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/Youre10PlyBud Mar 03 '25
Ha, I had a chow chow that did the same with snakes.
Found him with a rattlesnake once... I was just about to take it from him and he decided he was done with it, so he tossed the snake on the ground, put a paw on the head, bit just behind it... Then pulled back violently, skinning the whole thing.
It was actually quite disturbing but I was happy to be down a rattler.