In this episode 14 protocols
▶ 9:39 Near-Far Viewing Exercises Behaviors “The two protocols that I just want to remind everybody of are the protocol of near-far viewing that all of us, regardless of age, should probably spend about five minutes, three times a week, doing some near-far viewing exercises. So that would be bringing a pen or pencil up, close to the point where you're about to cross your eyes, but you don't cross your eyes, and then out at some distance, and then look beyond that pen or other object that you're using off as far as you can into the distance.” ▷ 10:28 Outdoor Time for Myopia Prevention Behaviors “incredible study that shows us that, that two hours a day outside, even if you're doing other things while you're outside, can help offset myopia and nearsightedness.” ▷ 12:13 Lutein Supplements “So lutein for vision, leucine for muscles and muscle growth and strength, et cetera.” ▷ 32:39 Nasal Breathing During Focused Work Behaviors “You could imagine, and I think this would be beneficial for most people, to focus on nasal breathing, while doing any kind of focused work that doesn't require that you speak or eat or ingest something. There is a separate paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience that showed that indeed, if subjects, human subjects, are restricted to breathing through their nose, they learn better than if they have the option of breathing through their mouth or a combination of their nose and mouth.” ▷ 33:27 More Intense Inhales for Alertness Behaviors “If you're having a hard time staying awake and alert, you're having a hard time remembering information, you feel like you have a kind of attention deficit, non-clinical, of course, nasal breathing ought to help. Extending or making your inhales more intense ought to help.” ▷ 34:02 Olfactory Training Through Repeated Sniffing and Smelling Behaviors “It turns out that simply sniffing nothing... doing a series of inhales, and of course, each one is followed by an exhale, 10 or 15 times, and then smelling an object like an orange or another item of food... will lead to an increase in your ability to perceive those odors.” ▷ 35:44 Smelling Salts Tools “There are other ways to wake up your brain more as well. For instance, the use of smelling salts. I'm not recommending that you do this necessarily, but there are excellent peer-reviewed data showing that indeed, if you use smelling salts, which are mostly of the sort that include ammonia... [they] wakes up the brain and body in a major way.” ▷ 41:16 Active Taste Training Behaviors “You sometimes hear this as kind of a mindfulness practice, like, ooh, really smell the food, really taste the food... but you actually can increase the sensitivity of your olfactory and your taste system by doing this.” ▷ 57:45 Peppermint Scent Diet “There are good data on peppermint and the smell of peppermint. Minty type scents, whether you like them or not, will increase attention and they can create the same sort of arousal response, although not as intensely or as dramatically as ammonia salts can, for instance.” ▷ 58:04 Avoid Sniffing Real Ammonia Behaviors “By the way, please don't go sniff real ammonia. You could actually damage your olfactory epithelium if you do that too close to the ammonia. If you're going to use smelling salts, be sure you work with someone or you know what you're getting and how you're using this.” ▷ 58:10 Be Careful With Smelling Salts Behaviors “If you're going to use smelling salts, be sure you work with someone or you know what you're getting and how you're using this. You can damage your olfactory pathway in ways that are pretty severe. You can also damage your vision.” ▷ 1:12:39 Fermented Foods Diet “Fermented things, while certainly some fermented foods like sauerkraut and kimchi and things of that sort can be very healthy for us and are very healthy in reducing inflammation. There are great data on that.” ▷ 1:18:29 Avoid Very Hot Foods or Beverages That Burn the Tongue Behaviors “If you've ever eaten something that's too hot, not spicy hot, but too hot, you burn your tongue, you burn receptors. It takes about a week to recover those receptors.” ▷ 1:40:13 Miracle Berry Diet “One time someone brought what's called Miracle Berry. Okay, so this isn't some psychedelic plant medicine thing. Miracle Berry you can purchase online.”