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Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials,
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where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health,
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physical health, and performance.
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I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
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I decided that we would hold office hours.
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Office hours in the university setting are when students come to the professor's office
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or you meet outdoors on campus or in the classroom to review the material and questions from lecture in more detail.
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Now, unfortunately we don't have the opportunity to meet face-to-face in real life,
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but nonetheless, you've been sending your questions,
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putting them in the comment section on YouTube, et cetera.
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And I prepared a number of answers to the questions that have shown up most frequently.
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Now, in order to provide context and structure to the way that we will address these questions,
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I've arranged the science and science-based protocols that relate to various aspects of life,
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such as mood, exercise, sleep,
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waking, anxiety, creativity, et cetera,
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into the context of a day.
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Selecting the unit of a day in order to deliver this science information
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and protocols is not a haphazard decision on my part.
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It's actually the case that every cell in our body,
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every organ in our body and our brain is modulated
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or changes across the 24-hour day in a very regular and predictable rhythm.
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And so selecting the unit of the day is not just a practical one,
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but it's one that's related to our deeper biology.
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So let's talk about how to apply quality,
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peer-reviewed science to your day and how to optimize everything from sleep to learning,
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creativity, meal timing, et cetera.
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I'm going to do this in the context of my day and what I typically do.
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I tend to wake up sometime around 6 a.m., 6.30.
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The first thing I do after I wake up is I take the pen that's on my nightstand
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and the pad of paper on my nightstand,
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and I write down the time in which I woke up.
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The reason for writing down what time I wake up is because I want to know what's called my temperature minimum.
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I don't care what my actual temperature is.
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I care when my lowest temperature is,
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and I know that that lowest temperature is approximately two hours before my average wake-up time.
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The second thing I do after I wake up is to get into forward ambulation,
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which is just nerd speak for taking a walk.
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There's a phenomenon whereby when we generate our own forward motion,
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forward ambulation, visual images pass by us on our eyes, so-called optic flow.
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Experiencing visual flow has a powerful effect on the nervous system.
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The effect it has is essentially to quiet will reduce the amount of neural activity in this brain structure called the amygdala.
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And many of you have probably heard about the amygdala for its role in anxiety and fear and threat detection.
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And indeed, the amygdala is part of the network in the brain that generates feelings of fear and threat and anxiety.
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It does a bunch of other things too,
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but that's one of its primary functions.
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Forward ambulation, walking or biking or running and generating optic flow in particular
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has this incredible property of lowering activity in the amygdala and thereby reducing levels of anxiety.
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That walk is a particularly important protocol each day
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because it really serves to push my neurology in the direction that I'd like it to go,
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which is alert, but not anxious.
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I want to have a high degree of focus and alertness because I'm soon going to move into a bout of work.
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I need to lean into the day.
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So in order to do that,
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I make sure that the walking is done outdoors.
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I do it outdoors because I also want sunlight in my eyes.
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Getting sunlight in your eyes first thing in the morning is absolutely vital to mental and physical health.
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Even if there's cloud cover,
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more photons, light information are coming through that cloud cover than would be coming from a very bright indoor bulb.
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So getting outside for a 10 minute walk
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or a 15 minute walk will basically ensure
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that you're getting adequate stimulation of these neurons in the eye that are called the melanopsin,
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intrinsically photosensitive ganglion cells.
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These are neurons that convey to the brain that it's daytime and it's time to be alert.
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And it sets in motion a huge number of biological cascades within every cell and organ of your body,
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from your liver to your gut,
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to your heart, to your brain.
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Early in the day, we experience a natural and healthy bump in a hormone called cortisol and promotes wakefulness.
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It actually promotes a healthy immune system.
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It's very important that that pulse of cortisol arrive early in the day.
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That pulse of cortisol is going to happen once every 24 hours, no matter what.
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It's going to happen and you get to time it.
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How do you time it?
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Primarily by when you view bright sunlight.
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You can combine it with the forward ambulation,
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with the walk and the optic flow that I talked about before.
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And that's what I do each morning to generate a sense of alertness in my body
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and brain to generate a sense of calm yet alert.
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So now we have a first protocol,
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which is to write down the time of day that you wake up.
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The second protocol is to take a walk first thing in the morning.
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And the third protocol is woven in with that walk,
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at least for me, which is to get that sunlight exposure.
