{"id":1258,"date":"2011-10-16T01:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T01:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2012-10-31T00:16:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:16:15","slug":"dwindling-intellect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Dwindling Intellect."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent the day troubling myself with the design of a weather compensated central heating thermostat, a relatively simple concept, but for some reason I cannot get my head around it. Designs similar to this used to just fall into place, is this the engineer&#8217;s equivelent to writers block? Or have I just been away for too long?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith Phenylketonuria, there is the possibilty that intelligence can fluctuate according to the levels of phenylalanine (Phe) in the brain, I have been on a strict diet for more than a week, I know the Phe levels in the blood follow closely with eating habits, but the concentration within the brain lags somewhat, and as I have been off diet for a considerable long period, maybe I need to wait before the concentration subsides and I become more focused. This is something that has blighted my everyday functioning when it comes to the way I eat. So my relationship with food is stained, knowing I have to eat correctly to function normally is obvious, but functioning normally doesn&#8217;t necessarlly correlate with continuing a special diet. All I can do is continue with the diet and hope it improves my cognitive processes, but there is a little part of me that is sceptical, how will I know unless I endure this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent the day troubling myself with the design of a weather compensated central heating thermostat, a relatively simple concept, but for some reason I cannot get my head around it. Designs similar to this used to just fall into place, is this the engineer&#8217;s equivelent to writers block? Or have I just been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}