r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Mar 03 '25

Neuroscience 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.

https://www.psypost.org/chewing-wood-may-boost-memory-and-brain-antioxidants-study-finds/
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u/Stonks-13 Mar 03 '25

Reject gum, embrace the beaver within

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u/Stonks-13 Mar 03 '25

Makes sense that MIT’s mascot is a beaver

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u/Apple_remote Mar 03 '25

I’m a beaver, you’re a beaver, we are beavers all.
And when we get together, we do the beaver call.
e to the u, du/dx, e to the x, dx
Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159
Integral, radical, mu dv
Slipstick, slide rule, MIT!
GOOOOOO TECH!

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u/notashroom Mar 03 '25

This is the only cheer I knew as a child and is what I have heard in my head since then every time I ever needed π as a numerical value. Thanks Dad!