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GAINZZZVia dri in the sidebar, scientists say that carbohydrates are as addictive as cigarettes and should be redefined as drugs. Okay so that's too hype-y and if you take them literally it's fascist. But the general idea that carbohydrates have a powerful drug-like effect is true enough. I eat a lot of low-carb stuff. You miss the carbs even when the taste is about the same. Carbs light up the brain with a sense of satisfaction and wellness that doesn't have anything to do with taste or the pleasure of eating. I know when I indulge a lot of carbs, I feel a real sense of stupor. (And later, a carb hangover where I say, "Never again." But that's always a lie.)
So this is food fascism and I don't support it. Dr. Robert Lustig talks like this... and then I tune out. But again, yeah, very dense carbohydrate food is something we were not designed to eat. There's nothing like that occurring in nature. Highly-processed foods should be reclassified as drugs because they are as addictive and harmful as cigarettes, scientists argue. Gary Taubes' books The Case Against Sugar and Why We Get Fat are both really good. I always mention this: they did the same thing with to "prove" that it wasn't sugar that causes weight gain, but fat, and that it wasn't sugar and carbohydrate that causes heart attacks, but fat, that they did to "prove" global warming: they convened a conference with handpicked "experts," all of whom were already known to support these hypotheses, then they... took a vote, then presented that vote to the world of proof of the Fat-Diet Hypothesis of heart disease, and also, proof that sugar and carbohydrates had nothing to do with heart disease. They had a vote, you see. Proof! And then the government enforced this "consensus view" on the public and pressured industry to make "heart healthy" foods low in fat but very, very high in sugar and carbohydrate. These books are lot more exciting -- infuriating, to be precise -- than you'd expect books about the history of nutrition to be.
Really? Perhaps to no one's surprise, new research has determined that men do, in fact, have a much stronger sex drive than women. But they have to find a way to cast doubt on this, to support (some) women's assertions than "women's sex drives are just as strong as men's."
Still, the researchers pointed out exceptions to the rule.
Wise man. Other people quote "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" as the most inspirational Reagan quote. For me, it's the one about being lazy as a general principle. Turns out Reagan was wiser than we even knew. A recent study that scanned people's brains at different points in their work day found high-demand tasks which require intense, constant concentration can lead to build-up of a potentially toxic chemical called glutamate. The scientists tested people who were sat in front of computers performing tasks that required high-demand focus, and another group that performed low-demand focus tasks. I'm going to spare you the details and cut to the shocking findings: People who did a day's work of high-demand work at a computer had a build-up of glutamate and, in a test after work, had less focus and energy and patience and spent less time making decisions. In other words, being mentally exhausted from work mentally exhausted them and they didn't want to do any more mentally-exhausting work. Seriously we're paying people for this? What the hell? It's not even a new finding that fatigue is caused by a build-up of a fatigue-causing chemical -- sleepiness is brought on by the accumulation of adenosine in the brain, which builds up in the brain throughout the working day.
A melatonin supplement appears to be effective at helping people who take it fall asleep, but it may also cause nightmares and potentially disrupt the body's natural clock when used inappropriately, experts told UPI. Besides not helping people stay asleep, melatonin can also cause nightmares. Andrew Huberman warned against taking exogenous (outside) melatonin, because your body produces its own melatonin, and if you're taking outside melatonin, especially in the huge "supraphysiologic" doses usually available in pills, will reduce your body's ability to make its own melatonin. I think I've heard either him or someone else say the most melatonin you should take is 0.5 mg -- which is much less than a standard dose. It usually comes in pills of 1 mg, 3 mg, 5 mg, or even 10 mg. And he points out that a survey of different pills found that the actual amount of melatonin found in commercially available pills ranged from 15% of the listed dosage, to 400% of the listed dosage. He especially warns against taking it if you're still in puberty, because it suppresses puberty. But it probably also continues regulating other hormones in adulthood. For a while I was cutting 1 mg pills in half to get 0.5 mg but I decided it wasn't worth the hassle. Huberman offers his own preferred "sleep stack" of supplements here. One of the supplements is found in chamomile, so all of the badasses out there are already well-stocked with that. I've been working on No-Handed Push-Ups. Maybe we can have a Blog Challenge to see who is the first to do a proper one.
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