jimrandomh comments on What would you do if blood glucose theory of willpower was true? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 22 March 2010 10:07:07PM *  2 points [-]

I didn't mean to imply that you can't increase willpower by managing blood sugar, but rather that the effect I described sets a limit on the total amount of benefit you can achieve this way. That is to say, while increasing your blood glucose from 80 to 100mg/dL is benefical for willpower, increasing it from 100 to 200mg/dL is disastrous. And most peoples' metabolism already maintains it at about the right point.

Comment author: taw 22 March 2010 10:20:17PM 3 points [-]

I haven't seen anything in research suggesting that above-normal sugar level is beneficial, just that below-normal sugar level harms willpower a lot.

If we could be near our best performance all the time, that would be enough.