March 3, 2006

Empty stomach

Your best learning may be done on an empty stomach.

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have found evidence that that learning and memory are stimulated by a gut hormone, ghrelin, which is highest when your stomach is empty.

Is the growing obesity problem in the country connected to the growing stupidity problem? Seems so.

Posted by Jill Fallon at March 3, 2006 3:27 PM | Permalink