. . . and little things that make me sigh: people who will acknowledge that frying with vegetable oil is unhealthy and yet think that polyunsaturated fats are good for you in low-temperature cooking. Increasing ambient temperature is just one way to facilitate (lipid) oxidation; lowering ambient pH is another. What do you think is happening when ( Read more... )

So I already know that the insulin spike you get from eating a big bowl of rice increases tryptophan uptake to the brain, which should also increase the amount of turnover of serotonin to melatonin, making you sleepier all else equal. Turns out rice, seeds and other edible plants also have a lot of melatonin in them, much of which is absorbed into ( Read more... )

So I'm refreshing myself on what happens when you go abruptly hypoglycemic, and I'm reading about the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system response. Sweating, tachycardia, tremor, dysphoria, all the sequelae of adrenaline release -- then it hits me: this is a panic attack. How many people out there think they have a psychological disorder ( Read more... )