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Glymphatic dysfunction hypothesis
From MEpedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of ME and CFS science and history
Glymphatic dysfunction hypothesis was developed by Dr. Peter Wostyn in 2018. It postulates that dysfunction of the waste clearance system, called the glymphatic system, causes a build-up of toxins within the central nervous system, which precipitates at least some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome.[1]
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Dr. Peter Wostyn suggests that at least some chronic fatigue syndrome patients may benefit from cerebrospinal fluid drainage thus restoring glymphatic transport and waste removal from the brain.[1]
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- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Wostyn, Peter; De Deyn, Peter Paul (September 2018). "The putative glymphatic signature of chronic fatigue syndrome: A new view on the disease pathogenesis and therapy". Medical Hypotheses. 118: 142–145. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2018.07.007.
