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Enhancing the Glymphatic System Through Sleep and Serotonin
1:00:14 - 1:12:52 (12:38)
By increasing the activity of the glymphatic system through practices like sleeping with your feet elevated, we can potentially improve its effectiveness and reduce iron levels. Laboratory studies are exploring using serotonin supplementation to further enhance glymphatic circulation.
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Elevating your heels while sleeping can enhance glymphatic washout or clearance, leading to better waste removal from the brain during sleep.
1:00:14 - 1:03:30 (03:16)
Summary
Elevating your heels while sleeping can enhance glymphatic washout or clearance, leading to better waste removal from the brain during sleep. While 5-HTP supplementation can disrupt the normal sleep architecture, studies are underway to investigate the role of augmenting the serotonin system in increasing glymphatic system circulation, but there are other ways to increase its activity naturally.
ChapterEnhancing the Glymphatic System Through Sleep and Serotonin
EpisodeUsing Your Nervous System to Enhance Your Immune System
PodcastHuberman Lab
Increasing the activity of the glymphatic system can be done through elevating the feet during deep sleep, doing a reverie script, or taking a hot shower, leading to potential benefits for sickness behavior, inflammation, and aging-related neuron damage.
1:03:30 - 1:07:30 (03:59)
Summary
Increasing the activity of the glymphatic system can be done through elevating the feet during deep sleep, doing a reverie script, or taking a hot shower, leading to potential benefits for sickness behavior, inflammation, and aging-related neuron damage.
ChapterEnhancing the Glymphatic System Through Sleep and Serotonin
EpisodeUsing Your Nervous System to Enhance Your Immune System
PodcastHuberman Lab
A 15 minute sauna session can increase white blood cell profiles and adjust cortisol levels in ways that are beneficial for combating infection; caution is advised for those who are running a fever as it can take body temperature into dangerously high levels.
1:07:30 - 1:11:00 (03:30)
Summary
A 15 minute sauna session can increase white blood cell profiles and adjust cortisol levels in ways that are beneficial for combating infection; caution is advised for those who are running a fever as it can take body temperature into dangerously high levels.
ChapterEnhancing the Glymphatic System Through Sleep and Serotonin
EpisodeUsing Your Nervous System to Enhance Your Immune System
PodcastHuberman Lab
The phrase "feed a fever, starve a cold" may have originated from the adaptive function of fever, making it challenging for viruses and bacteria to survive while highly elevated temperatures pose a danger to the body.
1:11:00 - 1:12:52 (01:52)
Summary
The phrase "feed a fever, starve a cold" may have originated from the adaptive function of fever, making it challenging for viruses and bacteria to survive while highly elevated temperatures pose a danger to the body. Feeding increases body temperature, while prolonged fasting releases epinephrine in the brain and body.