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"As a result, I decided to start supplementing with nattokinase, which can naturally help reduce LDL cholesterol, and it did. In a follow-up test, I could confirm that this strategy worked, my blood lipids are now back where I want them, in range."
"I'd been eating a lot of tuna while also making an effort to eat more leafy greens and supplementing with NAC and acetylcysteine, both of which can support glutathione production and detoxification."
"Well, I use Claude to quiz myself. Claude is really good at generating tests for me on knowledge. So that's where I've been using it the most."
"The particular light pad I use I bought on Amazon. So I place that on the desk in front of me and I turn it on essentially throughout this phase one of the day."
"I stick to olive oil and small amounts of butter and that's because I also think seed oils taste terrible."
"I take vitamin D, D3. I take a lot. I take 5 to 8,000 IUs per day and I get sunlight."
"I'll take alpha-GPC before a workout sometimes or if I need to focus late in the day. Alpha-GPC actually will improve your REM sleep. It's one of the few things I found that can increase energy late in the day and still sleep just fine."
"I have to say after now about 10 years of working at a sit-stand desk, I find I can't sit for too long before I want to stand."
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"Melanotan, which makes people tan from the inside, raises energy and libido dramatically, fat loss dramatically. I have to say those drugs melanotan is very risky. Some of the skin color changes can be permanent."
"I'm on my third hour of scrolling through TikTok and I know and I'm not that then you then you start to worry, right? because now you're going to do damage to yourself for the purpose of consuming this brain candy"
"And if you're somebody who's really keen on blue blockers and you're wearing your blue blockers all day, well, don't wear them outside. And in fact, you're probably doing yourself a disservice by wearing them in the morning and in the daytime."
"People get lichen planus. It's an autoimmune condition where the immune system because of stress and excessively long days etc. looks like bruising on the wrists."
"Many of you have probably heard before, I am not a big fan of melatonin supplementation for a number of reasons, but just as a quick aside, the levels of melatonin that are in most supplements are far too high to really be considered physiological."
"And this is something that we've given up largely because of our smartphones. You're constantly bringing in new sensory"
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Clear filters"Uber drivers, I'm not saying riding in your Uber with your terrible air freshener is going to prevent people from getting pregnant."
"Trenbolone in particular that causes aggression but that is well known for causing otherwise self-reporting as heterosexual males to start wanting to have sex essentially with males or females."
"there is some evidence that you can reduce muscle soreness from exercise by ingestion of magnesium malate"
"magnesium bisglycinate which seems at least on par with magnesium threonate in terms of promoting transition into and depth of sleep"
"I've talked before about magnesium threonate for sake of promoting the transition into sleep and for depth of sleep"
"it's reviewed a bit and some of the data are reviewed in the book The Salt Fix that when people increase their salt intake in a backdrop of relatively unprocessed foods that sugar cravings can indeed be vastly reduced"
"magnesium citrate which is a fairly effective laxative, not known to promote sleep and things of that sort"
"You could, however, immerse yourself in a hot tub or hot water bath up to your neck. That's another way to approach it."
"You could do like the wrestlers do. And you could actually buy one of these plastic suits. They're literally called plastics that wrestlers or other athletes that wish to drop water weight will wear and then go jogging in that."
"I realize that there are dry saunas, there are steam saunas, there are infrared sauna, there are hot tubs, and there are simply rooms that you crank up the heat."
"I realize that there are dry saunas, there are steam saunas, there are infrared sauna, there are hot tubs, and there are simply rooms that you crank up the heat."
"nicotine. So there's a lot of stimulant use right now for focus."
"I'm very excited by Tony Wyss-Coray's work from Stanford. And he had a company that's now sold, Alchemist, which talked about factors in young blood and in exercised blood that can rejuvenate the brain and body."
"Different than Adderall because Adderall is more of an amphetamine type stimulant. Very interesting paper came out recently from WashU showing that Adderall seem to improve focus about as well as a good night's sleep."
"The first thing that sort of broke through was vitamin D. Maybe because it can be increased by sunlight and everyone gets some exposure to sunlight."
"And then gradually now the creatine craze, it's funny. Creatine was something that was popular in gyms and when I was like 16 years old, 17 years old and then oh there all these cognitive benefits, etc."
"it usually starts however with like what supplement should I take? Should I be taking creatine? I'm like you know how's your life? Oh it's a mess. Okay, creatine ain't gonna fix this."
"We all have heard of modafinil used to treat excessive daytime sleepiness. It may have a slight cognitive enhancing effect, but it's mostly a focusing thing."
"I'm going to Matt McDougall who you know I knew when he was at Stanford now is at Neuralink he's phenomenal. Dan Adams I think that group is terrific."
"It's like, oh, will ashwagandha reduce this or reduce cortisol? Yeah, people take it in the morning. That makes no sense. You want your cortisol elevated in the morning."
"I'd gone on Bill Maher and I said it's foolish to cut this funding for the cancer research"