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Huberman: 1mg Melatonin Is ~100x Natural Secretion and Suppresses Puberty
“What you take in terms of one milligram melatonin, very small dosage, something like a hundred times what you naturally secrete. I get really concerned about this, especially in kids because melatonin is actually the hormone that suppresses the onset of pubert…”
Huberman: Mouth breathing causes deviated septums in most non-trauma cases
“The reason you have a deviated septum is because you're a mouth breather. There are rare exceptions where if people boxed or they had broken nose or something like that, but your sinuses can learn to dilate.”
Huberman: 15 seconds of bright nighttime light drops melatonin to zero
“Light viewed by the eyes inhibits melatonin, so much so that if melatonin levels are at their peak and you walk into the bathroom at night and you flip on the lights and it's really bright, if you spend more than 10 or 15 seconds in that light, your melatonin …”
Huberman: Cardiovascular exercise increases hippocampal neurons in mice, not humans
“There's some mouse data or studies published on, on mice showing that exercise, cardiovascular exercise can increase the number of neurons in the hippocampus. Turns out that's true for mice, but not for humans.”
Huberman: Brain Plasticity After Age 25 Requires Self-Directed Effort
“After age 25, the brain doesn't change unless it's self-directed change, so don't expect anybody to change unless it's self-directed. Forget trying to get people to change. It does not work. It works with children. It does not work with adults unless it's self…”
Huberman: PNAS Study Shows Hyperventilation Prevents E. Coli Symptoms
“There's a beautiful study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that shows that when people do this kind of breathing prior to an injection of E. Coli, something I don't recommend people do, they are actually able to remain symptom f…”
Huberman: Sleeping with socks on is a terrible idea
“You've probably heard sleep with socks on terrible idea. I don't know why that caught on. That makes no sense whatsoever. You want to be able to dump heat in the middle of the night, because if you get too hot, you'll wake up.”
Huberman: Cold water exposure triggers a 2.5x sustained dopamine increase
“There's a paper published in the European Journal of Physiology. It showed that there's a 2.5 X huge increase in dopamine release, very long lasting. 2.5 X is the amount of dopamine that's triggered by the use of cocaine, but the difference is cocaine has a ve…”
Huberman: Sufficient Estrogen in Men Is Essential for Brain Health and Libido
“Having sufficient levels of estrogen for men, provided it's not too high, is important for brain longevity and health. It's actually really important for libido.”
Huberman: Delaying Morning Caffeine 90–120 Minutes Prevents Afternoon Crashes
“So if you keep caffeine out of your system for the first 90 to 120 minutes of waking and then have your caffeine, you'll notice that you'll push through the afternoon just fine without any afternoon drop.”
Huberman: About 10% of people experience a dopamine surge from alcohol
“Now about 10% of people have a genetic predisposition to get a big dopamine increase from alcohol.”
Huberman: Double inhales and long exhales rapidly eliminate acute stress
“That double inhale through the nose followed by a long exhale through the mouth will rapidly de-stress you. So much so that most people find they just need to do it once, sometimes two or three times in order to go from a state of real, Kind of stress and anxi…”
Huberman: Direct brain benefits of exercise stem from load-bearing skeleton stimulation
“The direct effects bring us to osteocalcin, and the direct effects of exercise on brain function and health actually come from stimulation of the skeleton and load-bearing exercise”
Huberman: Practicing impulse suppression in one task strengthens general self-control
“The thing to understand about neural circuitry is that it's generic. It doesn't, it's not designed so that you have a strong no-go response just to picking up your phone. It actually carries over to multiple other things. And this is also true of the go circui…”
Huberman: Sunlight through windows fails to set your circadian clock
“Bright light exposure through windows or windshields will not suffice. Those unlike corrective lenses on your eyes, glasses and contacts don't focus the light to your eyes. In fact, they're designed to filter The very light that triggers activation of these ne…”
Huberman: Late-shifted cortisol peak is a physiological signature of depression
“And actually it's a hallmark physiological signature of depression to have a late shifted cortisol peak.”
Huberman: Morning Light Triggers Real Cortisol, Adrenaline, and Dopamine Release
“That's not a placebo effect. That's a real effect of the release of cortisol and adrenaline into your body. The release of dopamine is controlled by light, powerful neuromodulator that makes you feel good.”
Huberman: Peak alertness occurs 90 minutes before natural bedtime
“The biggest peak in alertness actually occurs about 90 minutes before your natural to sleep time.”
