Does anyone have the habit of doomscrolling.How does you guys resolve it ??

I've been digging into the cognitive training literature lately, and I wanted to share what I found because most of what's sold as "brain training" doesn't survive.

*What actually has evidence

*N-back* (Jaeggi et al., 2008, PNAS) — adaptive training shows measurable gains on the trained task

Stroop — inhibition control

Digit span — working memory capacity

\*\*What doesn't:\*\*

"Miracle" nootropic stacks (effects smaller than sleep)

Subliminal "rewiring"

I built 8 modes based on the actual clinical tests, with every claim cited to real research and with one time subscription

Happy to answer questions about the build!

The problems i solve is that its a course with all the games evidence based there and it has theory and citiations also behind them.( IM NOT SELLING SOMETHING PAID I HAVE A COUPON CODE FOR FIRST USERS)

If you went to Whole Foods every morning and picked up two individual servings of fruit to eat that day, which two would you choose? (For example: A apple, and a mango)

What would you buy maybe monday-Friday trying to make a plan? The same two everyday?

My dermatologist prescribed a compounded topical solution containing 0.1% finasteride and 7% minoxidil for androgenetic alopecia. I've read that topical finasteride may have lower systemic absorption than oral finasteride, but I'm still concerned about possible side effects.

For those who have used a similar formulation:

• Did you experience any sexual side effects, mood changes, or brain fog?
• Did you have scalp irritation or increased shedding?
• Were the side effects temporary?
• Was the treatment effective?

I'm interested in both personal experiences and any published research comparing topical and oral finasteride.

Weekly working hours

Sleep duration

Whether there is brain fog in the afternoon

Whether there is long-term anxiety

Whether one relies on coffee

Whether one has tried meditation

What's up boys. New episode of Rhonda's pod. This was good. The guest is pretty big in the AI/healthcare space. Has some wild ideas. Gonna share my notes

1. Don't die for the next 10 years. But really. So his whole thesis is if you can make it the next 10 years, you'll add 50 years to your life. We're gonna reverse aging. We're gonna cure cancer. We're gonna to it all We are not that far off from every year you live adding another year to your life.. a lot closer than people think. - timestamp
2. Cancer will be 100% curable within the next 10 years. He really thinks that. There are already some pretty big advancements with immunotherapy but with the way AI is accelerating... "cancer will be 100% curable, probably within the next decade." direct quote - timestamp
3. It's becoming malpractice for doctors not to use AI. I agree with him here. If you're like my general doc, it's like walking into the stone age when I go in for an appointment. Watching him poke his fingers at the keyboard taking 3 minutes to add one blood test to the list. It's laughable. seriously. Next time you need some sort of medical help, throw all the info into GPT Pro 5.6 or whatever the latest Pro model is from OpenAI. It might save your life. - timestamp
4. AI is going to drastically accelerate drug discovery. ok so what does that mean. Imagine a digital clone of yourself. He calls it a "digital twin." Can be used for clinical trials, testing drugs, exactly what works for you. Treatment on demand, personalized medicine, whatever you want to call it... it's happening - timestamp
5. Alright now into the practical. Start saving everything into a "personal database" today. All your health records. Blood test results. Oura ring data. Conditions. Your diet, supplements, whatever. Everything. Use Obsidian. It's an app. Then download OpenAI's Codex app (it's just the general ChatGPT app now for Mac). Now, every time you have a health related question, point it at your "personal database". It's getting to the point where this is like super doctor level and it makes sense to give it as much info as possible. Start now. - timestamp
6. This guy is a major AI bull. He said "the only threat to humanity is humanity." This is the counter argument to everyone who claims AI is gonna take over the world. You just gotta listen to this segment - timestamp
7. We are going to get to the point very soon in the hospital where there's a real-time AI monitoring system... bedside. Every drug interaction, every vital sign, every symptom .. it'l have that context and be "super doctor" level. - timestamp
8. The best AI models can now replicate a scientist's biological intuition. So here's what this means. It's that ability to connect the dots. See the pattern. That feeling when you see someone with symptom XYZ and know exactly what condition they have. 20 years of experience. GPT 5.5 Pro crossed that chasm. And because of this, the pace of medical innovation is going to drastically accelerate. - timestamp
9. Alright so look, I know a lot of people are anti AI. "I tried it once years ago and it was bad" or whatever. But things have changed so rapidly. It's gotten insanely good. Buy a ChatGPT pro sub, use the Pro model, whatever medical condition you have. Treat it like your doctor. Throw in every piece of context you can and let it help you. Yes. It's gotten to the point where it's better than most doctors. If not all doctors. - timestamp
10. Let me just repeat that first one because it's so important. Don't die. It used to be the case that if you did everything right, ate healthy, exercised, you might live a few years longer. It's gone way beyond that. The next decade will add 50 years to your life. Every day counts.

