00:22:43 · Daisy Wolf, Andrew Huberman
[00:22:43] S1: I was upsold on blue light blocking contact lenses the last time I got my contacts prescribed. And my husband says it makes my eyes look freaky, but I was like, I'm not going back to [00:22:53] S0: So they blue light you. [00:22:53] S1: The ophthalmologist. [00:22:54] S0: Yeah. You need some short wavelength light during the day on your skin and in your eyes to generate vitamin D, for instance. I mean Yeah. UV light is not across the board bad. I should mention that when the sun is low in the sky, the UV index is very low. I mean, one of the reasons that you can look at the rising sun or the setting sun and it doesn't hurt your eyes Mhmm. Is because there's this phenomenon of atmospheric Rayleigh scattering where the short wavelengths like UV are filtered out. When the sun is overhead, it's extremely bright. Yeah. It's painful to look at. That's because you're getting a lot more of the shorter wavelength light reaching your eyes. So if people are concerned about UV exposure, morning and evening or late afternoon light exposure is very low UV. Or you can just look at the UV index. It's, you know, with a Totally. Google search or something. [00:23:40] S1: Did you take any supplements or medications yesterday? Loads. Quickly took them off. Sure. Right.
00:23:49 · Andrew Huberman
[00:23:49] S0: So this is not a promotional, I want to be very clear. This is what I've done, and what I've actually been doing most of these things since 2012. So I do take AG1 twice a day. I do that in the morning, usually right before my first meal of the day and in the evening. People say, okay. That... That's because they're they're a sponsor of the podcast. I use it just as I describe it as a cover nutritional basis where if I didn't eat enough fruits and vegetables or something, can cover any gaps. I like it. So I've been doing that for a very long time, long before I knew what a podcast was. I take fish oil. I'm a big believer in high doses of EPA omega threes. There's this whole debate about omega six to omega three ratios. These days, I find the most efficient way to get above a gram of EPA per day, and not just above a gram of fish oil, is to take Lovaza, which is a prescription omega three. It also... All the heavy metals have been extracted, so you don't have to worry about that. And there are generic versions of it, so it's pretty inexpensive now. So I think people might wanna take Lovaza. They might not, but I take Lovaza. I take some vitamin d. I take three to five thousand units of vitamin d three. And my morning supplement ingestion includes... I actually I actually believe in some of the herbal supplements just based on my blood work. I take four hundred milligrams of something called Tongkat Ali, which is an Indonesian ideal... There are a couple different versions, but I take Tongkat Ali, it's known to help the unbinding of something called sex hormone binding globulin from testosterone, so it frees up testosterone a bit. Men and women can take this. I don't have any financial relationship with the companies that sell it, so I take the Solaray version. It's also the the least expensive. So... And I I do that. I take I take something called p five p, which is a vitamin b six derivative. I take fifty milligrams of that. It's a... I take that to slightly reduce prolactin. I don't have high prolactin, but I do that. In the morning. You sort of want to amplify the cortisol and so called catecholamine, so dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine kind of milieu, and it can assist with that a bit. And let's see, what else? Oh, I take N acetylcysteine, six hundred milligrams a day, it's a glutathione precursor.
00:26:24 · Andrew Huberman, Daisy Wolf
N acetylcysteine, there's a really nice study showing that N acetylcysteine, six hundred to nine hundred milligrams taken three times per day can reduce the likelihood that you will catch flu. And they did this study by exposing people [00:26:41] S1: I other people with flu only take it if I feel like I'm getting
00:26:43 · Andrew Huberman
[00:26:43] S0: Great. It can make your nose run a little bit. It's a mucolytic. It's actually used in other contexts and dosages for cystic fibrosis, which is the buildup of fluid in the lungs. So, it's a pretty powerful tool. I take it once per day, and if I'm feeling run down, if I'm traveling, or if I'm around somebody who's sick, I'll pick three times a day. It can also perhaps help shorten the course of a cold or flu. But I learned this trick from an ER doc who was working through the pandemic and needed to stay healthy. But the data in that paper, and I can provide you a link if you want, are pretty interesting. The sort of transmission of flu in this case was, I think it was in the mid seventy percentage points of people who took the placebo got the flu by being exposed to clearly flu virus, and I think that number reduced to the high twenties in the group that took N acetylcysteine. You'll have to double check on those numbers. So pretty impressive. I figured safe, increasing glutathione's safe, so why not? No financial relationship to any company that sells it, but they're all pretty much equivalent. And then with lunch, I take a multivitamin. I take two digestive enzymes. I definitely think that can help. If somebody gets itchy after food or thinks they have food allergies before you run off and do some expensive food allergy analysis or something like that, or treatment, recommend there's a there's a enzyme to... That you can take before you eat any histaminergic foods, completely transformed my relationship to food because I can eat pretty much anything now.
00:28:18 · Daisy Wolf, Andrew Huberman
[00:28:18] S1: Cool. [00:28:18] S0: This was a tool that was actually suggested to me by a colleague at Stanford, which doesn't necessarily mean it's a clinical study, but makes sense. If you're not making enough of the enzyme to process histaminergic foods, you can imagine you might get some uncomfortable symptoms. Yeah. [00:28:33] S1: I'm a very allergic person. I feel like I need to know that.
00:28:35 · Andrew Huberman
[00:28:35] S0: This is great. I mean... And it... I used to get sleepy after eating certain foods. I'm like, what is this? It was often dairy foods that would make me... And I thought, it's tryptophan. That turns out to be nonsense. There's not enough tryptophan in dairy or turkey relative to other things. I see it as kinda like itchy around my eyebrows. And people who are kind of prone to autoimmune conditions, like people who have... Like for me, if people have a little bit of psoriasis or something like that, oftentimes they'll find that these foods are kind of irritating to them, so I do that. Also, what I'm describing here, it probably costs less than a penny a day for this enzyme. So it's a trivial a trivial cost. So let's see. And then in that meal is when I take the the Lovaza multivitamin. I do take I do take a desiccated liver. People have to be careful about increasing iron load because it's high in heme iron, but I don't wanna eat liver. I have no interest in eating liver. It it doesn't appeal to me, but I take it for some of the nutrients that are there. And then in the evening, again, not a promotional, but the sleep supplement that's been far and away the best thing for me is just to take AGZ, which is a cocktail of things that I help them create. So it's got magnesium three and eight. Yep. It's got theanine, it's got the tart cherry, it's got all the extracts and things combined. I take that and my sleep's spectacular. It actually allowed me to stop carrying around a bunch of different pills. Experimented with peptides, and I have been open about my experimentation with some other things in the hormone and peptide area, maybe we separate that conversation. Because what I just described, I want to be very clear, is basically what I did between age, gosh, 20, plus or minus, I mean, aging didn't exist and some things like that. But... And 45. At 45, I started to experiment with a few other things, but that's that. I have... I will say, if you wanna have a conversation about some of the tools, especially here in Silicon Valley that people are experimenting with for focus, and some of the stimulant and non stimulant approaches to focus, I spent a lot of time researching that, and I've spent some time experimenting with that too.