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Your Brain on Food
- How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings 3rd Edition
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Publisher's Summary
An internationally renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Wenk has been educating college and medical students about the brain and lecturing around the world for more than 40 years. With this essential book, he vividly demonstrates how a little knowledge about the foods and drugs we eat can teach us a lot about how our brain functions. The information is presented in an irreverent and non-judgmental manner, making it highly accessible to high school teenagers, inquisitive college students, and worried parents. Dr. Wenk has skillfully blended the highest scholarly standards with illuminating insights, gentle humor, and welcome simplicity. The intersection between brain science, drugs, food, and our cultural and religious traditions is plainly illustrated in an entirely new light.
Wenk tackles fundamental questions, including:
- Why do you wake up tired from a good long sleep and why does your sleepy brain crave coffee and donuts?
- How can understanding a voodoo curse explain why it is so hard to stop smoking?
- Why is a vegetarian or gluten-free diet not always the healthier option for the brain?
- How can liposuction improve brain function?
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- Elizabeth
- 2021-04-11
Not What I Expected
This book should be called "Your Brain on Drugs," qa it hardly discusses food and highly discusses both legal and illegal/decriminalized drugs and their effects on the brain. The tone of the author was also really annoying. I'm agnostic but I really disliked how much he painted people of faith to be looney and disparaged most things that aren't western pharmacology. There are many things we have yet to study from the East, some of which will prove to have merit and some of which won't. Yoga and meditation used to be thought as something only a granola loving Californian would do, but now scientists have proved they're actually excellent for mental health. I wanted to know how food impacted my brain, not how the vikings drank each others piss after taking drugs to recycle them (yes, there are several references to the historical consumption of pee in this book).The one chapter I did find interesting was the one that compared Glutamate and GABA but I found an error in it. The author claims that you cannot add more GABA to your brain but there is an enzyme called Glutamate Decarboxalyse 67 which actually works to transform Glutamate into GABA in the brain, balancing them out. This enzyme is in lactic acid which is in fermented foods so it is possible to eat your way to a more balanced brain.
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