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Can't wait for people to run with this headline and write articles about how avoiding MSG makes you smarter or something. Snark aside, I think while it's impor
by hnbad 4y ago
Can't wait for people to run with this headline and write articles about how avoiding MSG makes you smarter or something.
Snark aside, I think while it's important to understand the chemical foundation for how certain brain processes or phenomena manifest, simplifying research results to news pieces like "chemical X is why you feel bad" is very evocative of the pre-modern "humors" approach to human health. Blood pressure too high? Just drain some blood.