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Self Experiments In the Biochemically Unoptimized State

Mastering Nutrition

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The Effects of Body Fat on Nervous System Function

As a teenager and in my early 20s, I had a seemingly related but much worse problem. My college A&P teacher hypothesized that I needed a certain amount of muscle or fat to physically cushion the nerves. So my suspicion is that having a higher fat mass mitigates some aspects of the underlying problem with energy metabolism by leptin signaling convincing the brain that it is safe to raise the metabolic rateHigher body weight actually straddles with impressive precision, the tipping point between vulnerability and non-vulnerability to tingling numbness.

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