Didn’t carbo-load before the race? Try some brains instead! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Marathon runners rely on carbohydrates, like pasta, for energy. When that runs out, fat is next! Now guess what’s sixty percent fat? Your brain! That’s due to the fatty myelin
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Grow a backbone, will ya? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our spinal cords do more than stand us up. They carry our bodies’ nerves’ signals back and forth to our brain. These signals travel inside myelin proteins, which are kind of like wire insulation.
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Is fat LITERAL food for thought? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our brain is filled with billions of neurons that are constantly talking to each other. What helps speed up these conversations? Fatty layers of cholesterol called myelin. But diseases like Multiple Sclerosis cause
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Is fat LITERAL food for thought? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our brain is filled with billions of neurons that are constantly talking to each other. What helps speed up these conversations? Fatty layers of cholesterol called myelin. But diseases like Multiple Sclerosis cause
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