Essentials: Developing a Rational Approach to Supplementation for Health & Performance

Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials. Where we revisit past episodes. for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today we're discussing supplements, or more specifically, a rational guide to supplementation. During today's episode, I'm going to give you a number of different very specific questions that you can answer.

In order to decide whether or not you should be taking any so called supplements Or not. As we head into today's conversation, I want to emphasize something very important. not just as it relates to supplements, but as it relates to all aspects of mental health, physical health, and performance. And that is I take the stance that behavioral tools, that is, specific actions that we take and specific actions that we avoid.

form the foundation of mental health, physical health, and performance. So things like viewing morning sunlight and exercise are behavioral tools. They don't require the ingestion of anything. Second to that, I would say the next layer is in fact nutrition. No amount of supplementation or non prescription compounds or prescription compounds for that matter can ever compensate for poor nutrition, at least not for very long. Then on top of that, I would place what is typically called supplementation, although today I'm trying to expand that word to include not just things that compensate for

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