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What helped you not to wake up during the night?

To have constant uninterrupted and deep sleep and not to wake up often during the night...

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u/mislimkao — 2 days ago

Whats your sauna protocol and have you actually noticed a difference?

I have been trying to dial in a more consistent sauna routine lately and could use some guidance from people who’ve been doing it for a while. Right now I’m usually doing around 20-30 minutes and 3-4 times a week on my Sweat tent sauna and mostly after training or in the evening. I feel great afterward and I usually sleep better, but I’m not sure if I’m actually hitting the right frequency or duration for the longer term benefits people talk about. What are you guys doing for frequency, time and temperature? And did you notice any difference once you got more consistent?

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u/Distinct-Mistake-563 — 2 days ago

Hot vs cold showers

Has anyone else noticed that hot showers seem to increase libido, while cold showers or ice-cold baths seem to decrease it?

I’m curious whether there’s a physiological reason for this or if it’s just an individual response. What’s your experience?

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u/Plane-Advertising-47 — 3 days ago

Which supplement helped you the most with depression?

And how did it specifically affect?

It can also be a natural remedy, it doesn't have to be a supplement.

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u/mislimkao — 4 days ago

Quick confidence tip 😀

I want to share a quick tip with you how to build confidence fast

Use cold water exposure ( shower or plunge ) and stay in the water if you can't stay you have a governor in your brain that's limiting your potential

You can stay up to hours in water not ice bath just cold

This is the first thing

Second thing : physical stress as weight lifting or bodyweight use is nothing is just training your brain to stress and build muscles but water exposure is what change brain connections and strengthening it .

It's like 85% for cold exposure and 15% physical exercise

For the social interactions and any other achievements as studying or having a good grade ... it have no relation with confidence it is a sense of achievement the confidence is what i said here it grow with pain and positive physical pain as cold exposure

For how much time it depends on you and the effort you make if you do it all day you'll grow fast if you do a little effort or skip days you'll need more time .

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u/Cortex2188x — 3 days ago

Has anyone actually done a sweat test to measure electrolyte loss?

I run a ton and always notice visible salt on my clothing / body after. During harder efforts or hotter days, the effects of dehydration are more noticeable. Wondering if sweat tests are valuable in informing how much sodium to supplement, or is just guessing and taking a bunch good enough.

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u/bigboihou — 3 days ago

Minimum sets to trigger muscle growth, per muscle, per week

I am a lil shy of time hence i need to keep my workout crisp Would y'all be so kind to help me out here.

So i am struggling a lot with back training, i currently do one horizontal and one vertical pull excercise 3-4 per excercise

Most parts i train in a similar fashion, 2-3 excercises and 3 to 4 sets of high intensity

Lemme know if i am doing things wrong and someone pls drop a GOOD BACK WORKOUT ROUTINE

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u/Quiet-Emphasis-9012 — 4 days ago

Why am I not getting big?

I alternate push/pull about 6 days a week, and have gained some muscle but feel like I should be bigger have been doing it for around 8 months. Any tips or things to add?

Push Day — Chest, Triceps

  1. Flat chest press — 4 sets (heavy then moderate)
  2. Chest fly machine — 3×12–15
  3. Incline chest press — 3×10–12
  4. Overhead tricep extension — 3×12–15
  5. Tricep kickback — 3×12–15
  6. Rope pushdown — 3×15–20 (last set to failure)
  7. Shoulder Press

Pull Day — Back, Biceps, Rear Delts

  1. Single-arm DB row — 4×10–12
  2. Lat pulldown — 4×10–12
  3. Seated cable row — 3×10–12
  4. Bicep curl — 3×10–12
  5. Hammer curl — 3×12–15
  6. Concentration curl — 2×15 (last set to failure)
  7. Face pulls — 3×15–20 (last set to failure)
  8. Rear delt fly — 3×15–20 (last set to failure)
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u/Genzinvestor16180339 — 5 days ago

Another reason to get morning light consistently: your circadian clock may help protect against infection

A new study found that Staphylococcus aureus invasion of human lung cells changed depending on the cells’ circadian phase.

When researchers disrupted the cellular clock by reducing BMAL1, a core circadian clock protein, bacterial invasion increased and the normal rhythm of susceptibility was blunted.

The effect was surprisingly large: bacterial uptake varied roughly 2–3x depending on circadian timing.

The study didn't test morning light directly, so we can't say morning sunlight prevents infection. But morning light is one of the strongest signals for keeping the human circadian system synchronized.

Another reason to think about circadian health as more than just sleep....

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u/DrJ_Lume — 3 days ago

I extracted 51 distinct CAFFEINE protocols from all 400+ episodes, and ranked them by how often Huberman repeats them. Six of the top ten aren't in his caffeine episode.

