Facial lymphatic vessels that drain brain toxins when massaged, could let us treat neurological diseases like alzheimers
sites • April 15, 2019
In 2015 researchers discovered functional lymphatic vessels connected to the brains drainage pathways. Your brain produces waste every day. If waste clearance slows, toxins begin to accumulate, which is strongly linked to cognitive decline.
Impaired lymphatic drainage has been associated with increased amyloid buildup, nueroinflammation, and slower cerebrospinal fluid flow. Improving the lymphatic flow may help slow progression, not cure disease.
Nuerons are wrapped in fat-based membranes and insulated by myelin, which together determine wheather signals can travel efficiently and synapses can grow. Essential fatty acids also regulate synapse formation, receptor sensitivity, and brain derived neurotrophic factor (bdnf), a key driver of learning and memory. When healthy fat intake is insufficient, nueral signaling slows, plasticity declines, and the brain becomes biologically less capable of adapting.
It travels through dense fascia regions of the neck, thoraxx, and diaphram, where tissue hydration and glide directly affect vagal signaling and autonomic regulation.
The nueral link between the pelvic floor and brain is the vagis nerve. The vagus nerve is attached to the pelvic floor, throat, and brain stem. The vagus nerve is one of the most facsia-dependant nueral structures in the body. It travels through dense fascial regions of the neck, thorax, and diaphram, where tissue hydration and gflide directly affect vagal signaling.