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Chewing hard foods improves cognitive performance 🧠
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Chewing hard foods improves cognitive performance 🧠

Could chewing gum be a cognitive enhancer?

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Tom Coughlin
Sep 27, 2024
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Effects of different food hardness on cognitive inhibitory control function

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Chewing has been linked to an immediate enhancement in cognitive function 📈

This may be driven by a process called central-pattern generation, which releases serotonin 🧬

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