I listened to the caffeine episode a while back, the dedicated one from December 2022, and assumed that was the whole picture.

Then I kept running into caffeine advice in episodes that had nothing to do with caffeine. Something about carbs blunting it in an episode on cortisol. A warning about mixing it with MDMA, etc.

So I got curious and wrote a script to pull every caffeine-related recommendation out of all 400+ episodes, with a timestamp on each one. 51 separate protocols. The caffeine episode mentioned only 13 of them.

The part I found more useful than any single tip: once you have all of it, you can rank by how often he actually repeats something. Saying a thing once in an AMA and saying it in dozens of separate episodes are not the same claim.

Here're the top ten by mention counts:

  1. Delay caffeine 90 to 120 minutes after waking (30 mentions). His most-repeated caffeine take. But it has been tweaked over the years. At first he just states it as two hours (clip). Later it becomes "if, and only if, you have trouble with an afternoon crash" (clip). In the Galpin series he only does it on days he isn't training (clip). Most recently the number itself has moved to "60 to 90 minutes" (clip).
  2. Stop by mid-afternoon (28 mentions). Eight hours before bed minimum, ideally ten to twelve (clip). The reason it keeps coming up is that caffeine fragments deep sleep even when it doesn't stop you falling asleep.
  3. Front-load it in the morning (26 mentions). Yes, this overlaps with 1 and 2, but he states it as its own instruction very often. Roughly half of everything he says about caffeine is about when. This one is not in the caffeine episode.
  4. Yerba mate (26 mentions). His actual default, not coffee. Non-smoked only, because the smoked kind may be carcinogenic (clip). He also reuses the same leaves all day. He says you pull out more of the GLP-1 compounds as you go (clip).
  5. Coffee or tea during a fast (8 mentions), none of them are from the caffeine episode. Black coffee and unsweetened tea are treated as fasting-compatible, and caffeine in pill form explicitly does not break a fast (clip).
  6. Not energy drinks (6 mentions). Plain coffee or tea instead. If you're going to drink one anyway, he wants you to know what every ingredient in it does (clip).
  7. Take it before training (5 mentions). Water plus caffeine is the entire pre-workout he endorses. Skip it if it makes you jittery or scatters your attention (clip).
  8. Three to four cups a day at most (5 mentions). Benefits look U-shaped and start coming back down past that (clip).
  9. Topical caffeine, for hair (4 mentions). This is the one that surprised me the most. He says caffeine cream on the scalp goes head to head with minoxidil for keeping the hair you have and growing some back, without minoxidil's blood pressure problems (clip). 
  10. Abstain two to four days before something that matters (4 mentions), then take it 30 minutes before. Same dose hits much harder once sensitivity comes back (clip).

I included 41 other protocols on this page, grouped by the question they answer (e.g. dose, timing).

u/tracyhenry400 — 6 days ago

Wim Hoff breathing

I’ve recently started Wim Hoff breathing every day. I watched a few videos on the health benefits of it but I’m curious if anyone else has tried it before and if you noticed any health benefits from it.

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u/snappy4827 — 7 days ago

Which supplement had the biggest impact on your mental health?

And how did it specifically affect?

It can also be a natural remedy, it doesn't have to be a supplement.

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u/mislimkao — 8 days ago

Need help for friend whose Dopamine Receptors are fried.

Hi. So my friend is a chronic pmo addict.

He is trying to stop.

Each time he gets a Dopamine Crash, he turns to Pmo to save him.

What would be the process of recovery for him and his dopamine receptors?

He says he would prefer some pills to take to help him recover whenever he gets a dopamine crash.

Are such pills available? I don't want to turn him into a drug addict.

Wondering what to do.

Edit: He doesn't want to spike his dopamine. He wants to heal his dopamine receptors.

Also without dopamine, he won't be able to do work because of an on coming Dopamine crash.

So when that crash happens, what should he do or take?

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u/stayawakeandalive — 9 days ago
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Being a night owl may show up in your blood...

Researchers found higher fasting pyruvate in evening chronotypes than morning chronotypes, despite no obvious differences in many routine metabolic measures.

Pyruvate is one of the main junctions between glucose breakdown and mitochondrial energy production, so this could be an early signal of chronotype-related metabolic differences.

But it is not proof that night owls have dysfunctional mitochondria. This was a small, cross-sectional study with only 20 evening types.

An interesting finding. Definitely not a verdict on night owls.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2026.1839777/full

The association with pyruvate was the most consistent result; findings involving lactate and citrate were weaker, and the authors explicitly caution that pyruvate alone cannot establish altered mitochondrial function

u/DrJ_Lume — 10 days ago