Simple body movement could help the brain ‘clean itself,’ researchers find
Exercise is widely known to benefit the brain, and researchers at Penn State recently uncovered a surprisingly mechanical reason: Each time the body moves, the brain gets a kind of "rinse."According to a study published in Nature Neuroscience, the secret to this internal wash cycle may lie in the abdominal muscles.In mice models, the researchers found that the brain is mechanically linked to the abdomen through a network of blood […]
