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Sauna

Technique

20 creators

Post-bag-work sauna sessions to keep heart rate elevated, and deep stretching

"God, that should be a daily for you... I do heavy bag rounds and then after the rounds, I jump right into the sauna... I go in 196 degrees and I sit in there for 20, 25 minutes... I find that you can do stretches when you're in that 195-, 196-degree heat th..."

Joe Rogan

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30-minute sessions five nights a week

"Me going into a 205 degree barrel for 30 minutes five nights a week... one of the big benefits of sauna use is that it seems to keep your arteries nice, like soft and limber as you age."

Greg LaVecchia

Morning routine

"I do dynamic warm-ups. I do sauna, red light therapy. It's like this 2-hour thing... That whole morning routine, that is my drug... It makes me feel so good. And so I can go and be my best."

Ari Emanuel

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Ashwagandha

Product

2 creators

Sleep

"Oh, I take magnesium L-threonate and ashwagandha for sleep."

Peter Attia

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Sleep support

"There's certain supplements that I use to sleep as well, so I'm a fan of glycine, ashwagandha, magnesium L-threonate."

Peter Attia

Anti-anxiety, cortisol management, sleep, and testosterone; 600 mg daily

"This is ashwagandha. It helps with anti-anxiety, improved cortisol management, improved sleep, and increased testosterone. 600 milligrams once a day."

Bryan Johnson

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Setting circadian rhythm

"Get morning sunlight. Why? To set your circadian rhythm, spike your cortisol. It seems like a blunt tool, but there's a circuit in place from your eye to your hypothalamus that is there for that purpose."

Andrew Huberman

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Entraining the circadian clock, spiking morning cortisol, boosting mood and immunity, improving metabolism, and setting up low cortisol/better sleep at night

"When you view sunlight, there's this beautiful phenomenon. It activates these melanopsin intrinsically photosensitive ganglion cells. Viewing sunlight in the first hour of your day takes this cortisol peak and raises it significantly. There's so much data s..."

Andrew Huberman

Timing the cortisol pulse and setting the circadian rhythm for better sleep

"Get up each morning, try and get outside. Anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes of sunlight exposure is going to work well for most people, and you wanna do this on a regular basis."

Andrew Huberman

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