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Quantity has supremely overtaken quality.

Ever thus, bad drives out good, be it money, fuel, behaviour. Innumerable species have come and gone because of poor quality decision-making, ie. convenience predominating discretion.

The “fittest” humans may survive but “equality” will not be a defining characteristic behaviour. Hopefully, your Clinic of the Future articles catch hold and become common and abundant SENSE.

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Excellent POV, and when laid out this way it should appear obvious this is the case.

We often forget (or leave out of conversation) that our neurotransmitters are simply metabolites, and vitamins are the cofactors required for the enzymes that make neurotransmitters.

Glutamate (one reaction away from GABA), tryptophan, tyrosine, etc are simply made of the carbons and nitrogens in the carbs, fats, and proteins we ingest, and are either transported into the brain, or synthesized there (largely due to the mitochondrial machinery). The micronutrients are essential for the enzymes that synthesize.

I agree we can no longer think of the brain as a system isolated from the rest of the body and environment; metabolism is one unifying mechanism.

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