#836 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The New Science Of Longevity, Resilience & Breaking Bad Habits

Anyone going through a crisis of any kind, any kind, you need a committee, however big or small. And if you don't have people, you need people in books; you need people in podcasts. And, you know, I'm not a recruiter, but you might give prayer a try.

The diabolical thing about the circadian timing system is that it requires a lot of bright light, ideally from sunlight, but a lot of bright light early in the day to make you a morning and daytime person; but it requires just a little bit of bright light, even from an artificial source, after the hours of about 9:30 PM till 4:00 AM to quash your melatonin...

Getting older is the best. As long as you train with weights three times a week, run three times a week... take a cold shower, and you eat mostly unprocessed and minimally processed foods, and you try and get sleep, and you limit your alcohol, and you deal with any addictions you might have, and you work on your traumas, you're going to have a great freakin' life.

There are genetic mutations, they call them polymorphisms, that makes some people night owls. They feel best, psychologically and physically, going to sleep at about 1, 2, or 3 AM and waking up somewhere around, you know, 10, 11 AM or noon.

You build your support system in good times. And when they're down, you support them. And you don't do it because you might hit bad times; you will hit bad times—and that's one reason to do it. You just do it.

By delaying caffeine for the first 60 to 90 minutes after waking, there's an interesting phenomenon whereby even though you are out of bed and walking around, you're not asleep, if you don't block those adenosine receptors, there's still clearance of adenosine occurring ... You're sort of still asleep.

If ever you're used to going to sleep at 10 PM or something, and suddenly at 7 PM you feel incredibly tired, you're probably battling something and should go to sleep.

What I think has been lacking, frankly, in the political discussion... has been a clear picture of what the future could look like if a given candidate wins.

The drug, the most commonly used drug, the drug we're using now, and that we're on right now, caffeine, which is consumed by, its estimated, more than 90% of the world's adult population, effectively works by blocking the adenosine receptor.

I put my cold plunge at about 48, 45 degrees.

Getting a lot of oxygen to your brain during sleep is part of the optimal sleep routine.