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Vegetable Oils Are Your Brain's Worst Enemy
Nutrition expert, Dr. Cate Shanahan, on the hidden life-threatening food staple:
"Vegetable oils attack the brain at seven distinct vulnerability points using seven distinct strategies. All seven strategies are at work in causing autism and other childhood neurologic disorders. . if you care about your mental health, the single most important product to avoid is...vegetable oil.
Vegetable-oil-rich diets can cause dangerous oxidative stress and are an under recognized cause of heart disease and accelerated aging...Vegetable oil is undoubtedly the most unnatural product we eat in any significant amount."
Source: Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food
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Thinking Without Writing Isn't Thinking
Leslie Lamport, Computer Scientist and Turing Award Winner, on how to think and solve problems effectively:
"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking."
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You Need Two Types of Friends to Strive
Renown Silicon Valley VC, Ben Horowitz, on the friends you need to succeed:
“No matter who you are, you need two kinds of friends in your life. The first kind is one you can call when something good happens, and you need someone who will be excited for you. Not a fake excitement veiling envy, but a real excitement. You need someone who will actually be more excited for you than he would be if it had happened to him. The second kind of friend is somebody you can call when things go horribly wrong—when your life is on the line and you only have one phone call.”
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Brain Food
Today I Learned: A 1975 study discovered that severe burns can be healed by eating 35 eggs per day (Source).
Science: Drugs used to treat pain and inflammation like ibuprofen and aspirin may cause heart disease and cancer. (Source)
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The Smarter Brain is a newsletter that helps you cut through the noise on the web and save valuable time, so you can can focus on getting things done. Delivered twice a week, you’ll get bite-sized ideas and recommended tools to build better habits, improve your productivity and get smarter in less than 3 minutes.
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