Doctors Have to Trick Your Brain’s Defenses to Heal You, Here’s Why
Your body keeps your brain and your blood separate to filter out toxins and viruses. However, this barrier might be too good at its job. This Is How Your Brain ...
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The Blood-Brain Barrier is pretty much what its name sounds like; a barrier that separates your blood from your brain. But what’s the point? Doesn’t our brain want the sweet sweet nutrients in our blood? I like to think of your brain as a nightclub, let's call it Club Head. Inside it’s popping, there’s lights and electronic music and the mood is good. The circulatory system is like the street outside the nightclub, and just anybody can walk up to the club’s door via your bloodstream. Conditions in your blood change dramatically all the time, like after you eat or exercise, but things need to be stable in your brain to keep the party going. So Club Head has a bouncer to keep the riff raff out -- the blood-brain barrier. The bouncer, in this case, are endothelial cells. T...
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The Blood-Brain Barrier is pretty much what its name sounds like; a barrier that separates your blood from your brain. But what’s the point? Doesn’t our brain want the sweet sweet nutrients in our blood? I like to think of your brain as a nightclub, let's call it Club Head. Inside it’s popping, there’s lights and electronic music and the mood is good. The circulatory system is like the street outside the nightclub, and just anybody can walk up to the club’s door via your bloodstream. Conditions in your blood change dramatically all the time, like after you eat or exercise, but things need to be stable in your brain to keep the party going. So Club Head has a bouncer to keep the riff raff out -- the blood-brain barrier. The bouncer, in this case, are endothelial cells. T...
