Hello,
So my question is, our body uses a certain amount of energy through the day and 20% of that is used exclusively by the brain.
Why can’t we increase or decrease the calorie usage of our minds to burn more or less calories?
My own theory is that the brain runs on a base threshold of energy and it normally is around 20% but it doesn’t explain why doing brain teasers/puzzles doesn’t increase it.
And bonus if you can explain how doing extremely challenging problems for any amount of time makes you feel physically tired (such as taking a test).
Edit: there have been a amazing amount of answers while I was asleep (posted this before sleeping for a solid 10 hours), my questions about the brain functionality has been answered
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Your premise is wrong
It uses a fifth of your RESTING energy consumption. When we’re active your muscles consume much more energy than at rest. Similarly when your muscles recover they also consume more energy than normal. It’s those two together that produce the energy drain.
Practicing or neglecting your mental activity has implications for learning capacity and nutritional balance needed but is overall negligible for calories.
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