
Your Brain Is Not What You Think It Is, with Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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The Cost of Metabolic Efficiency in the Brain
Your brain costs you 20% of your metabolic budget. It's a very expensive organ to keep running. There is some genetic upregulation in the human brain that makes it more expensive to run, particularly in the cerebral cortex. If your energy regulation is not proceeding in a metabolic-efficient way, you will get sick.
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