The mind is a powerful place and what you feed it can affect you in a powerful way
How @tobi got over his fear of public speaking:
“I was terrified of public speaking until I sat down for like a week and every day I spent ten minutes just writing that I like public speaking.”
“ If you tell yourself or write something down 100 times about yourself, that writes it into the prefrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling you to that.”
“It’s not a placebo. You actively change your prefrontal cortex.”
Simple test for gauging recovery and workout readiness:
"How do you know when a muscle is ready to be challenged again?"
"If you're training when you're really sore, it's probably not a great idea and it's a good indication that that muscle's not recovered."
"When you start to see a drop-off of 10% or so, or even greater, of your grip output, you really should skip the gym that day."
@trainer2thepros on @hubermanlab
Magnesium Threonate (or Bisglycinate) supplementation can help protect against hearing loss. Also the best treatments for tinnitus. Discussed on the Huberman Lab podcast out now with Dr Stankovic MD, PhD, of @Stanford (She is Chair of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery).
Mild sleep deprivation drives significant increases in hunger, but differentially in men versus women. It makes men release more pro-hunger signals. In women it inhibits satiety via reductions in GLP. This has key implications for how to counter it.
When older folks seek out more and more sugary foods like candy, cookies and ice cream it often is a signal that the brain is becoming compromised and often precedes dementia
A ketogenic diet doesn’t just help with weight loss.
It can drastically increase your odds of surviving one of the world’s deadliest cancers.
By “drastic,” we don’t mean a modest improvement. We mean an eight-fold increase in survival.
Dr. Shawn Baker explains:
“There was a study published last year on brain tumors. About 20 patients. Half did a ketogenic diet, half did not.”
“Over three years, 8 percent of the people that did not do the ketogenic diet survived, and 68 percent survived in the keto group.”
That’s an eight-fold increase in survival.
Baker explains that the mechanism traces back to Otto Warburg’s research: cancer cells preferentially absorb glucose. They feed on sugar.
A ketogenic diet deprives cancer cells of their primary fuel source while providing ketones as an alternative energy source for healthy cells. Healthy cells can function just fine, whereas cancer cells starve and die.
Dr. Thomas Seyfried of Boston College has been advocating ketogenic diets for cancer patients for years for this very reason.
If you or a loved one were diagnosed with cancer today, would a ketogenic diet be part of your plan?
Smart move by the Titans. Filling your body (cell membranes, mitochondrial membranes, lipoproteins) with evolutionarily inappropriate amounts (5-10x) of fragile polyunsaturated fats from industrially refined seed oils (aka engine lubricant) has always been a bad idea.