Good morning! It is the last day of July, and thus Day "31" of the Whole30, a strict 30 day plan designed by (the gorgeous) Melissa and Dallas Hartwig with no processed food, no alcohol, no legumes, no grains whatsoever, no white potatoes, no dairy (including butter), no sugar or sugar substitutes (even honey and whatnot). I don't do diets, by the way. They don't work. And they make...
Minggu, 31 Juli 2011
Kamis, 28 Juli 2011
Thanks to Tim who sent me the link to this Wall Street Journal article:Brain Shrinkage: It's Only HumanYup. Many parts wither as we age, our brains among them. Octogenarians are liable to have brains 15% smaller than Justin Bieber's brain. Imagine that! Humans it seems are unique among primates in that we are longest-lived...
Selasa, 26 Juli 2011
Yesterday, Julianne and Stabby were tweeting about this new paper, which Jamie was kind enough to send along to me later - Fatty acid-induced gut brain signaling attenuates neural and behavioral effects of sad emotions in humans.Now that title has three words I like rather a lot - "gut," "brain," and "humans." It begins to feel a little lonely sifting through the rodent literature, wondering...
Minggu, 24 Juli 2011
Greetings! I'm back in town. The tomatoes, flowers, cats, and fish survived thanks to our very able house sitter, and we're all in good spirits despite air travel with small children (and no, we were not fondled or irradiated extra times in security). Here's a new song I rather like - Whirring by The Joy Formidable (right click in new tab).We...
Kamis, 14 Juli 2011
Music to start - classical again, let's go Russian with Rimsky-Korsakov and Procession of the Nobles (right click in new tab).News next - This post will most likely be the last one for a week or more, though I'm updating a couple of older posts for Psychology Today and may post a link tomorrow. I'm on vacation. Whew. Update on the July Whole30 - finishing up Day 14, and the main thing...
Selasa, 12 Juli 2011
There is another post-worthy probiotics paper on the hopper, but before that I wanted to cover an article called Breakfast Staple Types Affect Brain Gray Matter Volume and Cognitive Function in Healthy Children (freely available on PLoS one). I like some parts of this paper, though it is observational in nature, so keep that in mind.As we all know, our big old brains develop not only prenatally,...
Sabtu, 09 Juli 2011
Everyone has been tweeting this new paper, and I have to say, it's a doozy. I don't recommend that many papers, as most are fairly painful to read (though many papers are full of interesting facts, they don't teach scientists how to write), but if you can get your hands on this one, please do so.The Intestinal Microbiota Affect Central Levels of Brain-Derived Neurotropic Factor and Behavior...
Jumat, 08 Juli 2011
There has been a flurry of rather interesting my-style Evolutionary Psychiatry papers out this week. Tomorrow (I hope), I'll review some findings about probiotics, gut microbiota, and brain function (in rodents, alas), and there is also a paper Jamie sent me about how breakfast staple types are correlated with gray matter and cognitive function in healthy children (If you have but two breakfast...
Selasa, 05 Juli 2011
I was very honored to be asked to be interviewed on the Healthy Skeptic Podcast by the amazing Chris Kresser - here's the link:Healthy Skeptic Podcast, Episode 13There's also a new paper claiming that eating fat increases appetite by modulating the endocannabinoid system - when I checked earlier the paper wasn't up on pubmed yet but I will track it down and see if it passes the sniff test. In the...
Minggu, 03 Juli 2011
At the beginning of this year, an interesting French study was published, Changes in Brain Activity After a Diet-Induced Obesity. Don't get too excited - they used pigs, not humans, specifically "mini-pigs," which sound awesome. In short, they put two sets of pigs on either standard pig crap lab diet with controlled calories to keep them lean, or a crap lab diet with extra carb and extra...
Sabtu, 02 Juli 2011
Hello there! Happy July. I've barely had a moment to do anything but tweet and follow the latest posts, but I did find this paper from January that I had meant to blog about - I believe Jamie sent it to me, and he did write about it� but it is interesting enough for a second look to be sure. I'll have a blog up on that one tomorrow.Before that, though, I'd like to point your compasses...
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