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▶ Control Your Brain Chemistry for Focus, Motivation & Well-Being | Huberman Lab Essentials 11:35 “Well it turns out that regular ingestion of caffeine at safe and appropriate levels about 100 to 250 milligrams is going to increase the number of D2 and D3 dopamine receptors” ▷ Your Top Health Questions Answered 3:05 “You get your morning sunlight, you hydrate, you exercise, you maybe drink some caffeine. If you like to drink caffeine, get into your day, maybe even some stress, that's okay.” ▷ Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools | Huberman Lab Essentials 12:10 “If you're using those compounds in order to enhance learning and memory, well, then I encourage you to try and take them either late in the learning episode or immediately after the learning episode.” ▷ Essentials: Optimize Your Exercise Program with Science-Based Tools | Jeff Cavaliere 32:46 “For me it water and some form of caffeine... I do think it important to maintain a high level of output. So if your pre-worked nutrition requires a stimulant in order to help you do that... that is probably the most important factor of all of it.” ▷ The Most Effective Weight Training, Cardio & Nutrition for Women | Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple 1:34:05 “Caffeine before you train? Always.” ▷ How to Set & Achieve Goals | Huberman Lab Essentials 22:13 “And some people leverage this by using things like caffeine or taking things like L-tyrosine to increase dopamine.” ▷ Controlling Your Dopamine for Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction | Huberman Lab Essentials 15:39 “There's one exception which is caffeine because it does upregulate these D2D3 receptors. So it actually makes whatever dopamine is released by that activity more accessible or more functional within the biochemistry and the pathways of your brain and body.” ▷ How to Control Your Cortisol & Overcome Burnout 46:56 “This is where the recommendation that I've been making for some years now of delaying your caffeine by anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes comes about. You now know that caffeine for a habitual user is not going to increase your cortisol levels that much.” ▷ Control Your Vagus Nerve to Improve Mood, Alertness & Neuroplasticity 1:02:05 “Many of us most of us perhaps are used to using pharmacology like caffeine or other stimulants in order to try and wake up levels of alertness in the brain... And yes, you might augment this with something like caffeine, which will further increase levels of norepinephrine.” ▷ How to Build Endurance | Huberman Lab Essentials 36:02 “One are stimulants, so things like caffeine will definitely improve endurance work and power output.” ▷ Lose Fat With Science-Based Tools | Huberman Lab Essentials 25:31 “The bottom line is if you like caffeine and you can use it safely, ingesting somewhere between 100 and 400 milligrams of caffeine prior to exercise, somewhere between 30 to 40 minutes before exercise can be beneficial if we're talking about fat oxidation, burning more body fat.” ▷ How to Learn Skills Faster | Huberman Lab Essentials 27:45 “for physical learning it appears to be the opposite that if you are if caffeine is in your practice or if you decide to try Alpha GPC that you would want to do that before the training take it before the training use it its effect should extend into the training presumably throughout” ▷ Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse 1:39:11 “And the other half say, it's a stimulant. Lots of people are using it with these other stimulants, both full-blown stimulants and non-stimulant ADHD medications. And as long as you know it's part of the picture and you're trying to be constant with your dosage or aware of it, then fine. And maybe it helps you get away with the lower dose of the prescription.” ▷ How to Defeat Jet Lag, Shift Work & Sleeplessness | Huberman Lab Essentials 16:00 “That's where the use of things like caffeine, exercise, and sunlight can shift you.” ▷ Using Science to Optimize Sleep, Learning & Metabolism | Huberman Lab Essentials 20:27 “Most of them include some form of stimulant, caffeine. You can't just ingest more stimulant to be more focused.” ▷ Optimal Protocols for Studying & Learning 22:16 “Yes, the appropriate amount of caffeine for you that allows you to be alert, but not shaking and agitated can be very useful... if you're studying is going late into the night and you're drinking a lot of caffeine, be mindful that the sleep that you get after drinking that caffeine late into the day... those are not serving your learning well.” ▷ Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy | Dr. Peter Attia 2:22:47 “if ever someone were to design a supplement that would provide more energy all day long that wasn't caffeine, I'd probably look to that, but I ingest caffeine in the form of yerba mate and coffee.” ▷ AMA #17: Making Time for Fitness, Top Sleep Tools & Best Learning Strategies 17:33 “I do believe if you experience a crash in energy in the afternoon, delaying your caffeine by about 90 minutes or so after waking can be very beneficial. But for me, and I think for most people, if you're going to work out first thing in the morning and you like caffeine before a workout, drink caffeine first thing in the morning.” ▷ Science-Supported Tools to Accelerate Your Fitness Goals 1:28:21 “if I'm going to train early in the day, I do ingest water to hydrate as well as electrolytes and caffeine prior to training. And sometimes that means I'm drinking caffeine within 30 minutes or 60 minutes of waking.” ▷ AMA #8: Balancing Caffeine, Decision Fatigue & Social Isolation 8:53 “Most people can pretty well tolerate doses of caffeine anywhere from 100 milligrams to 300 milligrams. Depends on body weight and depends on your tolerance.” ▷ Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimal Nutrition & Supplementation for Fitness | Huberman Lab Guest Series 1:25:40 “The evidence is strong. It has a negogenic effect. You can take it at whatever dosage is reasonable for you. And of course there is a bit of a learning curve there such that, Obviously, the more you take it, the more you need to take, even though there's actually some recent evidence showing even folks who are acclimated to it will still see an ergogenic benefit, even though if they don't feel