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Med Establishment STUNNED By Brain Discovery THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
Shalin Bhatt, a med student, discovered that there is a lymphatic connection with the brain (it was previously believed that there was no connection between the CNS and the lymphatic system). This discovery shows us that NOT everything has been discovered by western medicine. It also has implications for the function of the immune system and the gut-brain connection and much more.
He calls his discovery the "Cerebrolymph Hypothesis" which he describes as an "anatomical framework for where CSF is produced". CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) is produced in the deep brain region called the Choroid Plexus in the Ventricular System then it travels through the Subarachnoid Space (recently dubbed the Glymphatic System), then through the Meningeal Lymphatic Vessels into the last step (which is what he discovered) which is the Nerve-Adjacent Lymphatic Vessels Exiting Foramina. This is where the fluid then enters the Peripheral Lymphatic System, the connection was not previously known. This is essentially the "cleaning system" of the brain.
This has implications for Alzheimer's research which has thus far focused on the proteins that build up in the brain, the Amyloid Plaques and and Tau Protein, but has not included the aspect of the dynamics of the cleaning process that would normally keep these proteins from building up in the first place. This may lead to treatments that focus on repairing or maintaining the flow of lymph in the neck to treat or avoid Alzheimer's. Shalin remarks that a lot of medical research is studying and validating traditional therapies (in this case acupuncture). He mentions research showing benefits of acupuncture for Long COVID patients as well as Lymphedema and the associated brain fog. Eastern medicine often considers the importance of flow in the body- could this be a concrete example?
This same researcher also published a theory recently called Glymphovasomotor Field Theory (GVF) which takes the idea that when a fluid moves (or circulates) that has ions in it, it creates an electromagnetic current, and applies it to the brain- if the CSF has ions in it and it moves through a structured flow pattern, maybe it creates an electromagnetic field- and maybe those fields effect neurons (which operate via electrical impulses). This may have implications for consciousness.
