Mind & Matter Newsletter

Mind & Matter Newsletter

What you take in—be it food, medications, or concepts—shapes your identity. Tune in to gain insights from top scientists and thought leaders on how your body and mind respond to different inputs. New episodes are released every week. Please note, this is not medical advice.

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  • 6 days ago | mindandmatter.substack.com | Nick Jikomes

    Not medical advice. The full article is initially available only to paid subscribers, but will become freely available to all within one week of initial publication. This content draws from two M&M podcasts that focus on 2025 studies linking ω-6 PUFAs to cancer.

  • 1 week ago | mindandmatter.substack.com | Nick Jikomes |Nikos Koundouros |John Blenis

    Episode Summary: New research on how dietary fats, particularly omega-6 fatty acids like linoleic acid, influence triple-negative breast cancer progression by activating the mTOR pathway, a key regulator of cell growth. They explore the role of the FABP5 protein in enhancing cancer cells’ sensitivity to omega-6 fats, the differences between breast cancer subtypes, and the broader implications of dietary balance for health, emphasizing the need for personalized nutrition strategies.

  • 1 week ago | mindandmatter.substack.com | Nick Jikomes |György Buzsáki

    Episode Summary: Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki discusses the hippocampus’s role beyond memory and spatial navigation, delving into its broader functions in cognition, action planning, and brain-body interactions; how hippocampal rhythms, like sharp wave ripples, influence memory consolidation, glucose regulation, and metabolic health, challenging conventional neuroscience assumptions; the interplay of brain rhythms, sleep, and preconfigured neural dynamics; the history and conceptual foundations of...

  • 2 weeks ago | mindandmatter.substack.com | Nick Jikomes

    Episode Summary: Dr. Nirosha Murugan discusses the role of biophysics in biology, focusing on how light, particularly biophotons emitted by cells, influences processes like wound healing, neural activity, and cancer detection; how microtubules may act as biological fiber optics, the impact of modern light environments on health; her work inducing limb regeneration in frogs using silk hydrogels and growth factors; cancer as an energetic dysfunction; the potential of non-invasive photonic...

  • 3 weeks ago | mindandmatter.substack.com | Nick Jikomes |Alex C. Kwan

    Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:17:35Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Short Summary: Dr. Alex Kwan unpacks the latest neuroscience research on how psychedelics like ketamine & psilocybin reshape the brain. About the guest: Alex Kwan, PhD, is an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Cornell University. His lab employs advanced imaging to study how psychedelics and other drugs affect the mammalian brain.