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I'm a big believer based on quality peer review data that hydration is essential for mental performance.
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As many of you know, neurons require ionic flow.
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What that means is neurons need sodium,
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They need magnesium and they need potassium in order to function.
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We do tend to get dehydrated at night.
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I try and make sure that I'm hydrated early in the day before I begin any work.
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So I make myself drink this water with a little bit of sea salt.
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How much sea salt, if you really want to get detailed,
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I suppose it's about half a teaspoon, it's not much.
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At that point, I start craving caffeine,
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but I don't drink that caffeine yet.
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I purposely delay my caffeine intake to 90 minutes to 120 minutes after I wake up.
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The reason I delay caffeine is because one of the factors that induces a sense of sleepiness is the buildup of adenosine.
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The buildup of adenosine accumulates the longer we are awake.
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When you wake up in the morning,
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your adenosine levels are likely to be very low.
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However, caffeine is an adenosine blocker.
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It's actually a competitive antagonist for you aficionados or parks in the receptor
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that adenosine normally would park at and prevents adenosine from acting on that receptor.
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That's why you feel more alert.
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The reason for delaying caffeine intake 90 minutes to two hours after waking is I want to make sure
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that I don't have a late afternoon or even early afternoon crash from caffeine.
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One of the best ways to ensure a caffeine crash is to drink a bunch of caffeine,
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block all those adenosine receptors,
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And then by early or late afternoon,
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when that caffeine starts to wear off and gets dislodged from the receptors,
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a lower level of adenosine is able to create a greater level of sleepiness.
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Delaying caffeine in 90 minutes to two hours optimizes this relationship between adenosine
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and wakefulness and sleepiness in a way
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that really provides a nice consistent arc of energy throughout the day
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and brings energy down as I'm headed toward sleep and falling asleep.
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My primary objective early in the day is to get into a mode of being focused yet alert
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so that I can get work done.
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I found that the best way for me to achieve that state is through fasting.
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So I don't eat anything until about 11 a.m or 12 noon.
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Fasting increases levels of adrenaline,
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also called epinephrine in the brain and body.
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And when our levels of epinephrine and adrenaline are increased,
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we learn better, we can focus better.
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You don't want epinephrine, aka adrenaline, too high.
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That feels like stress and panic.
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You get jittery, you can't focus.
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But in its optimal range,
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adrenaline really provides a heightened sense of focus and the ability to encode,
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meaning bring in and retain, remember information.
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Next, I want to talk about what I'm doing while I'm working.
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A couple of things for optimizing workspace that are grounded in neuroscience and physiology.
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I've talked before about the fact that when our eyes are directed upward,
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it creates a state of heightened alertness.
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And this has a relationship to the brainstem neurons that create alertness
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and their control over the muscles of the eye and believe it or not, the eye lids.
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The point here is that you can optimize your workstation in a physical way
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that leverages this aspect of the visual system and your level of alertness.
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Try and position your screen or your tablet,
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whatever device you happen to be working on,
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at least at eye level and ideally slightly higher.
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Most people are looking down at their computer or tablet or are angling their eyes at their screen about 30 degrees.
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When we look down, when our eyelids are slightly closed,
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it tends to decrease our levels of alertness and increase our levels of sleepiness.
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So we're now at the description of my day
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and these protocols in which I would do a 90 minute bout of work.
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Now, why 90 minutes?
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Well, the brain is going through these 90 minutes,
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so-called ultradian cycles throughout the entire day and night.
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Every 90 minutes, we shift over from being very alert to being less alert and then back to alert again.
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Here's how it works.
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At the start of one of these 90 minute ultradian cycles,
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my brain is not quite engaged in whatever it is I'm trying to do,
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but I set a timer for 90 minutes
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and I try and get a strong bout of work done inside of
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that 90 minutes with the full understanding
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that the entire 90 minutes is not going to be uniform in terms of my ability of focus.
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So the goal is to get into what I call the tunnel,
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to really get into a tunnel of quality work.
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The brain loves that state,
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but it's very hard for many of us to access.
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My phone is absolutely off.
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It's not on airplane mode.
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It's absolutely off during this time.
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In addition, I use low-level white noise.
