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Neuroscience Reveals What Fasting Does To The Brain (And Why Big Pharma and the Food Industry Won’t Study It)

by ideapod | May 8, 2017 | Mind & Brain | I came across this TEDx talk given by Mark Mattson, the current Chief of the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging. It presents some fascinating details about fasting and why it isn’t as popular as it should be. Many research studies are showing its benefits. This article by Authority Nutrition highlights 10 evidence-based health benefits of fasting that studies have found. These include weight loss, lower blood pressure and reduced cholesterol. But the real interesting question is, why won’t the pharmaceutical industry study it? Here is a transcript of a section of Mark Mattson’s talk which hints at these questions: “Why is it that the normal diet is three meals a day plus snacks? It isn’t that it’s the healthiest eating pattern, now that’s my opinion but I think there is a lot of evidence to…

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America’s Cult of Ignorance—And the Death of Expertise

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast Excerpt America's Cult of Ignorance—And the Death of Expertise More people are better educated than ever before, and knowledge is easier to come by. So why do we so often scorn those who plainly know more than we do? Tom Nichols 04.01.17 12:01 AM ET “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” —Isaac Asimov In the early ’90s, a small group of “AIDS denialists,” including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment’s consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such…

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