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Matthew MacDonald

Your Brain: The Missing Manual

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  • b9487147443has quoted5 years ago
    From a neurological standpoint, your desire for food is ruled by a cocktail of neurotransmitters and hormones that scientists have yet to puzzle out in its entirety.
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    However, neurons don't stretch everywhere, and they aren't nuanced enough to take every interaction into account. For that reason, your brain has another system that allows it to control the body—the endocrine system.
  • b9487147443has quoted5 years ago
    When your brain needs to exert its control over a body part—either consciously or unconsciously—it simply triggers the right combination of neurons.
  • b9487147443has quoted5 years ago
    From an evolutionary standpoint, the human brain is a relatively recent development, with its sudden increase in size and pumped-up cerebral cortex happening just a few hundred thousand years ago. However, from the perspective of an individual human like yourself, the human brain is unimaginably old
  • b1561207213has quoted7 years ago
    Caffeine is sold in various permutations, including as a blend of water and roasted fruit pits (where it's called coffee) and as a mix of water and dried leaves (where it's called tea)
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    Against this backdrop
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    The set point theory suggests that your human brain has an ideal weight picked out for you
  • b1561207213has quoted7 years ago
    it isn't daft enough
  • b1561207213has quoted7 years ago
    squarely against them
  • b1561207213has quoted7 years ago
    could gorge themselves
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