{"id":191870,"date":"2024-06-26T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-brain-makes-a-lot-of-waste-now-scientists-think-they-know-where-it-goes"},"modified":"2024-06-26T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:26:30","slug":"the-brain-makes-a-lot-of-waste-now-scientists-think-they-know-where-it-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-brain-makes-a-lot-of-waste-now-scientists-think-they-know-where-it-goes","title":{"rendered":"The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brain-makes-a-lot-of-waste-now-scientists-think-they-know-where-it-goes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 170 billion cells are in the brain, and as they go about their regular tasks, they produce waste \u2014 a lot of it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The brain appears to rely on synchronized waves to wash out waste products, including toxins associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 170 billion cells are in the brain, and as they go about their regular tasks, they produce waste \u2014 a lot of it. The brain appears to rely on synchronized waves to wash out waste products, including toxins associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}