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White noise, which is essentially all frequencies of sound,
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or all frequencies of sound that we can perceive,
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mixed up kind of randomly,
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there's no structure to it,
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turned on at a low volume,
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puts the brain into a state that's optimal for learning and workflow.
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So everything about this 90 minute block from the low levels of white noise to the position of my computer,
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how I'm standing and where my eyes are positioned is geared towards putting me in this tunnel of work.
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And I have to say that while it can be a challenge to try
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and achieve this state and this tunnel of work,
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some days you start to get kind of addicted to it.
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It feels really good.
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It's like a workout for the mind.
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And it is something that as you exit that 90 minutes,
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you really feel like you've accomplished a lot because often you have,
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And it just feels deeply satisfying.
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And I'm convinced that that's because of the release of neuromodulators like dopamine and the norepinephrine that's circulating in your system.
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And I want to be clear that I'm not perfect about this 90 minutes.
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Occasionally I get drawn away,
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but I really try and achieve this most,
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if not every day that I'm alive,
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because for me, that work session is kind of holy.
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There's a powerful way in which you can place the timing of this 90-minute work bout in an optimal way.
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you have access to a very important piece of data that dictates when this bout should start,
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more or less, and when it should end.
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That piece of data is your temperature minimum.
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If you're somebody who wakes up on average at 7 a.m.,
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well, then your temperature minimum is 5 a.m.
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You can be reasonably sure
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that your best work is going to be done anywhere from four to six hours after your temperature minimum.
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How do I know this?
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How do I know this relationship between temperature minimum and focused cognition?
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Well, temperature minimum defines the trough,
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the nadir, as they say,
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of your temperature across the 24-hour cycle.
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And immediately after that, your temperature will start to rise.
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That temperature rise is actually what triggers the initial cortisol release that you experience and wakes you up further.
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And then of course that sunlight that you're getting is going to further enhance that healthy release of cortisol.
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That cortisol will then provide fuel,
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if you will, for that increase in temperature.
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And your body will continue to increase in temperature throughout the day toward the afternoon.
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What you're trying to do in this idea of optimizing this
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90-minute work bout to a particular time of day is catch the portion of the steepest slope of that temperature rise.
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So if you're somebody who wakes up at 8 a.m each morning,
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your temperature minimum is 6 a.m.,
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chances are you're going to want to start this workout somewhere around 10 a.m or 11 a.m.
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Now, some people wake up and feel very alert first thing in the morning.
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They can really do their best work first thing in the morning.
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Please, if that's you, continue to do that.
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Leverage that time, use that time.
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But if you're somebody who struggles to find focus,
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definitely let your physiology and this rise in your body temperature support your efforts to focus
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rather than trying to do your best work at times of day
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when your physiology is actually directing your body and your brain toward defocus and towards being more lethargic.
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It just is setting yourself up for success when you try and capture this rising phase of your temperature.
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Data going back to the 1990s supports the idea that physical movement of particular kinds can support brain health and brain function,
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both in the immediate term and in the long-term.
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So after I've finished a bout of work,
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this 90-minute bout of work,
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I force myself to do some sort of physical exercise
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that is going to be supportive of my brain health and brain function and organ health and bodily function in general.
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Now, there are various forms of physical activity or what we call exercise,
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but those can generally be batched into two categories.
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First is strength and hypertrophy work.
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So physical movements that are designed to make you stronger and or make your muscles larger.
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There's also endurance work,
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physical exercise and movements that are designed to allow you to do more work over time
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or to extend the amount of time that you can do work of any kind,
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both physical and mental.
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The data all point to the fact
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that working out hard for longer than an hour can actually be detrimental because of the way that it raises cortisol.
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And cortisol can be a good thing if it's appropriately timed and in the appropriate low levels,
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but you don't want to have your cortisol levels up throughout the day or have big spikes of cortisol repeatedly.
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So keeping workouts relatively short can definitely help with that.
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Endurance work and strength training or hypertrophy training done in combination,
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meaning not necessarily in the same workout,
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but done across the week is immensely beneficial for the production of things like brain-derived nootrophic factor,
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for limiting inflammatory cytokines like IL-6,
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for promoting anti-inflammatory cytokines like IL-10,
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provided that exercise is of the proper duration and that it's not
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so intense that you're actually creating damage to the various systems of the body.
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What about the structure of the actual workouts?
