All protocols

Tablet form of caffeine can be used when pairing caffeine with another beverage; one example given was 125–150 mg with herbal tea to build a preference for the tea.

Use aquaria or fish tanks in workspaces if they make the environment aesthetically pleasant and happiness-promoting.

Use some portion of your income for prosocial spending; giving money to others or causes is associated with significantly greater happiness than personal spending.

Regularly seeing faces, especially in the morning and late afternoon, is described as positively impacting emotional wellbeing.

Brief unstructured interactions with a dog, even an unfamiliar dog, can reduce stress and increase positive affect. If you cannot own a dog, walk foster dogs or neighbors' dogs to gain the wellbeing benefits of interacting with dogs.

Engage in consensual, context-appropriate nonsexual tactile grooming behaviors to promote bonding and wellbeing. Examples include brushing or combing someone's hair, using a lint roller on them, haircuts or hair styling, manicure, pedicure, skincare, or massage. Human-to-animal allogrooming also applies: petting or brushing dogs and cats can increase oxytocin and bonding-related neurochemistry.

Use idle time to reset attentional resources after cognitively demanding effort.

Allow positive mind wandering as a way to reset the brain's ability to focus after demanding cognitive effort.

If a child has obesity, puberty is described as a particularly effective time to reset lifestyle and habits and improve body composition.

Avoid deliberate overeating to gain both muscle and fat; recommended indefinitely across the lifespan, especially during growth and puberty because excess body fat can accelerate puberty and limit height.

For overweight youth, changing body composition should be done under physician supervision; framed as recomposition or renormalization of the growth curve rather than aggressive dieting.

Recommended for everyone; supports getting outside, sunlight exposure, some natural heat and cold exposure, and moving more regularly.

Suggested as a way for men to better understand symptoms related to men's health and hormones.

Daily or more than once per day masturbation to ejaculation was described as hormonally detrimental due to prolactin increase and suppression of LH/FSH.

Use lower-intensity weight training from time to time so it can be done more often and still support collagen hypertrophy in tendons and ligaments, while also training very heavy periodically for lean body mass growth.

Mentioned as important, especially when in a caloric deficit.

Very low carbohydrate intake was mentioned as part of the pattern associated with very low free testosterone in overtrained, calorie-deficient individuals doing a lot of vigorous exercise.

Stop the workout before complete exhaustion to preserve energy and vigor for the rest of the day.

Mentioned as the garlic compound that can help decrease conversion of carnitine/choline to TMAO.

Suggested as potentially helping growth hormone release because most growth hormone is released during sleep.

Very tight clothing was mentioned as a lifestyle factor to change in fertility consultations.

Mentioned as a better way than nicotine to optimize nicotinic receptor activity.

Long periods seated on a bike seat, especially with pressure on the perineum, were described as concerning for pelvic floor, continence, and impotence.

Use proper lifting form during heavy leg work and Valsalva-based lifting. If there is weakness or pathology, pelvic floor physical therapy may be needed. Kegels were mentioned as one of many exercises that can help, but not sufficient alone and excessive contraction can be problematic. Casual exercise like walking and stretching can help return blood flow to the area.

Alcohol significantly increases aromatase; recommendation was not more than 3 to 4 standard drinks every two weeks.

General recommendation to eliminate trans fats, except for naturally occurring trans omega-3 fats from grass-fed or finished ruminants.

Recommended in limited amounts because they are calorie dense, unless someone is trying to increase calories.

Small amounts were described as probably okay, but not excessive amounts.

PSA monitoring was discussed as important, with age-dependent reference ranges and special caution if using finasteride or dutasteride because they can halve PSA.

Huberman reports turmeric crushed his DHT and vitality; framed as an anecdotal but strong personal avoidance.