Vibrating Mattresses May Help Clear A Dementia Protein, Study Finds

Summary

We know that staying physically active seems to reduce dementia risk – but in a mouse study , the motion-related protein Piezo1 seemed to be activated by vibration as well as exercise. That could be beneficial, because force-sensing Piezo1 may help to clear waste from the brain. And a gas called nitric oxide has been shown to boost the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (the liquid that surrounds and protects the brain and spinal cord), too. So, in a new paper published in Nature Communications , researchers tried to combine the two to see how they might act. “Previously,” the authors noted , “the…

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