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Well, approximately 80% of the resistance training you do should be resistance training that doesn't go to what they call failure,
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where you can't actually move the resistance anymore.
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The other 20% can be of the higher intensity to failure type training.
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That 80-20 rule of less than failure
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and work to failure in the resistance exercise regime can be transported
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or translated to the endurance exercise portion by focusing on that thing that we're familiar with,
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which is the burn when we're running hard or cycling hard,
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we'll experience a kind of burning of the muscles that's associated with the lactate system.
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And actually the lactate system is its own form of fuel for the brain.
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And so there's increasing interest in generating the lactate or pushing past that lactate threshold for small portion,
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20% or so of endurance work in order to support brain health and function.
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So on any given day,
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I finished that work block and I train.
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I do some sort of resistance or endurance training.
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I put those on alternate days or different days rather.
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So we've now talked about the arc
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that spans all the way from waking to a morning bout of focused work to physical training.
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I have not mentioned ingesting anything or nutrients.
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One of the most common questions I get are,
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what should I eat for my brain?
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Well, ironically enough, one of the best things you can do for your brain is to not eat,
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but of course we all have to eat sooner or later.
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So let's talk about food timing first.
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As I mentioned, I eat my first meal sometime around noon,
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plus or minus an hour.
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The volume of food is also important.
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If you eat a large volume of anything,
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because it diverts blood to your gut,
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you will feel lethargic and you will have less blood going to your brain.
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That seems like a simple and trivial fact,
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but if you want to be able to think,
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you can't ingest large volumes of anything into your gut.
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So for lunch, I do emphasize slightly lower carbohydrate
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or low carbohydrate intake for the simple reason that adrenaline and dopamine and their associated neuromodulators are going to support alertness.
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So for me, I fast up until about noon,
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then I eat a lunch that consists of some sort of protein thing,
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like some meat or some chicken or some salmon and some vegetables, et cetera.
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And if I've exercised previously,
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which I do, as I mentioned,
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five days a week, then I will ingest some starches.
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I'll ingest some bread, excuse me,
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or rice or oatmeal and butter and nuts and things like that.
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But I will keep the total amount of carbohydrate a little bit on the low side,
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or if I haven't trained,
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I won't have any carbohydrate at all.
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Not because I'm ketogenic, but because starches cause the release of serotonin
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and in the brain and lend themselves to a state of sleepiness.
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Now, what about components of foods that are not about alertness,
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but are about mood?
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We did an entire episode on mood and food,
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and it's very clear based on now dozens of studies that ingesting sufficient levels of omega-3 fatty acids
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is going to support healthy mood and even can act as an antidepressant.
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Ingesting at least 1,000 milligrams per day of the EPA form
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of essential fatty acid is as effective as prescription antidepressants in relieving depression.
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And if you're somebody who requires prescription antidepressants,
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Prozac, Zoloft, et cetera, it can allow people to take lower doses of those medications.
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A key aspect to the midday meal,
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if you want that meal to benefit you,
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is to take a brief walk afterwards.
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It turns out that brief walks of five to 30 minutes after ingesting food can accelerate metabolism
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and actually can accelerate and improve nutrient utilization,
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which is essentially the same as metabolism.
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But nonetheless, that's something that I do after I finish my noon meal.
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I do force myself to stand up and go outside and take a brief walk.
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That also gets me again into optic flow.
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It also has another benefit,
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which is that I am giving my brain and thereby my body more information about light and time of day,
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which is always better than less information about light and time of day.
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A key protocol for sleep health and wakefulness and metabolism and hormone health is viewing light in the afternoon.
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So here's the reason for doing this.
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As we progress into the evening hours,
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there's a phenomenon where our retina,
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our eyes become very sensitive to light,
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such that if we view bright lights or even not so bright lights between the hours of 10 p.m and 4 a.m.,
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that is strongly disruptive, very disruptive for our dopamine production.
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It can really screw up our sleep.
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But if you can get outside and see the sun as it arcs down,
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or if you can't see the sun directly,
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get some sunlight in your eyes in the afternoon hours,
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so maybe 4 p.m ish.
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What it does is it lowers the sensitivity of your retina in the late evening hours,
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which allows you to buffer yourself against the negative effects of bright light later at night.
