A Stanford professor explains:
"Chronically high cortisol hurts your memory, enlarges your fear center, and can shrink your brain."
Here are 8 protocols to beat it:
1. Walk barefoot
Andrew Huberman says if you wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back asleep, 2 simple moves can get you back to sleep in about 5 minutes:
"I've published clinical trials on some of these things, like respiration physiology and its role in stress and de-stress."
"If you wake up in the middle of the night and you're having trouble falling back asleep, try just doing some long extended exhales."
"And get this. This sounds really weird, but it has a basis in physiology. Keep your eyes closed and just move your eyes from side to side behind your eyelids, back and forth, and do some long exhales."
"I can't promise, but I'm willing to wager, like maybe one pinky, that within 5 minutes or so, you'll be back to sleep."
If I became insulin resistant tomorrow, I would immediately reconsider what I eat for breakfast.
Here’s exactly what I’d KEEP, MODIFY or REMOVE from 10 of the world’s most common breakfasts.
Mind wandering can help you — or trap you in years of rumination.
Here are 5 signs you’re stuck in unhealthy mind wandering — especially if you wake at 3 AM or have a tanked libido.
1. You keep asking the same questions.