LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

[Nicotine] is truly a cognitive enhancer. It's a cognitive enhancer. Not gonna lie to you. It will raise attention, focus, cognitive performance. This is established. The problem is it also raises blood pressure and causes vasoconstriction. This is well established.

I know somebody that went from one Zyn pouch twice a week to a canister a morning in about a month because the effect will wear off if you keep consuming it every day. You have to consume more and more. So take that into consideration. Probably best to avoid unless you need really need the boost and you can afford the increase in blood pressure.

There's a debate now about vaping. Is it bad? Is it good? It's bad ... Is it worse for you than smoking? Probably not. Is it better? Probably slightly. You know what's better?Just not doing it.

If you expect yourself to focus, you need to give yourself some warm-up time to focus. Don't assume that you have attention issues if you sit down and it takes 5 or 10 minutes to drop into a state of focus, just like you wouldn't expect yourself to go out for a hard run without some sort of warm-up jog before hand.

I think burnout is very real. And I think burnout... is when we are not getting periodic experiences, if you will, of delight or excitement or a sense of meaning.

So if you've burnt out, I know the feeling. I have burnt out before. And I encourage a combination of rest but also exploration of things that can evoke that kind of internal excitement or sense of meaning.

If oatmeal were gonna kill me, I'd be dead.

I would say that for limiting stress, improving sleep, and restoring mental and physical vigor, NSDR is perhaps the best tool out there.

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