Marla Szwast

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How Low-Salt Diets Give Fuel to Addictions

The Salty Truth: Episode 6: How Eating Salt Can Keep Your Reward System in Normal Mode Our body has an amazing built-in salt thermostat. When we need more salt we crave it and when we don't need more, we don't want it. Without enough salt, we die. Sugar is a different beast.

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Exploring Intelligence - Creative Minds - Marla Szwast - Medium

Which Part of Our Mind is Not Creative? I was excited to find that Jeff Hawkins touched on the topic of creativity in his book On Intelligence. I think creativity is often highly misunderstood in our current culture. We think doing anything differently than it has been done before is creative.

Dopamine is not the Devil - Marla Szwast - Medium

When animals were deprived of dopamine, they stopped eating, if dopamine was not injected into their brains, they died of starvation, they simply did not have enough motivation to eat. (Nora Volkow, video link later in article) Dopamine is a neurotransmitter which is a chemical released by neurons in order to communicate with other neurons.

Thinking is Hard-How to Help Your Child Think

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people engage in it." - Henry Ford The first cognitive principal Daniel T. Willingham dives into in his book Why Students Don't Like School is that while curiosity is natural, thinking is hard.

Biology Lesson

Sample from Science course written for 5th graders

Stepping Through History:Starting With You!

An excerpt from a year long history course written for early elementary students. Published on a paid content website.

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