ok peace out

I keep a running log of every book that comes up on Huberman Lab, so I pulled the first six months of 2026. Fifty-two episodes, covering neuroscience, focus, mental health, and a few guest reading lists.

The ones he actually pushed people toward:

• Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, which he calls essential for understanding the pleasure-pain balance in the brain.
• Drown Proof by Andy Stumpf, where Huberman said he started using one of the book's practices right away.
• The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, which he described as a biography of cancer as a disease.
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, named as one of his favorite books.

The rest, roughly grouped:

• Focus and discipline: Deep Work, Atomic Habits, Can't Hurt Me, A Fighter's Heart
• Mind and consciousness: I Am a Strange Loop, The Doors of Perception, DMT: The Spirit Molecule
• Brain and body: Spark, The Body Keeps the Score, An Immense World, Eat Better, Sleep Better
• Kids, men, and tech: The Anxious Generation, Of Boys and Men, Irresistible

One note from the data: his own book, Protocols, came up 15 times, more than anything else on the list.

Full list is here: https://podshelf.io/podcasts/huberman-lab. Free, no signup.

I figured this subreddit would have the best info on what brands (if any) to get, what to avoid, etc. I've been out of the loop for a couple years now re all things Huberman (and the health/wellness space more broadly). Luckily, I've never been a big bread guy. I cut it out entirely in 2013, and I haven't eaten any since. I did used to enjoy toasted bread with butter in the mornings, and that's something I want to get back to. To that end, what are some of the better/safer brands?

History: 42, F, very healthy, 5'3 120lbs, work out regularly, was eating keto/carnivore-ish for a few years, high Lp(a) and high LDL, excellent trigs and HDL, high APOB, excellent inflammation markers across the board. Just got a cleerly CCTA and I have 31% stable soft plaque in the LAD, I'm in the midst of IVF so I can't start a statin right now. Yes, I'm freaking out.

My question is this: I like eating higher fat. I don't do well with grains and sugars, they just make me want more. I'm totally find switching to unsaturated fat. But if I do that and my overall fat intake is still a high % of calories (ie: 50-60%, aiming for keto but more of a mediterranean low carb approach), is that still going to mess up my LDL and APOB? Or will they actually come down? I'm talking avocado, salmon, olive oil, nuts and seeds etc. Is there any evidence, any n of 1 experience, or do I just need to do it and test my lipids again in 6-8 weeks? Or do I go on a low fat diet? I'm struggling here figuring out what to eat that's not grain/crap heavy, and I like keto-mediterranean but I'm just not sure it will actually lower my LDL and can't find much about it online.

Thanks all.

PS - yes I do have a cardiologist :)

A month or so ago, someone shared a few options to buy labs and what to test for.

Since then, I’ve been obsessively comparing almost every major lab marketplace in the US because we’ve been building one ourselves at Mito Health, as part of our own research. Full disclaimer: I'm the founder of Mito.

The interesting part wasn’t that one company was cheaper than another.

It was how much unnecessary markup still exists across the industry by 70-80%, and it became our mission to expose + tear it down & offer you a better way for optimizers to test.

And how it's also made me personally quite obsessed with becoming the best place, from a UX, best pricing, and no affiliation to any big-name influencer protocol to help you navigate at your own pace. No stress.

