>When I was one, I'd make a few exceptions each year. At the time, I was a serious competitive chess player with a well obscured tendency for occasional brillia

>When I was one, I'd make a few exceptions each year. At the time, I was a serious competitive chess player with a well obscured tendency for occasional brilliance. But mediocrity was my primary trait. On every occasion, without failure, these carnivorous exceptions would lift my mediocrity into formidable respectability. Every time. >Killing and salivating on animals for the sake of a board game is macabre. Though it was not only chess. For me, much else is affected by the absence or presence of this mysterious substance. I wish i could find the Huberman podcast episode again where he was interviewing some researcher or so who went over a wide host of less known compounds beneficial for the brain in some minor ways. Far too often he opened with having to disappoint the vegans or vegetarians because these were only found in (red) meat and/or fish or so. It's been a long time since but i remember coming to the conclusion from that and some research that whilst you didn't need to eat a lot of those for it (I'd assume less than the average western diet except maybe of fatty fish) there was no way to supplement all of them and live "optimally" without em.