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Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste (arstechnica.com)

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Her study found the glymphatic clearance was mediated by a hormone called norepinephrine and happened almost exclusively during the NREM sleep phase. But it only worked when sleep was natural. Anesthesia and sleeping pills shut this process down nearly completely.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 hours ago

This has been fairly well known for at least 15 years among medi-academia. But discovering the specific pathways involved leaves me (femininely) turgid