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So what the study is saying is that eating a diet we are evolutionary adapted to, then sleeping well makes us smart?
by elblanco 17y ago
So what the study is saying is that eating a diet we are evolutionary adapted to, then sleeping well makes us smart?
- gwern 17y agoI think I'd put it in negative terms; not that sleeping makes you smarter (because that makes it sound like sleeping is a sufficient condition), but that not sleeping prevents you from being smarter (which says sleeping is necessary but not sufficient - as it is). Ditto for vegetarian diet - not that eating meat makes you smart, but that not eating meat and not replacing the meat appropriately will prevent you from being (a little) smarter. (There are other examples, like the B vitamins that vegetarians need to watch out for, I've heard.)