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How Yoga Enhances The Glymphatic And Lymphatic System To Clear Potentially Neurotoxic Waste And Thereby Help Steady The Fluctuations Of The Mind.
How Yoga Enhances The Glymphatic And Lymphatic System To Clear Potentially Neurotoxic Waste And Thereby Help Steady The Fluctuations Of The Mind. The quality of sleep plays a fundamental role for the efficiency of these cleaning and clearing mechanisms. Focusing specifically on the fairly recent discovery of the glymphatic system [2] as well as lymphatic vessels in the brain and the important role that sleep plays with the removal of waste, apana, I propose that yoga can play an integral role by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system and thereby both enhancing sleep, as well as boosting the immune system.