Untangling the Mysteries of the Brain

Sarah
8 min readMar 6, 2019
Photo of brain neurofibrillary tangles (the white blobs) by Gabriel Luna of the Kosik Lab at UC Santa Barbara.

A new study published mid-February in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that adrenaline boosts the body’s processes for getting rid of garbage proteins from our cells. And that, in turn, has positive implications in the body’s fight against diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s.

Well, of course, it’s a bit more complicated than that. Nevertheless, that was the one insight…

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