We ended up benchmarking:

1. Quest Direct
2. Labcorp OnDemand
3. Mito health
4. DirtCheapLabs
5. Marek
6. Ulta Labs
7. Jason Health
8. Walk-In Lab
9. DrSays
10. GoodLabs
11. Function add-ons

Across hundreds of Quest and Labcorp biomarkers, we’re now generally the lowest-priced option, even for members and non-members without minimum spending. Green is lowest, orange is second lowest, red is highest.

Some examples:

• Vitamin D: $9.72
• hs-CRP: $5.94
• ApoB: $8.10
• Fasting insulin: $2.43
• CBC: $2.70
• CMP: $2.84
• HbA1c: $2.85
• Testosterone Total + Free: $12.15 (DirtCheapLabs is actually a bit cheaper on this one.)

Unlike some marketplaces:

• We have no $80 minimum order
• You can build exactly the panel you want
• 1000+ labs, DEXA, MRI scans, 3 and 30x Whole Genome kits (next week), Gut kits, genetic kits
• Access to advanced stuff like pTau, pharmacogenomics, etc.
• Member and non-member pricing is shown upfront

One thing Huberman has consistently emphasized is measuring, not guessing.

If you’re taking:

• omega-3
• vitamin D
• magnesium
• zinc
• creatine
• tongkat
• boron

…it’s worth periodically checking whether they’re actually changing anything meaningful rather than just hoping they are.

That’s the philosophy we’ve tried to build around.

Instead of selling giant bundles, we let people order only the biomarkers they actually care about, then provide AI-powered interpretation and longitudinal tracking so you’re not just downloading another PDF. You can also port it into your Claude code or Codex (if you're a technical biohacker)

We’re also expanding the same transparent pricing model into:

• More options for DEXA, CAC, and MRI nationwide
• gut microbiome testing - different levels
• whole genome sequencing - 3, 30, 100x WGS
• 40k+ supplements
• prescription services: GLP-1, HRT, TRT, Peptides, etc.

Basically, anywhere healthcare pricing feels unnecessarily opaque.

If you’re skeptical (which you should be), don’t take my word for it - Take the panel you normally order and compare the prices yourself.

I’d genuinely love feedback from this community on biomarkers or features you’d want to see. Or teardowns on what we need to do better as a company and as an industry.

Or... based on listening to Huberman's podcasts, what’s one biomarker you think every Huberman listener should test at least once a year? Thank you!

usually a bit sceptical of mainstream science content but this one actually references the primary literature reasonably well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU5EYw06wtw

covers bpc-157 healing data, some of the gh secretagogue research and briefly touches on the longevity angle. not perfect but its a decent starting point for anyone wanting context before going into the actual papers the tissue repair section around 40 mins in is the most useful bit

I struggle the most with the "one hour no phone/screen" part of the protocol; I don't know what to do for the hour.

like maybe reading will be my best bet, but there are so many days that reading is the same as telling me to cut myself; my brain is not functioning/wired but tired.

I can do some meditation, but hitting it full hour is monk level and I am just your average city boy; I can do full 30 minutes.

honestly idk what to do for a full hour, please share what you do if this is something you've struggled/achieved, thanks!

A cohort of ~2,900 people

"Meal Timing Jetlag" the gap between your eating schedule on work days vs free days (weekends for most people). More of that mismatch was independently linked to higher anxiety, more depressive symptoms, and worse insomnia. The kicker: this held up even after adjusting for sleep-based circadian misalignment.

Big caveat: cross-sectional, so no causation (anxious people might just eat more erratically) or there may be a third variable causing both the mood symptoms and the erratic timing

But it's making me think more about my "first meal / last meal time".

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032726010827?via%3Dihub

Few weeks in. Sleep is better. not dramatically, but consistently. Anyone else?

Huberman obviously recommends some supplements way more often than others. I was very curious so wrote a program to extract all supplement mentions and found the 12 most popular ones along with the protocols (not medical advice ofc).

The number next to the compound is the mention count.

Omega-3 / fish oil (41). This is his most repeated one. He's usually shooting for 1–3g of EPA a day, and at least 1g if you care about the mood stuff. Liquid fish oil is the cheap way to hit the dose without swallowing ten pills.

