Deans' stroke musings: Yawning May Help Flush Waste From Your Brain, Early Research Suggests

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Yawning May Help Flush Waste From Your Brain, Early Research Suggests

Your competent? doctor already has created brain waste removal protocols, right? Only 5+ years and even your board of directors is so incompetent they don't know they are running an INCOMPETENT HOSPITAL?

Send me personal hate mail on this: oc1dean@gmail.com. I'll print your complete statement with your name and title(If you can't stand by your name don't bother replying anonymously) and my response in my blog. Or are you afraid to engage with my stroke-addled mind? No excuses are allowed! You're medically trained; it should be simple to precisely state EXACTLY WHERE I'M WRONG.

brain waste removal (25 posts to September2018)

Yawning May Help Flush Waste From Your Brain, Early Research Suggests

New research suggests yawning might help your ‘glymphatic system’—aka the brain’s waste clearance pathway.

In a small study of 22 participants who underwent MRI scans, yawning sent cerebrospinal fluid (or CSF) away from the brain. This suggests that it “reorganizes neurofluid flow,” per the researchers.

Experts suggest yawning might be a “potential backup system” for the brain, acting as a sort of backup pump to clear brain waste.

It can be hard to stop a yawn once the urge strikes, but now, new research suggests that going with it might be good for you. The latest study suggests that yawning might actually help “clean” your brain by facilitating fluid movement along brain waste-clearance pathways.

While yawning in the middle of your boss’s big work presentation might not ever be socially acceptable, you can at least console yourself with the knowledge that the yawn you just unleashed may help your brain.

Before you start yawning all day, every day in the name of health, know this: The study didn’t definitively prove that yawning is good for you—but it had some interesting findings that suggest a good yawn here and there might help more than hurt. Here’s the deal.