Learn about why your taste buds aren’t the only part of your body that help you enjoy the flavor of food. Then, learn about the two major forces that determine what a group of people can accomplish, with physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall.

Additional resources from Safi Bahcall:

• Pick up “Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries” on Amazon — https://amazon.com
• Follow @SafiBahcall on Twitter — https://twitter.com/safibahcall
• Official Website — https://www.bahcall.com/
• Subscribe to the New Books Network to hear our full interview with Safi Bahcall — https://newbooksnetwork.com/

The Taste Receptors Beyond Your Tongue by Grant Currin

Sources:

• Taste receptors in the gastrointestinal system | Flavour — https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2044-7248-4-14
• Your Gut Has Taste Receptors | ScienceDaily — https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820175426.htm
• Gut feelings | Knowable Magazine — https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2018/gut-feelings
• T1R3 and gustducin in gut sense sugars to regulate expression of Na+-glucose cotransporter 1 | PNAS — https://www.pnas.org/content/104/38/15075

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