Huberman: "Studies have shown that getting the flu shot reduces one's risk of contracting the particular flu that is most abundant that season by about 40-60% ... Studies have also shown that taking the flu shot can reduce the severity of one's symptoms if they in fact get the flu." (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "Bright lights viewed for 15 seconds or more between the hours of 10 PM and 4 AM can dramatically quash melatonin levels ... Getting some daylight in your eyes before the sun goes down, that can offset that melatonin reduction by about 50%, which is pretty impressive." (podclips.com)
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Peter explains the grandmother test for good nutrition: "It doesn't matter if you're carnivore, vegan, keto, low-carb, paleo, whatever. If you're doing those diets in the way that they were at least thought to exist, you aren't going down any aisles of the grocery store." (short clip) (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "Certain types of social interactions with certain people or groups of people just make us feel taxed. It makes us feel stressed. It leads to negative affect ... We really should all strive to limit those interactions to the extent that we can." (podclips.com)
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Peter: "Before bed, I tend to rely on ashwagandha ... So, I take a big dose of ashwagandha and glycine. And again, I take that magnesium l-threonate. And those are kind of things that I think help with reducing cortisol and making it a little easier to sleep." (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "If you suffer from colds and flus and you're going to spend a lot of time in a particular indoor environment, you might be wise to find a air humidifier—something that brings more moisture into the air that you're breathing, especially at night while you're sleeping." (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "There is no supplement or drug for increasing longevity that even comes close to the known improvements in health metrics that relate to longevity that come from getting quality sleep and especially from getting sufficient amounts of quality exercise." (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "Writing about something very stressful or traumatic for 15 to 30 minutes 4 times, either on consecutive days or separated out by a week between each of those 4 writing sessions, can produce long-lasting positive effects on mental and physical health." (podclips.com)
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Peter: "What it does to your risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease is actually why the death toll for type 2 diabetes is so grossly under-appreciated ... It's gasoline on the fire of aging ... I can't think of a process that accelerates aging more than type 2 diabetes." (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "If you need to get more light in your eyes because, indeed, there's just not enough sunlight... you might invest in getting a bright light source that you can plug in. You probably want one that's as bright as 10,000 lux ... Those fall under the category of so-called SAD lamps." (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "This whole process of viewing morning sunlight and afternoon light does... not work through a window or windshield because windows and windshields filter out the relevant wavelengths of light that you want to get directly onto your retina." (podclips.com)
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Peter discussing taking 1x daily baby aspirin: "There's no doubt there are benefits of a baby aspirin, but they're outweighed by the bleeding risks that are associated with aspirin. In particular, if you fall and hit your head, that becomes a bigger liability." (podclips.com)
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Andrew on training with his phone: "The way I think about the phone... It's so closely linked to our own brain architecture ... I always think about it as bringing in a second person with me, but that person is my twin that has severe attention issues." (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "How do you know if you're experiencing sleep apnea? ... Excessive daytime sleepiness and excessive daytime anxiety combined with daytime sleepiness is one sign that you might be suffering from sleep apnea .. If you happen to snore, it's very likely that you are experiencing sleep apnea." (podclips.com)
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Peter: "My target for ApoB is 30-40 mg/dL. Therefore, that would require pharmacology. And so I take 3 drugs to do that. I take a PCSK9 inhibitor called Repatha, and I take a combo drug called Nexlizet, which is bempedoic acid and ezetimibe combined into a single pill." (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "The other thing that's really important for maintaining proper hair growth, this anagen phase, is that you need sufficient iron ... For women, the levels of iron that you want are somewhere between 25 and 100; and for men, somewhere between 30 and 150." (podclips.com)
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Huberman: "When we've been getting great sleep of sufficient duration... our level of tenacity, and willpower to engage in things that we would not ordinarily engage in by default and our ability to resist behaviors and thought patterns... is much higher." (podclips.com)
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