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Your Brain Is Getting Weaker

Daily Chase #130

Oct 31, 2025
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We track physical obesity carefully. We measure it, study it, create interventions around it. We know that eating ultra-processed food and not exercising leads to predictable health problems.

But we’re ignoring cognitive obesity.

Your brain is starving for contemplation. It’s losing its ability to take in complex information and make sense of it. It’s for…

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