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Why Does Andrew Huberman Feel Alert After an All-nighter? · Lex Fridman Podcast

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#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind

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  1. Why Does Andrew Huberman Feel Alert After an All-nighter? at 7:20

    Andrew Huberman says two forces decide sleepiness and wakefulness. The longer someone stays awake, the more adenosine accumulates in the brain. Full answer

  2. Why Does Fasting Make You More Alert? at 40:37

    On the show, being fasted increases alertness because fasting puts high levels of epinephrine in the system. Full answer

  3. Why Does Lost Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Magnify Small Stuff? at 47:39

    Andrew Huberman says depriving people of rapid eye movement sleep makes them selectively bad at uncoupling emotion from things that happened in the previous… Full answer

  4. Why Did Mice Get Fat Eating the Same Food? at 1:06:47

    On the show, limiting calories to four, six, eight, or even ten hours of every 24-hour cycle, kept more or less with the light and with when the sun is out… Full answer

  5. Why Does Salt in Water Stop Fasting Shakes? at 1:14:07

    Salt is great unless a person has hypertension, provided they drink enough water. Full answer

  6. Did Fish Oil Match Prozac for Depression? at 1:20:38

    On the show, placebo-controlled double-blind studies have shown that getting at least a thousand milligrams of EPA can offset antidepressive symptoms as much… Full answer

  7. Why Do Morning Dreams Work Like Trauma Therapy? at 1:26:56

    On the show, rapid eye movement dreams that dominate towards morning divorce emotion from prior experiences and extract general rules and themes. Full answer

  8. Why Did Octopi Start Cuddling on Ecstasy? at 1:39:20

    On the show, a postdoc at Stanford put octopi on MDMA, also called ecstasy. She had a paper in Current Biology showing what the animals did next. Full answer

  9. Why Is the Drug Ecstasy So Unusual? at 1:43:24

    On the show, ecstasy is a very unusual drug in a kit that also includes psilocybin and LSD. Full answer

  10. Why Call Dimethyltryptamine a Freight Train? at 1:49:11

    DMT taps a brain state distinctly different from LSD and psilocybin. Full answer

  11. Why Mine Joe Rogan Videos for Blink Signals? at 2:11:24

    On the show, Lex Fridman downloaded every Joe Rogan podcast as video from before Joe Rogan went with Spotify and kept the files as a private collection. Full answer

  12. What Was Hardest About Making Huberman Lab? at 2:22:28

    On Huberman Lab, the hardest part turned out to be staying on a single topic for three or four more episodes before switching to a new topic. Full answer

  13. How Many Hours Does Andrew Huberman Prep a Podcast? at 2:30:15

    Andrew Huberman puts at least 10 to 15 hours of passive listening preparation into each podcast. He says the active preparation might be five or six hours. Full answer

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