Andrew Huberman· PhD
But it's not so great because what that means is that in the fasted state, your perception of the outside world is actually distorted, it's blurred, it's not as precise as it is when you're fed.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
But it's not so great because what that means is that in the fasted state, your perception of the outside world is actually distorted, it's blurred, it's not as precise as it is when you're fed.
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there's a beautiful study that was published in Neuron not long ago that showed that the tuning, that is the precision with which neurons in the brain will represent things in our environment is actually much greater when there is sufficient glucose in the brain.