[Lhiw]

The brain seems to have control over more of the body than we thought.

Is there potential treatments that could result from this?

I wonder if type one also exhibits this trait?

[kayodelycaon]

The brain and body are very much connected. Being bipolar, I am keenly aware of this.

Depression is a lot like being severely sick. Even if you manage to keep up exercise and diet, physical health takes a dive.

Mania… everything goes into overdrive. The necessary repair work isn’t being done, even if you get enough sleep.

Eating the wrong food or too much exertion can trigger episodes.

Mental health is very much tied to physical health. And vice-versa.

[guywhocodes]

I only read the abstract and it suggests a direction of causation that the experiment does not give.

I'll read this in full when I have time but I would be very surprised if the causation is not completely reverse of what is suggested.

[beowulfey]

What are you suggesting the causation is exactly? That blood sugar levels affect our perception of time?

[klyrs]

Take it a step further. Does our blood sugar affect the rate at which clocks advance? Because, according to the (rather digestible) article, that was the controlled variable.

[ianmcgowan]

That doesn't sound impossible. Like a CPU running slower when the power is janky, there's something appealing to the thought that we experience the passage of time differently based on internal physical processes. There's the trope of "time standing still" when some intense experience is happening - perhaps flooding the system with adrenaline has the opposite effect and speeds up perceived time?

[FeepingCreature]

That was my first thought.