Food For Thought: Regulating Energy Supply To The Brain During Fasting
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 11:15
in Health & Medicine
If the current financial climate has taught us anything, it's that a system where over-borrowing goes unchecked eventually ends in disaster. It turns out this rule applies as much to our bodies as it does to economics. Instead of cash, our body deals in energy borrowed from muscle and given to the brain.