Why Your Morning Coffee Isn't Working(unless you are Marc Andreessen)
Most energy drinks just dump caffeine in your system to block adenosine. You feel alert for a bit, then your cortisol spikes and you crash. Not ideal.
Better move: pair caffeine with L-theanine. It promotes alpha-wave activity, which means you get the boost without feeling like you're vibrating. Matcha does this naturally: slower uptake, fewer jitters, steadier focus throughout the day.
Here's what actually helps:
Citicoline keeps your attention sharp
Bacopa helps with memory (takes a few weeks to kick in)
Lion's mane supports nerve growth (still early research, but promising)
Rhodiola and cordyceps help you handle stress without frying your nervous system
Add some turmeric and vitamin C to deal with oxidative stress. B-vitamins keep your cells running...
The best ready-made formulation I've found which achieves this and more is Magic Mind, it packs all of this into one shot (matcha, L-theanine, nootropics, adaptogens, the complete package). It's designed for mental performance without the crash or the pill fatigue.
The pharmaceutical industry, deservingly so, has earned a reputation for being manipulative, greedy, and deceptive. Honestly, going into this, we expected Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly (the largest pharma company in the world) to just be another industry shill. We couldn't have been more wrong. Dave explains how Eli Lilly is openly combating the rigged U.S. healthcare system by eliminating middlemen through direct-to-consumer medicine, by being transparent about drug costs under a "one fair price" principle, and by creating reliable generics of its own drugs
Huberman sits down with Dr. Jack Feldman, a UCLA researcher who basically lives and breathes the science of… well, breathing. The two break down why your body switches from nose to mouth breathing when you exercise, how CO2 levels (not oxygen) actually drive anxiety, and why breathing studies in mice prove breathwork really works without placebo effects getting in the way. They also get into practical takeaways you can use right away: quick 5–10 minute breathing exercises to reset your mood or energy during the day, and why magnesium L-threonate is so good for cognitive health
Ben Patrick, aka KneesOverToesGuy, is the rare guru who’s actually legit. He will help you achieve less knee pain and more knee ability, with or without equipment. I personally rehabbed my knee for soccer using his app that lets his trainers give you guidance on form/exercises via videos you share, and it genuinely made a difference. 10/10 would (and have) recommend
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How to build bulletproof knees (with no injuries after 100k+ sled sessions)
Tim Ferriss’ own “2% Rule” for long-term fitness upgrades
Lessons straight from Charles Poliquin & Ben’s most-watched video
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“If you don’t have skepticism, the government runs us. We don’t run the government.” – Gavin de Becker
Here’s What’s in Childhood Vaccines Right Now (says Gavin): gelatin from boiled pig skin, chicken embryo protein, blood from hearts of cow fetuses, DNA fragments from human fetuses, oil from shark livers, proteins from worm ovaries, and DNA fragments from monkey kidneys
Other modern ingredients include: formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (linked to infertility), potassium chloride (the third injection in lethal injections), sodium borate, Triton X (what’s in spermicides), and until recently ethyl mercury
“The death rate for vaccinated children with measles is zero. The death rate for unvaccinated children (of which there are 9 million in America) is zero.” – Gavin de Becker
Very Few Things Are Purely Organic Events... Any giant social movement like COVID (not the virus but the response) is not accidental
This is not people going “oh we thought this and we tried that and we were just doing our best to figure stuff out.” That theory is now impossible
There’s One Vaccine Gavin Thinks Is a Great Product: the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis
It’s used in almost every country on earth, it’s 100 years old, and it has other health benefits like helping with respiratory problems and bladder cancer
Guess what country it’s not used in? The United States of America
They would say “well there isn’t that much tuberculosis,” but there’s 9,000 cases a year versus tetanus with 13 cases every 10 years
The US Dropped Infected Ticks on Cuba?
Lyme disease is likely the result of experimentation (though some push back on this)
Plum Island was doing bioweapons research and one of the projects was taking ticks and infecting them so you could drop them off helicopters and overwhelm a medical system
This is established, it’s true. And Plum Island was right outside of Lyme, Connecticut
Quick Note on ChatGPT and Grok: the first answer you get will usually be the orthodox answer, the approved answer
You have to keep asking, you have to push the thing
Then you’ll get remarkable information that way, but you still have to check it all
The recording doesn’t capture the full spectrum of frequency content of your voice
Your brain turns down the volume: Your brain turns down the volume just before you speak, so you don’t get blasted by the sound of your own voice
Bone conduction: Some of what we’re picking up is through bone conduction
Headphone Safety Threshold: If headphones are loud enough that somebody besides you can hear that there is a sound (not even the specific sounds), you’re inflicting hearing damage
Are Bluetooth Headphones Safe? The amount of radiation coming from Bluetooth headphones is considerably lower than the radiation you’re exposed to all day, every day
Neurosurgeon Matt McDougall from Neuralink wasn’t concerned. Check out the notes here
Earthquakes Start With Sound, Not Shaking... People don’t realize this if they’ve never been in a major earthquake. The first thing that happens is it sounds like a train is about to come through the room. Then the shaking starts shortly after
Theory of Why Rhythm Exists (Not Groh’s Theory): “Perhaps rhythm and music help us act in concert with one another and be louder than any of us could be by ourselves, and to scare off predators and competitors.” – Dr. Jennifer Groh
What Is the Optimal Thing to Listen to for Focus? The data basically point to silence is best
Groh’s workspace strategy: She works in her basement now. Set it up as an ideal work environment: no phones, no internet. When she goes down there, it’s just her and her thoughts. She allows some music. But the first 10-15 minutes are excruciating
“We’ve kind of eliminated boredom from life, and that might not be a good thing. Boredom is when some of our best thinking happens.” – Dr. Jennifer Groh
Fanaticism is what carries entrepreneurs, athletes, and artists through the hard times
The best are never satisfied; this is the common theme across the best athletes, celebrities, and founders
Always be raising the bar
James Dyson Autobiography: this is David’s top book recommendation after decades of studying entrepreneurs
Keys to a Successful Business Partnership:
They 100% believe in what you are doing
You are certain that they are not going to sell that stock to somebody else
(It is very difficult to find a partner that can satisfy these two criteria)
The Importance of Quality and Focus:
History’s greatest entrepreneurs are obsessed with what they do; if often keeps them up at night because they cannot stop thinking about their business
He studied In-n-Out and learned that a successful restaurant could thrive doing one thing well
“Never sacrifice quality for speed.”
Focus on one thing and do it better than anybody else
The Raising Cane’s menu is focused, but it is not simple
The chicken comes from a specific kind of bird
Potatoes for fries are harvested at a specific time of year
Fries are a particular width
Bread is made by specific bakeries all over the country
Tea leaves are imported from three different countries
Quality ingredients create craveable products; make quality products that people lust over
The Best Thing an Aspiring Entrepreneur Can Be Told:
“I don’t think that’s a good idea, I don’t think you can do that”
Entrepreneurs have something to prove; they want to prove that their vision about the world is right
The best entrepreneurs treat every ‘no’ they get as fuel
The Machine is this huge force taking over humanity and it’s basically made up of technology, centralization of power, and the endless obsession with economic growth that’s consuming everything organic about human life
Kingsnorth says we created this thing ourselves but now it’s turning us into parts of a system instead of actual humans with roots and communities, which is pretty dark when you think about it
The Four Ps vs The Four S’s:
The four Ps were the foundation of premodern society: people, place, prayer, and the past
Now we have the four S’s which is basically the theology of the Mac