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According to the Huberman podcast, simply elevating your legs at night can improve the glymphatic system's ability to clear out junk from our brains. I haven't been able to find any links to actual studies on that though.



Wouldn't it be elevating your head, rather than your legs? Most sources I've seen[1] that discuss inclining your bed have your head be higher up than your legs.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=incline+your+bed


I assume elevating the legs would increase blood flow to the brain? Elevating the head would presumably slightly do the opposite?


When your foot is swollen from a sprained ankle people recommend elevating it to "drain" it (I'm not sure if that is the real explanation for why, could just lower blood flow and not drain anything).




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