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Old Mon, Apr-03-17, 13:41
M Levac M Levac is offline
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We can certainly see the opposite with disease and behavior, where the disease affects the brain in some way. For example, scurvy and the accompanying cynicism. It's only reasonable to expect improved health to be accompanied by improved brain function. It's happened to me for sure when I first went low-carb. It wasn't just intellectual abilities, but also overall behavior that improved for me.

The late Seth Roberts did a few experiments with fat and found an effect on his mental abilities.

There's one experiment I've been looking for for a while now, it's a high school where they changed the students' diet in some way, can't remember what exactly. The point is the students' academic performance improved as a result.

To play devil's advocate for the premise, i.e. increased IQ. I prefer to think that we're restoring IQ rather than improving it, in the same way we're restoring health rather than improving it.
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