Priya Raman's articles
Neurochemist
Writes about transmitters as local signals, the split between daylight and gut serotonin, and sodium where a nerve fires.
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Why nerves misfire when you only drink water
A nerve fires on a sodium gradient. Drinking only water during long effort can wash that gradient down.
Neural chemistry -
Daylight, brain serotonin, and the gut's separate pool
Morning light reaches brain serotonin through the eye. The gut's serotonin does not commute upstairs to become a mood.
Neural chemistry -
Growth hormone waits for deep sleep, not for an early bedtime
The big growth-hormone pulse rides slow-wave sleep. Going to bed early does nothing if that deep sleep never arrives.
Hormones and signaling -
The afternoon dip is a pacing problem, not a moral one
The mid-afternoon slump is circadian and post-meal, with mitochondria supplying ATP at the pace the cell allows.
Energy metabolism