a big boost of it.” ▷ Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals | Huberman Lab 2:21:04 “if you're not using them consistently and you're having a rough day and all of a sudden you throw down 200 milligrams of caffeine it's going to change real fast. That's a strong performance enhancing effect.” ▷ Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimize Your Training Program for Fitness & Longevity | Huberman Lab Guest Series 1:34:50 “If you critically rely on caffeine in order to train... well, then it's pretty obvious where I'm going with this... I do restrict it until the time right up about 2 PM at the latest is really when I'm trying to drink caffeine.” ▷ How to Stop Headaches Using Science-Based Approaches 2:13:10 “you have to determine for yourself whether or not headaches are relieved or exacerbated by drinking caffeine... if you are somebody who ingests caffeine every day, and you do not ingest caffeine, you will indeed get a headache, and drinking caffeine will relieve that particular headache.” ▷ Developing a Rational Approach to Supplementation for Health & Performance | Huberman Lab Podcast 1:31:31 “The appropriate range in most cases is going to be one to three milligrams per kilogram of body weight taken 30 minutes or so before any kind of mental or physical endeavor.” ▷ The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation 1:19:55 “I would recommend not using stimulants such as caffeine prior to divergent thinking, but rather use stimulants if you do want to use stimulants such as caffeine, prior to convergent thinking. Turns out it's one to three milligrams per kilogram of body weight, by the way.” ▷ Using Caffeine to Optimize Mental & Physical Performance 45:51 “So for most people ingesting one to three milligrams of caffeine per kilogram of body weight is going to be the range in which caffeine can have positive effects without making us feel overly anxious... And that is to delay your caffeine intake to 90 to 120 minutes after waking up on most days.” ▷ The Science of Eating for Health, Fat Loss & Lean Muscle | Dr. Layne Norton 3:28:52 “The other most effective supplement out there is probably caffeine. I mean, like if you look at the research studies, caffeine produces very consistently improvements in performance.” ▷ Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration 48:01 “There is an immense amount of data supporting the idea that caffeine, provided it's consumed in the appropriate dosages, can improve mental performance and physical performance... The range is basically from 100 milligrams to 400 milligrams.” ▷ Tools for Setting & Achieving Goals | Dr. Emily Balcetis 1:07:10 “"But caffeine is a great motivator because of the internal sense of arousal, but it also narrows our visual window... caffeine, if that's within their practice and span of healthy behaviors, they could do that."” ▷ Optimize & Control Your Brain Chemistry to Improve Health & Performance 1:06:41 “Well, it turns out that regular ingestion of caffeine at safe and appropriate levels of about 100 to 250 milligrams is going to increase the number of D2 and D3 dopamine receptors... Better to push that caffeine intake out about 90 to 120 minutes after waking.” ▷ Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools 59:33 “If you're using those compounds in order to enhance learning and memory by taking them before, or during a learning episode, well, then I encourage you to try and take them either late in the learning episode or immediately after the learning episode.” ▷ Using Deliberate Cold Exposure for Health and Performance | Huberman Lab 1:26:01 “You can also do a combined protocol whereby you ingest caffeine 60 to 120 minutes before the deliberate cold exposure... in this case, it was 300 milligram dose of caffeine.” ▷ The Science of Setting & Achieving Goals 1:33:02 “"or in some cases, caffeine, which can increase the number of dopamine receptors that we have so that whatever dopamine we have floating around can be more effective in activating these motivational states."” ▷ Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction 1:20:01 “There's one exception, which is caffeine, because as I mentioned before, if you like caffeine, that actually could be a good thing for your dopamine system because it does upregulate these D2, D3 receptors.” ▷ How to Build Endurance in Your Brain & Body 1:58:16 “One are stimulants, so things like caffeine will definitely improve endurance work and power output. There's a little bit of evidence that caffeine intake can actually inhibit the function of the creatine system, but it's just one study” ▷ How to Lose Fat with Science-Based Tools 1:34:00 “If you like caffeine and you can use it safely, ingesting somewhere between 100 and 400 milligrams of caffeine, or between 30 to 40 minutes before exercise can be beneficial if we're talking about fat oxidation, burning more body fat.” ▷ How to Learn Skills Faster 11:25 “If you enjoy caffeine before your workouts and you're accustomed to caffeine, meaning you drink it three or five times or more a week, 100 to 300 milligrams is a typical daily dose of caffeine.” ▷ Supercharge Exercise Performance & Recovery with Cooling 1:12:50 “For somebody who drinks two or three or more cups of coffee a day or mate a day, so we're talking intake of anywhere from 100 to 400 milligrams of caffeine. What you want to do is you want to make sure that you would do that before exercise and probably not after exercise.” ▷ How Our Hormones Control Our Hunger, Eating & Satiety 1:22:45 “Caffeine has very reliably been shown to increase blood glucose just a little bit, okay?” ▷ How to Increase Motivation & Drive 1:09:10 “What they showed was that caffeine can increase dopamine release in the brain by about 30%... But what they also showed is that it has a protective effect on dopamine neurons.” ▷ Learn Faster Using Failures, Movement & Balance 1:20:40 “And there are of course things that will increase epinephrine, things like caffeine... I'm again, not suggesting people take any of these things.” ▷ Using Science to Optimize Sleep, Learning & Metabolism 57:55 “Most of them include some form of stimulant, caffeine... Stimulants will allow you to increase focus up to a particular point. If you have too little alertness in your system, you can't focus. Too much, however, you start to cliff and focus drifts.”