
[CLASSIC POST] Book Review: The Hungry Brain
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Effects of Hormonal Damage on the v-M-N of the Hypothalamus
In the 1940s, scientists discovered that if they damaged the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus or V-M-N of rats, the rats would basically never stop eating. Later on, a strain of mutant rats was discovered that seemed to naturally have the same sort of issue despite seemingly intact hypothalami. Scientists artificially can join these rats to healthy normal rats, sewing together their circulatory systems into a single network. The result? Most slimmed back down to their normal weight.
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