activity. Although, previous studies have claimed that the brain may flush out toxins during sleep.
Edoardo Rosario de Natale at the University of Exeter in the UK told New Scientist, "The real surprise was that they found it in awake people."
The brain's waste disposal system has a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) being pumped into the brain and left through a network of fine tubes called the glymphatic system, which was discovered in 2012.