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Now we haven't talked too much about melatonin,
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but melatonin is a hormone that is inhibited by light.
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Melatonin is the hormone that allows you to fall asleep easily.
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Now I'm not talking about supplementing melatonin,
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I'm talking about melatonin that you naturally produce from your pineal.
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So the protocol is very simple.
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Get outside in the afternoon or evening for 10 to 30 minutes,
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take your sunglasses off.
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So get that afternoon light.
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So what you'll probably notice is that the optimal protocols for optimizing your brain and body health and performance and sleep,
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et cetera, are actually really simple.
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But just because they're simple does not mean that they are not powerful.
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In fact, they are very powerful because they leverage the most powerful technology that exists,
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which is your nervous system.
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What we are talking about today are really basic things
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that we can all do that can steer our neurology and our biology in the directions that are going to support workflow,
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that are going to support hormones,
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that are going to support brain function.
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So at some point in the evening,
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I eat that thing that we call dinner.
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And while it feels sort of strange to talk about my dinner,
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the reason I want to talk about my dinner and what I eat for dinner is that for me,
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dinner of course is about eating,
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but also about optimizing the transition to sleep.
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So my dinner generally is comprised of things that are going to support rest and deep sleep.
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And that means starchy carbohydrates.
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It's absolutely clear that one of the major ways that we can increase serotonin,
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which helps in the transition to sleep,
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is by ingesting starchy carbohydrates.
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So my dinner is carbohydrates and some protein.
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So maybe some chicken or fish or something like that,
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maybe some eggs, or sometimes just pasta or just rice and vegetables.
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And that's because I enjoy those foods,
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but also because I want to increase the amount of serotonin in my brain
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so that I can actually fall asleep that night.
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Many people who are on low carbohydrate diets struggle with falling and staying asleep.
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And that's because it's hard to achieve heightened levels of serotonin,
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which are necessary to enter sleep.
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I should also mention that melatonin and serotonin fall in the same pathway.
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They are related hormones and neuromodulators.
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Essentially what we're talking about is a system that's biasing us towards rest and relaxation as opposed to wakefulness.
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You might ask, well, can't I just take serotonin?
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Can't I just take 5-HTP or a precursor to serotonin or tryptophan?
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And indeed you can.
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However, many people, including myself,
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find that when they supplement with serotonin in the evening or at night,
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that can cause problems in the architecture or the structure of sleep.
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It can cause a lot of people,
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including me, to fall asleep very fast,
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sleep very deeply for three or four hours,
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and then wake up and have a terrible time falling back asleep.
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And that effect, at least for me, can last several days.
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It's really disruptive.
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So I don't like to supplement with anything that is directly dopamine
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or a precursor to dopamine at any time or directly serotonin or a precursor to serotonin.
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Rather, there are other things that can enhance the transition to sleep safely,
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which we will talk about in a few minutes.
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But the evening meal consists largely of carbohydrates for that specific purpose of generating a sense of calm.
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And of course, carbohydrates are delicious.
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And because I'm doing some physical training and presumably you are as well,
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or I hope you are,
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because it's so beneficial to one's health,
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that's also going to replenish my glycogen stores,
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which is one of the primary fuel sources for moving one's muscles
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and moving around and doing exercise as well as for the brain and for cognitive function.
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So let's talk about sleep and how to access sleep.
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One way to do that is to leverage the drop in temperature that's necessary to fall and stay asleep.
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So as I mentioned earlier,
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in the early parts of the day after waking,
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our body temperature is rising and that continues throughout the day.
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And then sometime late in the afternoon,
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our temperature peaks and then it starts to drop.
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That drop in temperature of one to three degrees is vitally important for us to be able to fall asleep easily.
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One way that we can decrease our transition time into sleep is to accelerate that drop in temperature.
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And one way to accelerate that drop in temperature,
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somewhat counterintuitively, is to use hot baths,
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hot showers, or if you have access to one, a sauna.
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Now this is counterintuitive, but actually if you are to get into a sauna
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or a hot shower or a hot bath and then get out,
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your body is going to engage particular mechanisms for cooling itself off
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that are going to allow you to drop your temperature more quickly and fall asleep more easily.
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It is absolutely true that keeping the room very dark is beneficial.
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The other thing is keeping the room cool.
