Are people with high metabolism generally more intelligent than people with lower metabolism?
I don’t think the two are related, really. If anything, I’d submit there’s a slight *Indirect* thing or two that would suggest the opposite: –That people with high metabolisms *might* be too “hyper” or busy doing things to pause and think, and –That folks with higher metabolisms might get less sleep, which has been shown to interfere with learning and long-term memory. Insects don’t sleep and generally don’t learn things *at all* because their brains never get to do any serious updating for it. Really, you can search the terms “sleep deprivation” and “learning” at the site below: http://www.sciencenews.org/ The big thing that gets it for me though, is this. On average, 40% of the human brain by weight is fat. It’s necessary because nerve endings need some degree of low-density fat (like your Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish, or in flaxseed) to insulate themselves–the insulating layer, or myelin, of a nerve cell is *made of* t
