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#147 - Does Sleep Really Clean Your Brain? artwork
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#147 - Does Sleep Really Clean Your Brain?

The Matt Walker Podcast by Dr. Matt Walker

Aug 10, 202625:18Health

Matt explores the brain's secret plumbing, a waste-clearance network once ignored for over a century. He explains how the glymphatic system flushes metabolic toxins like amyloid-beta during sleep. This "night shift" allo...

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