Dr. Sara Gottfried describes a phenotype of women, possibly related to CAG repeats on the androgen receptor, who are exquisitely sensitive to the decline in free testosterone caused by the birth control pill.
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Jeff Cavalier points out that canned soup contains extremely high amounts of sodium — often 800-900 milligrams per can — due to the preservatives required to make canned food last. He adds that labels list 800-900mg of sodium but say it's for two servings, and nobody eats just half a can.
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In order to fall asleep and stay deeply asleep, your body temperature has to drop by about one to three degrees; to wake up feeling refreshed and energized, it has to increase by about one to three degrees. Ensuring the correct temperature of your sleeping environment is one of the best ways to get a great night's sleep.
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Jesse describes sulforaphane in cruciferous vegetables as providing anti-inflammatory benefits (a win-win for hard-training people), a powerful antioxidant, and having the ability to inhibit myostatin — which signals muscle breakdown — allowing new muscle growth. He credits Rhonda Patrick with going into great detail about sulforaphane in cruciferous vegetables.
Huberman suggests using caffeine at lower dosages than found in coffee or tea as a reasonable stimulant-based approach to enhance cognitive function and focus.
Huberman notes that taking vitamin and mineral supplements without food can cause stomach upset, so they should be taken with food.
Jesse adds fruit, pumpkin, walnuts, and even a little whipped cream to oatmeal to make it taste better.
Jesse avoids bacon and sausage at breakfast because he doesn't follow a high-fat meal plan.
Jesse puts cinnamon in his oatmeal along with skim milk, and suggests combining foods to become more efficient with food choices.
Many people hear AI, robot, and surgery together and get alarmed, fearing it can go rogue or has a mind of its own. Thompson counters that AI surgical assistance is trained on thousands of procedures — more than any individual surgeon has done — which is why it recognizes patterns well. Surgeons should still use their own clinical judgment and may sometimes ignore the AI's suggestions; fully automated operative robots would be a different situation. AI that suggests where to put a stitch or shows where a blood vessel is provides a huge advantage.
Dr. Thompson reports that nausea is a common reason patients struggle with GLP-1s: they won't lose weight on the low dose but feel nauseous on the high dose. He adds that some people say GLP-1s stop working, which might be because they don't tolerate the higher doses.
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The combination of AI with good microscopes — worn on the eyes or looked down — plus better surgical tools is an obvious win, and such technologies have improved the margins of safety and outcomes tremendously. Surgeons wear microscopes on their eyes, optics that let them see things bigger.
Dr. Thompson frames health and biology as influenced by mechanical and chemical influences, which he calls 'reading from the body' — like sleep scores, heart rate, or blood pressure. He gives the example that when someone has pain in their side, an ultrasound can reveal a structure that doesn't belong there, informing the decision to operate.
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Some procedures can't be learned in a weekend course and require a year or more of training. Physicians won't dedicate a year, so some do a weekend course, find it too hard, and never adopt it — while those who adopt after only a weekend course and aren't ready make referring doctors reluctant. Referrers often wait to see whether insurance companies think the procedure is a good idea before sending patients.
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Dr. Chris Thompson cautions that taking a bunch of saturated fat is not great either — you can't be on super high saturated fat with an ApoB through the roof. Either way — high insulin spiking or high saturated fat — it's not good. Most of the time in Western countries, it's the glucose and insulin that are the problem, and it's the very beginning of it.
Huberman notes that when he asks people in medicine about new self-directed diagnostics, they almost inevitably say give it 20 months and it will be standard. CGMs faced pushback at first but are now widely accepted by physicians, suggesting a pattern of eventual adoption.
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Even when procedures have gone through rigorous evaluations and have FDA approval, many people are reluctant to send patients for them. Thompson hypothesizes the reluctance may be cultural — physicians may be afraid they'll do it wrong because it's like a new skill to learn.
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Dr. Chris Thompson argues that surgeons who do not adapt to new tools and techniques put their patients at risk of dying.
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Dr. Chris Thompson argues that patients who get a CGM are generally trying to do the right thing, so concerns that they will misuse the data are overblown.
Dr. Chris Thompson explains that most people underestimate how dramatically GLP-1 drugs raise circulating GLP-1 — not two- or fourfold but roughly a thousandfold — and that no one in human history has walked around with blood GLP-1 levels like drug users have. Natural GLP-1 is produced in small amounts by L cells in response to a meal and then goes away, so drug doses are super-physiologic, bathing the area of the prostrema in the chemical in a non-physiologic way.
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