Brandon Luu, MD
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Internal Medicine MD
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30 g of 85% dark chocolate daily for 3 weeks reduced negative mood and increased gut microbial diversity.
We just published the largest review of cold exposure for mental health
You don’t need to be severely dehydrated to feel awful.
At just 1.36% dehydration, women experience:
↑ Anger 8%
↑ Fatigue 17%
↑ Mood disturbance 19%
↑ Task difficulty 58%
↑ Difficulty concentrating 45%
↑ Headache severity 2x
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Frequent video gamers performed on cognitive tests like non-gamers that were ~13.7 years younger
People who ate breakfast less than once a week had ~200% higher odds of developing depressive symptoms over 3 years than daily breakfast eaters.
Death of attention by 1000 notifications
Testosterone supplementation erased the audience effect in male generosity.
Men on placebo became more prosocial when watched; testosterone-treated men did not.
In other words: they didn’t let an audience dictate their behaviour.
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