Can playing chess improve spatial areas in the brain?
As a supplement to the question "The effects of gaming on the brain"... Specifically for chess, when a player has to calculate moves they visualise the board in their mind's eye, working out what the position will look like after playing a series of moves. I wonder what changes to the brain, such as the hippocampus or spatial areas, take place as a result of this visualisation over time? When playing blindfold chess, are these changes more prominent?
Are you able to quantify what breaks a fast in relation to blood glucose levels? (W.R.T. weight loss)
I've been trying to integrate time-restricted feeding into my lifestyle (16/8 feeding window). I've done pretty well with this but I haven't quite seen the results I had hoped for. These high expectations may be influenced by what I see on /r/intermittentfasting. But I also had a suspicion that I wasn't quite adhering to it as well as I had intended. So I took advantage of the Levels black friday sale and got a continuous glucose monitor. In your IF/TRF episode you mentioned that the only way to truly know is to use a GCM and see what spikes your glucose levels. But what exactly is a spike? If my glucose level is sitting at say 70-80 mg/dL and it raises to 90. Is that enough of a "spike" to say I broke my fast? What if it quickly goes back to 70-80? Am I still experiencing the benefits of the fast or have I blown it at that point? Thank you for your podcast, I genuinely look forward to Mondays just to hear what you have to say!