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For anorexia, teach the individual what leads up to the habit, including awareness of internal state cues such as quickening heart rate and hyper-focused attention, so they can notice and intervene before the reflexive food-avoidance habit executes.

For anorexia, involve the family in treatment so they understand the biology and psychology, stop condemning the individual, and support habit change and neuroplasticity over time.

Do not explore MDMA, psilocybin, or ibogaine for eating disorders outside properly trained medical supervision and completed clinical trials; he emphasizes legality, safety, and the need for more data.

He does not recommend cheat days involving eating whatever you want in whatever volumes.

Avoid self-induced vomiting and laxative use for purging, as these practices can harm the digestive tract mucosal lining and gut microbiome.

Serotonergic drug mentioned as often effective in bulimia; also referenced in the broader class of serotonergic drugs used with limited success for anorexia. Prozac is the brand name; Paxil and Zoloft were mentioned as related serotonergic drugs.

Butter may be consumed in small quantities if blood lipid profiles are good, based on individual tolerance rather than as a universal recommendation.

Try not to approach a meal or sit down to eat while anxious.

Do not diagnose yourself or others based on discussed symptoms; ADHD diagnosis should be carried out by a psychiatrist, physician, or very well-trained clinical psychologist.

Use an elimination diet to identify and remove foods that worsen ADHD symptoms, including foods that trigger allergies or mild allergies; symptom-exacerbating foods can change over time. Evidence discussed mainly in children, with some controversy around implementation, and in some cases symptoms may improve enough to reduce medication use.

Explore whether children already have allergies to foods they consume, since eliminating foods to which they are allergic may improve symptoms.

Use open monitoring rather than over-focusing; access it by consciously dilating your gaze into panoramic vision to improve detection of multiple targets and reduce attentional blinks. Works immediately and can be practiced whether or not you have ADHD.

Before visual focus training or other sit-still tasks, do physical movements or allow recess-like activity to reduce the urge to move and improve subsequent ability to sit still and focus.

Use fidget toys or repetitive movement objects to help children maintain focus by engaging physical activity and channeling underlying nervous system activity.

A rubber band attached to the desk that a child can pull or snap against the desk to provide physical activity that enhances mental focus.

Use subtle movements such as tapping your foot, bouncing your knee, pacing, nodding your head, or gesticulating to shuttle premotor activity elsewhere in the body and improve steadiness, focus, and control, including during surgery or public speaking.

10 mg twice daily; a racetam-like compound that taps into the cholinergic system similarly to alpha-GPC and may improve cognitive capacity.

Mentioned as part of the racetam class showing some promise for focus and cognitive issues, especially after concussion or vascular injury; consult a doctor.

When using TMS for ADHD, combine stimulation with a focused learning task to teach the brain to learn while circuits are being engaged.

Reduce constant switching between streams of information, especially on smartphones, because it diminishes capacity for meaningful work. For adolescents, keep smartphone use under 60 minutes per day; for adults, about two hours per day or less is suggested as the upper limit before severe attentional deficits are likely.

Be judicious about entering psychedelic states because attention can become so narrowed that basic safety can be compromised.

Recommended in psychedelic sessions to help people go further inward and into the experience; specifically referred to as eye shades rather than blindfolds.

Wait about 1–2 weeks before making major decisions after a psychedelic experience, including ending or starting a relationship, quitting your job, or making impulsive commitments like getting a puppy.

Be skeptical of microdosing claims because controlled studies have not shown increases in creativity, enhancement of cognition, or sustained mood improvement.

Avoid repeated psychedelic use such as twice a week for years; host warns this pattern may carry cumulative heart valve risk because many psychedelics, including MDMA, have serotonin 2B agonist effects linked to valvulopathy.

Host says he is drinking very strong mate during the conversation; organic mention, not sponsor language.

Use journaling, appreciation, or deliberate focus on enjoyable aspects of an activity to increase its rewarding properties and the dopamine associated with it. He gives exercise as an example: if you dislike it, identify some aspect you genuinely enjoy.

Do not rely on rewards given after hard work to make exercise, studying, or other effortful activities more appealing. Post-effort rewards may reduce the activity’s own dopamine response and weaken future motivation.

If using pre-workout drinks or coffee before exercise, do so only occasionally rather than habitually, because doing it too often can reduce overall dopamine release capacity, motivation, drive, and energy.

For dopamine reset/replenishment from overstimulating digital behaviors, do a complete 30-day abstinence from phone use, video games, and social media; his example notes the first 14 days were especially difficult.