On: Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice

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In case you didn't know, sleeping on your right side maximizes the clearance effect, while sleeping on your stomach minimizes it.

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Citation? I've always read that for humans it's better to sleep on the left, for digestion anyway.

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[in mice]

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I'm imagining a row of little mice sleeping on their right side in a lab experiment

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In some branches of yoga, they strongly encourage you to sleep on your right side. I always thought it was nonsense...

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And yet sleeping on your back contributes to snoring and sleep apnea.

Humans. Just can't win can they.

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Could you point us to the source?

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The Effect of Body Posture on Brain Glymphatic Transport

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524974/#!po=72...

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Wait.. was that in the paper or is there a different source for this?