Scientists discover brain waste routes that may explain Alzheimer's

571 points by Cristiano1 9 hours ago on reddit | 8 comments

plantsplantsplaaants | 8 hours ago

In case you have the same questions I did this is from the paper’s introduction:

“To ensure these findings reflect native protein handling, we validated our reporter using endogenous biorthogonal proteome labeling and compared our results to multiple tracer injection paradigms.”

Full disclosure I didn’t read the full paper

sweetica | 8 hours ago

I just want to know where the brain waste routes were because I read an article about a month ago that said they were in a neck muscle that extends from your ear to about your clavicle and that a healing pulse wave frequency applied to the area clears debris and increase brain waste removal.

sweetica | 7 hours ago

Okay I read it it looks like there are several places that remove waste.

The lymph nodes don't drain as much of the deep brain waste which is instead removed via the mucosal membranes in the nose.

Proteins can also slip through the tough brain barrier and slowly drain through the skull.

Brain waste is removed from whatever exit is nearest to the location in the brain.

Fascinating

0impulsecontrol | 4 hours ago

gonna put a subwoofer to my neck, I'll report back with results

JWWBurger | 3 hours ago

I wonder how listening to music loud enough impacts things lol

0impulsecontrol | 2 hours ago

I mean, you never know, there are people walking around with types of tinnitus that could be effectively treated with a bottle of water

kaffeochfika | an hour ago

Wait what? How do I Google that, please?

0impulsecontrol | 28 minutes ago

Wasn't the greatest example tbh, but google 'tinitus water bottle trick'

Google's dumb as dick AI overview will act like it knows what you're talking about and give you some AI answer about hydration, but scroll down and you'll see plenty of results. Not a cure, but provides some much needed relief for some people.