Huberman: Behavioral tools must precede supplements by rewiring neural circuits
“Behavioral tools should form the foundation of
All your sleep tools, your wakefulness tools, behaviors first, for one simple but important reason, which is that behaviors rewire your nervous system.
They, so they engage what we call neuroplasticity, which is y…”
Huberman: Theanine, magnesium threonate, and apigenin activate GABA
“Theanine, magnesium threonate, and apigenin all trigger the activation of a neuro hormone, excuse me, a neurotransmitter in the brain called GABA, which tends to shut off our forebrain.”
Huberman: People with night terrors or sleepwalking must avoid theanine
“People who have night terrors or who have, who sleepwalk should not take theanine.”
Huberman: End cold exposure on cold to maximize metabolic fat burn
“If you want to increase your metabolism a lot, because this will increase your metabolism, you're looking at fat loss or this kind of thing. Well, then you want to end with cold because then you need to use your body's natural mechanisms to heat up.”
Huberman: Short Naps and NSDR Accelerate Neuroplasticity and Learning
“There are several very good papers that were published in the last few years in the journal Cell Report showing that short naps and NSDR, I should say, has some good science to support it, accelerates neuroplasticity and learning. Especially if you take that n…”
Huberman: Six sets per body part weekly maintains muscle mass
“It's very clear that the body and brain and the skeletal system and the muscular system benefit from any, from a minimum of six sets per body part per week, just to maintain muscle.”
Huberman: Late caffeine degrades sleep quality even if falling asleep is easy
“Many people find that they can drink caffeine until eight or nine PM and then still fall asleep, but the quality of your sleep will be greatly disrupted.”
Huberman: Panoramic vision increases motion detection fourfold
“Actually your motion detection goes up fourfold when you're in this panoramic vision mode, because of the, you shift to a different category of neurons that are much better detecting motion.”
Huberman: Physiological sighs relieve running side cramps 99% of the time
“Try, do a physiological sigh two or three times while running, and the cramp will relieve itself. I in 99% of the time, and because of the way that it relaxes the diaphragm, and so you're taking out that collateral pain.”
Huberman: Elevating feet 10 to 15 degrees increases brain glymphatic clearance
“One way to enhance it is to have the feet slightly elevated, 10 to 15 degrees. I put a pillow under my ankles when I sleep at night. Usually in the middle of the night, I realize I kicked it away or something like that, but feet elevated naps of about 10 to 15…”
Huberman: Regular Cyclic Hyperventilation Raises Stress Threshold
“I guarantee that if you do it three or four more times a week, you're going to notice a big improvement in your ability to not get triggered. Someone's going to say, you know, just, it won't feel triggering. Because there's no adrenaline response to it. You've…”
Huberman: Body temperature is the second most powerful stimulus for wakefulness
“Second to light temperature is the most powerful stimulus for wakefulness. Actually, when you wake up in the morning, it's because your body temperature is rising.”
Huberman: Sleep requires body temperature to drop 1 to 3 degrees
“In order to fall asleep and stay asleep, you need your body temperature to be about one to three degrees lower than it was in that in the afternoon.”
Huberman: Humans dump heat mainly via palms, upper face, and feet
“We actually dump heat mainly through the palms of our hands, the upper half of our face and the bottoms of our feet.”
Huberman: Stanford study shows exercised blood improves brain function
“In fact, there's this really cool study. I'll just mention that it's done at Stanford recently by my colleague, Tony Weiss Corey, where they take the blood from exercised individuals and they infuse it into non-exercise individuals and all sorts of aspects of …”
Huberman: Alcohol lowers body temperature while disrupting temperature perception
“Alcohol actually lowers your body temperature, but your perception of that lower body temperature is disrupted. So part of the reason you can fall asleep When you drink alcohol is because it lowers your body temperature.”
Huberman suppresses 20 to 30 minor impulses daily to build restraint
“Every day I try and have somewhere between 20 and 30 no-go's. And the no-go's can be trivial. Like, I'm ready to pick up my phone. No. And I force myself to not pick it up.”
Huberman: Grip strength indirectly assesses cognitive function in aging
“It's actually well established that cognitive function in aging can be assessed indirectly by grip strength.”
Huberman: Seasonal Light Changes Dictate Melatonin Release Levels
“Remember, light inhibits melatonin. The longer the day, the shorter the melatonin signal. So in summer months, your body releases very little melatonin. In winter months, because days are shorter and there's less light overall, you release much more melatonin.”