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To me, this article boiled down to two sentences: "Cerebrospinal fluid flowed along the outside of blood vessels, carried through a network of pipe-like protein structures. The fluid picked up waste that accumulated between cells, then drained out through major veins."

Unfortunately, it didn't deal with intracellular waste, which is a major issue over a lifetime. The only known way of addressing that is through caloric restriction. Some links:

http://www.hyperink.com/Fasting-For-Cleansing-Autophagy-b274...

http://www.pittsburghpatrika.com/2012/06/fasting-is-good-for...

http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v12/n2s/fig_tab/4401728ft....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670399/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16874025

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996109...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670399/

Bottom line, there is NO FREE LUNCH!



Consuming trehalose (a sugar) may also help.

http://metamodern.com/2010/09/15/trehalose-autophagy-and-bra...


So does intermittent fasting: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/fasting-brain-function/#axzz2...

I mention that because I hate calorie restriction.




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