Sleep, Learning, Muscle, & Mitochondria [PREVIEW]

The following is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive newsletter Click the icon below to support Become Something New for the cost of just one cup of coffee per month for access to this and upcoming Patreon-only content. ☕📖🧠💪 “O lovely charms of sleep which bring such help against disease, how sweetly you came over me when I was in such …

Guide to Life-Sustaining Nutrients: Magnesium (the Near-Universal Antidote) [PREVIEW]

The following is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive newsletter Click the icon below to support Become Something New for the cost of just one cup of coffee per month for access to this and upcoming Patreon-only content. ☕📖🧠💪 The body’s magnesium status can make or break a person’s health. We often hear about the unifying factors in health, wellness, metabolism, …

BDNF Quickly Understood

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, is a nerve growth protein (neurotrophin) crucial to the development and maintenance of the human brain. When we explore and learn, BDNF is at work, restructuring the brain, growing new dendrite branches (Horch & Katz, 2002), and in turn, these activities themselves promote BDNF expression, enhancing mood and subsequent learning. …

Hamannian Hermeneutics: The Marriage of Reason & Faith (or: ‘the Letter & the Spirit’)

The Birth of the Milky Way (1636–1638) by Peter Paul Rubens “Reason is the source of all truth and of all errors. It is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Therefore, both parties are right and wrong which deify it and which vilify it. Faith, likewise, is the source of unbelief and of …

Guide to Life-Sustaining Nutrients: Vitamin K [PREVIEW]

The following is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive newsletter Click the icon below to support Become Something New for the cost of just one cup of coffee per month for access to this and upcoming Patreon-only content. ☕📖🧠💪 Vitamin K is a family of fat-soluble nutrients primarily known for their role in synthesizing blood-clotting proteins …

Guide to Life-Sustaining Nutrients: Copper [PREVIEW]

The following is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive newsletter Click the icon below to support Become Something New for the cost of just one cup of coffee per month for access to this and upcoming Patreon-only content. ☕📖🧠💪 Starting at the most vital level, copper is a mitochondrial cofactor, essential for cytochrome C oxidase (complex …

21st Century Metabolic Crisis: Intelligence, Obesity, Light, & Mitochondria [PREVIEW]

The following is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive newsletter Click the icon below to support Become Something New for the cost of just one cup of coffee per month for access to this and upcoming Patreon-only content. ☕📖🧠💪 [THE FOLLOWING IS A PREVIEW OF A FULL 10-PAGE NEWSLETTER] Obesity has tripled in the last 50 …

Physiology & Phenomenology of Life Purpose: Learned Optimism Against Misanthropic Nihilism

“...either an accommodation reached, in some kind of dignity, with the Angel of Death, or only death and the daily, tedious preparations for it. Another mode of meaning behind the obvious, or none.”—Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 Today, inquiring into life’s possible meanings, one might ask the priest, a parent, or ChatGPT, with …

Nicotine & Acetylcholine in Mood, Memory, Performance, & the Post-Viral Syndromes [PREVIEW]

The following is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive newsletter Click the icon below to support Become Something New for the cost of just one cup of coffee per month for access to this and upcoming Patreon-only content. ☕📖🧠💪 [THE FOLLOWING IS A PREVIEW OF A FULL 11-PAGE NEWSLETTER] Choline is a vitamin-like essential nutrient and …

Guide to Life-Sustaining Nutrients: Zinc [PREVIEW]

The following is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive newsletter Click the icon below to support Become Something New for the cost of just one cup of coffee per month for access to this and upcoming Patreon-only content. ☕📖🧠💪 [PREVIEW OF FULL 7-PAGE NEWSLETTER] 17% of the global population is at risk for zinc deficiency (Brown …