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The reason keeping the room cool is useful for getting into and staying asleep is that throughout the night,
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there are phases of sleep where you are paralyzed,
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so-called REM sleep, that's a healthy paralysis,
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presumably so you can't act out your dreams,
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but there are portions of the night where you can move.
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And one of the more important movements
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that you do in the middle of the night is put your hand out or your foot out,
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or you take your face out from under the covers as a means to cool yourself.
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You're actually allowing cooling of the body through what are called AVAs,
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arteriovenous astomosis is the technical name that are in the palms,
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the upper half of the face and the bottoms of the feet.
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Now, there are things that one can take to enhance the transition to sleep.
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Three compounds that could be very beneficial for aiding the transition to sleep,
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and for which there are wide safety margins,
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although please do check with your physician before taking anything,
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are specific forms of magnesium,
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something called apigenin and theanine.
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Magnesium comes in many forms.
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Magnesium threonate, that's T-H-R-E-O-N-A-T-E, threonate and magnesium biglycinate
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have transporters that allow them to cross the blood brain barrier more readily than other forms of magnesium.
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And there within the brain,
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they promote the release of a neurotransmitter called GABA,
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which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter,
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which shuts off the forebrain to some extent.
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It doesn't shut off completely,
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but it essentially shuts down thinking,
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rumination, planning, and what we call executive function.
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So for many people taking 300 to 400 milligrams of magnesium biglycinate or magnesium threonate,
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30 to 60 minutes before sleep can aid them in falling asleep.
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When coupled with apigenin and theanine,
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provide a sort of synergy or a sleep cocktail that seems to be very effective in aiding the transition to sleep.
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So apigenin is the substance that's found in chamomile
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and 50 milligrams of apigenin taken 30 minutes before sleep can act as another way to shut off the forebrain
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and reduce rumination, reduce anxiety,
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and allow people to fall and stay asleep.
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And then the third compound is theanine, T-H-E-A-N-I-N-E.
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Theanine is a compound that can also increase GABA,
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but also increases activation of something called chloride channels.
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Chloride channels are another way in which neurons lower their levels of activity.
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So magnesium threonate or biglycinate,
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apigenin and theanine in combination can be very effective for aiding the transition to sleep.
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Now, what if you wake up in the middle of the night?
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This is a very common occurrence.
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And there are two general themes around waking up in the middle of the night that one can use tools to counteract.
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The first theme is if you're somebody who is tired in the evenings and you're kind of pushing yourself to stay awake.
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So you're going to the party or you're pushing yourself to study your work
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when in fact you'd like to get into bed at 8.30 or 9.00,
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and then you're falling asleep around 10.30 or 11.00 and waking up at 2.30 or 3 in the morning,
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you can't fall back asleep.
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Chances are that your melatonin pulse was initiated early in the night.
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So that melatonin pulse started probably around 8.30 or 9,
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but you're staying up, you're battling that melatonin.
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You may not like this advice,
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but one of the things that you can do to offset that is to simply go to bed earlier.
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The other thing is many people wake up in the middle of the night
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because of anxiety or because they have to use the restroom.
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It's perfectly fine to flip on the lights,
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to keep the lights dim.
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But if you flip on those lights,
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try and flip them off as soon as possible and try and get back into bed.
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So now we've essentially traveled around the clock,
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so to speak, from the time where one wakes up until the time they get to sleep,
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maybe wake up, get back to sleep, et cetera.
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I want to emphasize that although people's schedules vary,
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most people are doing more than one or two work bouts per day.
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And indeed, I'm doing more than one or two work bouts per day.
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I really emphasize that morning 90-minute work block
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because I think most people would agree
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that there's a portion of each day in
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which we need to do the hardest thing or the most important thing
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or the thing that demands the most of our cognitive self.
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I position that early in the day and I position everything around
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that in order to ensure that it happens and that it happens with the highest degree of efficiency,
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even though that morning 90-minute work block is so vital.
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Of course, there's a second work block.
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So combined, that's just three hours of focused work,
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which may not seem like a lot,
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but if you were to dissect your day and kind of look at the arc and structure of your day,
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I'd be willing to bet that if we added up the total period of time in which you were in deep work,
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really focused, dedicated work, that it would probably amount to about three or four hours.
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And of course, throughout the day,
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there are other things happening outside of those 90 minute work blocks.
