Why Your Brain Hates Junk Food: Highly processed food alters liver function, making you hungrier and destroying neural resilience.

The article discusses a study from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts which suggests that highly processed food alters liver function, making a person hungrier and destroying neural resilience. The study indicates the potential of microbe-oriented diets to avert hospitalizations and result in net savings in health care costs. It explains the difference of how fructose and glucose are processed by the body, their effect on nerve growth in the brain, and the liver's impact on the brain.