{"id":14408,"date":"2019-11-01T09:12:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14408"},"modified":"2019-11-01T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:12:18","slug":"how-deep-sleep-may-help-the-brain-clear-alzheimers-toxins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14408","title":{"rendered":"How Deep Sleep May Help The Brain Clear Alzheimer&#8217;s Toxins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>The brain waves generated during deep sleep appear to trigger a cleaning system in the brain that protects it against Alzheimer&#8217;s and other neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Electrical signals known as slow waves appear just before a pulse of fluid washes through the brain, presumably removing toxins associated with Alzheimer&#8217;s, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/10\/31\/775068218\/how-deep-sleep-may-help-the-brain-clear-alzheimers-toxins\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) The brain waves generated during deep sleep appear to trigger a cleaning system in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14409,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408\/revisions\/14409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}