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OPTIMIZE ME

How to Hack Your Brain with Sound

Binaural beats may be able to entrain your brainwaves. That sounds more magical than it is.

Elemental
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5 min readMar 3, 2020

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Optimize Me is an Elemental column exploring (and fact-checking) the weirdest self-improvement trends. It comes out every Tuesday.

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Dana G Smith
Elemental

Health and science writer • PhD in 🧠 • Words in Scientific American, STAT, The Atlantic, The Guardian • Award-winning Covid-19 coverage for Elemental