OT?: What you eat and your brain..

We have great food here. All sorts of international restaurants [1], stuff in stores, farmers' markets, gardens in back yards. Exotic veggies and beans and fish.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Hmm, an Octopus transplant would be interesting :-)

If you've ever eaten in a Russian restaurant, you'll know why. Worst cuisine in the world. Ever.

I spent a month in the USSR once. It was ghastly.

In even a fancy restaurant, you'd order from the menu and the waiter would keep saying NYET, which means we don't have that today.

Nyet piva means no beer today. The Czech beer was OK when they had it, the russian beer wasn't.

They always had canned crab meat for some reason.

I spent some time in Oxford. Aside from the usual fish-and-chips and shepherd's pie in pubs, we did find one good Italian restaurant.

The food was good in Japan and France.

There's a fake British pub in Pacifica near here. They have fish+chips but you can substitute oysters for the fish. And they have Bodington on tap.

Check youtube for pacifica drone. The pub may not last much longer.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

The human gut microbiome is clearly important, and this has been known for some years. When my wife was formally accepted as Fellow of the Royal Society I got to tag along for the the acceptance ceremonies which ran for several days. My post-doc supervisor got elevated in the same batch. Quite a few of the new medical fellows in that batch had got in for work on the human gut microbiome, which does differ quite a lot from individual to individual and can be changed by faecal transplants, yucky though they may be.

The food you put in your mouth is only one of the things that influence it. The US president clearly grew up as a spoiled brat, but bad diet was probably only one of a number of other bad influences.