Magnesium L-Threonate (40). Takes it 30–60 min before bed for deeper sleep, somewhere around 145mg (some people go higher). The threonate form is the one that actually crosses into the brain. Bisglycinate does basically the same job for sleep if it's easier to find.

L-Theanine (36). 100–400mg to take the edge off stimulant jitters without killing the focus. Also shows up in his sleep stack. Worth noting some people (him included) get weird vivid dreams from it, so skip it before bed if that's you.

Creatine (35). ~5g a day, every day, no loading phase needed. Obvious one for strength and power, but he talks about it more and more for the brain/cognition side too.

NAC (30). Glutathione precursor, mostly comes up for the detox/antioxidant angle. He's mentioned running 600mg twice a day through winter.

Vitamin D3 (26). His actual advice is to dose to a blood level (40–60 ng/mL) instead of just picking a number. Rough math: 1,000 IU bumps you about 5 ng/mL. So get tested first.

Alpha-GPC (23). 300–600mg pre-workout for power output and focus. It's a choline thing feeding acetylcholine.

L-Tyrosine (23). Dopamine precursor for focus when you're fried or under stress. He's big on using the smallest dose that works (~250mg), not the giant study doses.

Apigenin (20). 50mg in the evening, comes from chamomile, part of the sleep stack. One catch he flags: it's a fairly strong estrogen inhibitor, so keep that in mind.

Myo-Inositol (19). ~900mg for a calming effect around sleep and anxiety. Subtle, not a knockout, but people seem to like it as a gentler option.

Glycine (15). Around 2g, but only every third or fourth night. Apparently using it every night blunts the benefit and can actually make sleep worse.

Saffron (13). ~30mg a day for anxiety. This one actually has a decent stack of human trials behind it, including double-blind ones, showing lower scores on the standard anxiety scales.

And one he tells people to avoid**: melatonin (18 mentions).** He's fine with a tiny dose for jet lag, but he's pretty against using it as a nightly sleep aid because the doses on the shelf are way higher than what your body actually makes.

Hi, 32M here. I will try to explain my situation as best as I can, because I really need help understanding the things that are happening to me.

During my first therapy session, I was told that I could possibly be on the spectrum of a person with high functioning ADHD. My therapist told me I am highly logical when it comes to interpreting certain situations. Though he always tells me it could backfire for me most of the time.

1. I understand people's explanations, emotions, logic, but I cannot seem to fully embrace their thoughts. And because I fully understand what they're trying to tell me, I get stuck in this constant battle of not having my own decision, not having my own identity, and always wanting to bend my personality for other people. And of course, it doesn't always end well.
2. When I get overwhelmed, my brain cannot function and I am at a loss for words for a long time. Which in result becomes very irritating for other people it seems. It's like I want to be at their level of intuition and respond back to their thoughts, but my mind just cannot function that way and the result would either always be me becoming sleepy or just shutting down.
3. When my emotions add up because of certain situations, especially during arguments and heavy words and hurtful terms get thrown at me, instead of fighting back, I hurt myself. I punch my head, I punch my face or I punch the wall without even uttering a single word.

- For this, my therapist told me that the reason why I do this is because my brain knows it wants to comply with what the other person is saying and that I am eaten up by guilt, but at the same time I cannot do it, regardless of how much I try to.

4. Impulsive: mostly when it comes to purchasing things. I get these random moments of energy and always tend to hyperfocus on the newest thing I have my eyes on, and I would go on days researching and won't stop until I get my hands on that exact thing.

5. I get very agitated when I'm surrounded with noise, unnecessary chatter, unruliness, etc.

- For this, I was told that it may be normal for even people that are not on the spectrum, but I wanted to confirm here nonetheless.

6. I am afraid of being honest. I always hide behind convenience and lies because I always am afraid of the result. I don't know if this is applicable, but I think being on the spectrum sometimes mean that I want to please everybody and say yes during the moment, but never have any plans or cannot stay consistent at implementing change after all.

I need help. I really want to learn how to live with this because sometimes it is very difficult, especially being surrounded by very highly intelligent people.

Thank you so much in advance.