Andrew Huberman· PhD
Fortunately, she ended up at the National Institutes of Health funded a lot of great work, including the later work that Dr. Nedergaard used to discover that there is, in fact, a lymphatic system in the brain.
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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.
Fortunately, she ended up at the National Institutes of Health funded a lot of great work, including the later work that Dr. Nedergaard used to discover that there is, in fact, a lymphatic system in the brain.
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The first person to find it was a woman by the name of Patricia Grady. She was at the University of Maryland, and she was doing some experiments, and she discovered that the brain has something kind of like a lymphatic system, okay? She was doing some injections of this dye, which gets circulated, and she noticed some of this dye was making it along the perivascular areas and now into the surface of the brain, and so on, basically the same observation that was made in 2012, but much earlier.