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It is just a large primate brain.

Well, other people have figured out how much energy the human brain and that of other species costs, and now that we knew how many neurons each brain was made of, we could do the math.

So the total energetic cost of a brain is a simple, linear function of its number of neurons, and it turns out that the human brain costs just as much energy as you would expect.

So the reason why the human brain costs so much energy is simply because it has a huge number of neurons, and because we are primates with many more neurons for a given body size than any other animal, the relative cost of our brain is large, but just because we're primates, not because we're special.

Last question, then: how did we come by this remarkable number of neurons, and in particular, if great apes are larger than we are, why don't they have a larger brain than we do, with more neurons?

When we realized how much expensive it is to have a lot of neurons in the brain, I figured, maybe there's a simple reason.

We calculated on the one hand how much energy a primate gets per day from eating raw foods, and on the other hand, how much energy a body of a certain size costs and how much energy a brain of a certain number of neurons costs, and we looked for the combinations of body size and number of brain neurons that a primate could afford if it ate a certain number of hours per day.

Well, if our brain costs just as much energy as it should, and if we can't spend every waking hour of the day feeding, then the only alternative, really, is to somehow get more energy out of the same foods.

So because of cooking, what once was a major liability, this large, dangerously expensive brain with a lot of neurons, could now become a major asset, now that we could both afford the energy for a lot of neurons and the time to do interesting things with them.

So I think this explains why the human brain grew to become so large so fast in evolution, all of the while remaining just a primate brain.

With this large brain now affordable by cooking, we went rapidly from raw foods to culture, agriculture, civilization, grocery stores, electricity, refrigerators, all of those things that nowadays allow us to get all the energy we need for the whole day in a single sitting at your favorite fast food joint.

Studying the human brain changed the way I think about food.

Firstly, there are several hormone-producing glands: three in your brain, and seven in the rest of your body.

That’s because hormones can influence the production of certain chemicals in the brain, like serotonin.

But research shows that our behavior is collectively shaped by a variety of influences, including the brain and its neurotransmitters, our hormones, and various social factors.

But of course there are skeptics who say if we look at the evidence of science, particularly neuroscience, it suggests that your mind, your essence, the real you, is very much dependent on a particular part of your body, that is, your brain.

If you have brain cancer, and you say that standing on your head for 20 minutes every morning makes you feel better, it may make you feel better, but you still have brain cancer, and you'll still probably die from it.

"But," he said to me, "I heard about a protocol at Mass General for a procedure called a cingulotomy, which is a brain surgery, and I think I'm going to give that a try."

I felt that funeral in my brain, and I sat next to the colossus at the edge of the world, and I have discovered something inside of myself that I would have to call a soul that I had never formulated until that day 20 years ago when hell came to pay me a surprise visit.

And all this past year in training, I had that Teddy Roosevelt quote to paraphrase it, floating around in my brain.

What most people don't realize is that hunger and energy use are controlled by the brain, mostly without your awareness.

Your brain also has its own sense of what you should weigh, no matter what you consciously believe.

The hypothalamus, the part of the brain that regulates body weight, there are more than a dozen chemical signals in the brain that tell your body to gain weight, more than another dozen that tell your body to lose it, and the system works like a thermostat, responding to signals from the body by adjusting hunger, activity and metabolism, to keep your weight stable as conditions change.

Your brain works exactly the same way, responding to weight loss by using powerful tools to push your body back to what it considers normal.

If you lose a lot of weight, your brain reacts as if you were starving, and whether you started out fat or thin, your brain's response is exactly the same.

We would love to think that your brain could tell whether you need to lose weight or not, but it can't.

Even after you've kept the weight off for as long as seven years, your brain keeps trying to make you gain it back.

If you stay at a high weight for too long, probably a matter of years for most of us, your brain may decide that that's the new normal.

It's like aliens have taken over my brain.

So, he was occupying every part of my brain.

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