Your brain contains a vast network of connections capable of performing 20 million-billion calculations per second.
Get that? Not 20 million. Not even 20 billion. But 20 million-billion. How does it work?
In short, neurons power the message, neurotransmitters create the message and receptors receive the message.1 Without proper nutrition, the network can’t make additional connections and brain function suffers.
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