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I'm checking my text messages,
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I'm checking my email, I'm responding to various demands,
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I'm working and tending to life.
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So while I've carved some boundaries or delineated some boundaries around those work blocks,
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and I'm certain that if you do too,
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you will benefit from them,
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of course, please adapt and modify what I've described today in ways that best serve you and your schedule.
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What I've tried to do is provide you scientific support,
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specific protocols and regimens, because people are always asking me for more specificity and detail,
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and an example of one way,
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just one way, in which these various tools and protocols that are grounded in science could be leveraged in one's own life.
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And last but not least,
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thank you for your interest in science.
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本期“Huberman Lab Essentials”内容精选自Andrew Huberman博士的往期节目精华，聚焦于一系列经科学验证、可操作的日常工具，旨在最大化您的生产力，并优化身心健康与表现。视频将一天中的不同时段作为框架，详细介绍了从清晨到入睡的各种生理调节策略和行为协议，包括晨光暴露、水分补充、延迟咖啡因摄入、高效工作周期、科学运动以及饮食和睡眠优化。
通过学习本视频，您将不仅掌握优化日常生活的科学方法，还能有效提升您的英语口语练习能力。您将学习到：
- 词汇主题：日常作息、神经科学、生物节律、健康与健身、生产力管理、营养学、睡眠科学等相关专业词汇及地道表达。
- 语法模式：因果关系句型、解释性从句、条件句、祈使句（用于建议和指导）。
- 口语场景：描述个人日常习惯、解释复杂的科学概念、提供健康建议、讨论不同行为对身体机能的影响。
重要词汇和短语
- Forward ambulation （前进式行走）：指通过走路、跑步或骑行等方式产生身体向前移动，尤其指通过这种方式带来的“视动流”对大脑的积极影响。
- Optic flow （视动流）：当我们向前移动时，视觉图像在眼中流过的现象，视频中强调它能有效降低杏仁核（amygdala）的活动，从而减少焦虑。
- Temperature minimum （体温最低点）：人体在24小时周期内的最低体温，它是预测最佳专注工作时间的重要生理指标。
- Ultradian cycles （超昼夜节律）：指大脑在清醒状态下每90分钟左右经历一次从高度警觉到警觉度下降的周期性波动。
- Competitive antagonist （竞争性拮抗剂）：在药理学中，指一种与受体结合但不激活受体的物质，它通过占据受体位置来阻止其他物质（如腺苷）发挥作用。
- Buffer yourself against （抵御/缓冲...）：采取措施来保护自己，减少某种负面影响或冲击。
- Rumination （反刍思维/反复思考）：指对某事（通常是负面或担忧）进行长时间的、重复的思考，常与焦虑和失眠相关。
本视频练习技巧
Huberman博士的讲解清晰、信息量大，是进行发音练习和英语流利度训练的绝佳素材。
- 语速与节奏：Huberman博士的语速相对较快，但发音非常清晰。初次跟读时，建议将视频速度调慢，集中模仿其句子的自然停顿和重音，特别是在阐述科学原理时的语调变化。这对于提升您的英语口语练习的精准性非常有帮助。
- 科学词汇发音：视频中包含大量神经科学和生物学词汇，如“amygdala”、“cortisol”、“adenosine”等。暂停视频，反复练习这些词汇的准确发音，留意重音和音节划分。这能有效增强您的发音练习效果，并为学术交流打下基础。
- 信息概括与复述：视频内容虽专业，但条理清晰。在听完一个协议或概念后，尝试用自己的话进行简要概括和复述。这不仅能巩固对内容的理解，还能锻炼您在复杂话题上快速组织语言、提升英语流利度的能力，对雅思口语Part 3等高难度场景尤为适用。
- 模仿解释技巧：注意Huberman博士如何用简洁明了的语言解释复杂的科学现象（如“optic flow”对焦虑的影响，“延迟咖啡因摄入”的原理）。模仿这种解释方式，学习如何将专业知识转化为易于理解的表达，对日常交流和专业汇报都大有裨益。
- 实践与描述：选择视频中一个您感兴趣的日常协议（如早晨散步、调整工作站）付诸实践，并尝试用英语描述您的体验和感受。这能将所学词汇和句型应用到真实生活中，让您的英语口语练习更具实际意义。
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跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。