Chewing different materials affects the brain and a new study found that chewing on wood (wooden tongue depressors), compared to chewing gum, led to a significant increase in a natural brain antioxidant called glutathione, and better performance on memory tasks.

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https://www.psypost.org/chewing-wood-may-boost-memory-and-brain-antioxidants-study-finds/

[u/blowmypipipirupi]

Did they also do a test to understand if chewing a material with the same property of wood gave the same results? Or just wood vs gum?

[u/itsallinthebag → u/blowmypipipirupi]

I was wondering this too. Like what about.. raw carrot?

[u/ToSeeAgainAgainAgain → u/itsallinthebag]

That's just eating

[u/itsallinthebag → u/ToSeeAgainAgainAgain]

Sure but If they didn’t test it maybe the action of chewing something similarly hard has a similar effect