Andrew Huberman· PhD
but everybody needs amino acids to survive, the brain needs them and we need fatty acids, especially to build a healthy brain during development, you need amino acids and fatty acids. And the sour receptor, why would we have a sour receptor? So, that we could have those really like sour candies? I think they've gotten more and more sour over the years. I admit I don't eat candy much, but I do have a particular weakness for like a really good really sour like gummy peach or they if the gummy cherries are dipped in whatever that sour powder, so I was a kid who I admit it, I liked the LIK-M-AID thing, I'd like drink the powder. Please don't do this, don't give this garbage to your kids, but I liked it, it was tasty, but sour receptors are not there so that you can ingest gummy sour gummy peaches or something like that, that's not why the system evolved, it's there and we know it's there to detect the presence of spoiled or fermented food.