The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
But the point is that in 2012, a neuroscientist by the name of Maiken Nedergaard, who studies glia, a form of support cell that also plays an active role in brain function and plasticity, et cetera, she discovered that the brain has a system for clearing out waste that, by all accounts, looks a lot like the lymphatic clearance system in the rest of the body, and that it involves these cells we call glia.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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Yes, glia are involved. But by calling it the glymphatic system, people think that it's entirely different, and in fact, it's just somewhat different from the rest of the lymphatic system. And I think this so-called glymphatic system, which is the lymphatic drainage system of the brain, is so important to all of us.