{"id":9376,"date":"2017-05-10T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2017-05-10T08:17:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:17:18","slug":"fat-dumb-and-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/10\/fat-dumb-and-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat, Dumb, And Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evolutionarily, it makes sense. Ever feel hungry? It’s caused by a hormone named ghrelin<\/em><\/a>. Apparently it’s multi-use, as Clare Wilson reports<\/a> in NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (29 April 2017):<\/p>\n

But there is also evidence that ghrelin can enhance cognition. Animals fed reduced-calorie diets have better mental abilities<\/a>. Injecting ghrelin into mice improves their performance in learning and memory tests<\/a>, and seems to boost the number of connections in their brains.<\/p>\n

Now Jeffrey Davies<\/a> at Swansea University, UK, and his team have found further evidence that ghrelin can stimulate brain cells to divide and multiply, a process called neurogenesis. When they added the hormone to mouse brain cells grown in a dish, it switched on a gene known to trigger neurogenesis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So if your immediate problem is a lack of food, you get sharper; but once you’ve satisfied that, you go into drowse mode. And then the tiger takes you<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So far, it’s not clear if fasting helps protect the brain, but it’s an interesting thought. Personally, I find “hunger headaches” to be blinding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evolutionarily, it makes sense. Ever feel hungry? It’s caused by a hormone named ghrelin. Apparently it’s multi-use, as Clare Wilson reports in NewScientist (29 April 2017): But there is also evidence that ghrelin can enhance cognition. Animals fed reduced-calorie diets have better mental abilities. Injecting ghrelin into mice improves their \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9382,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions\/9382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}