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Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste

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Anesthesia and sleeping pills shut this process down nearly completely.

The glymphatic clearance in the brain is mediated by a hormone called norepinephrine.

It only worked when sleep was natural, but it was unknown what it was about sleep that initiated this cleaning process, Natalie Hauglund says.

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