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Hunger is triggered largely not by the brain but by a hormone; when your stomach empties it's released and says 'eat now.' But the same hormone also sharpens memory and learning. Is thinking more clearly on an empty stomach a coincidence, or a setting left over from our hunter ancestors?
— ghrelin / hunger and cognition
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