You've spent your career studying the brain.

What is one thing that happens in your own brain that still surprises you?

I think that so much of our reality is us having a hallucination about the data that is being pulled in,

and then we create this interpretation of the world that is personal and may not be exactly what other people

are thinking or feeling or seeing. And that still shocks me. Creatines spent decades being a

gym bro supplement. So I consider myself a Jimbrough currently. Were you ever a Jimbrough?

Yeah. The first study that I ever took part in was in the mid-1990s, and we were looking at

creatine on exercise performance, and I took it for 20 years with that exclusive focus

in mind.

But my perspective has changed.

Finish this sentence in two sentences or less.

Most people think creatine is for blank, but it's actually for blank.

Most people think that creatine is for exercise performance, but it's really for energy support.

Nice.

You study sleep deprivation and decision making, so what is the worst decision you've personally made on bad sleep?

So here's the thing.

You tend to not realize you're making a bad decision when you're in the throes of sleep deprivation.

Only in hindsight can you look back and perhaps notice that you made a decision

that you would have not made if you had full sleep. Yeah, in hindsight, once you've had a great

sleep, you're like, yeah, maybe I shouldn't have, you know, held my horn on the road as long as I did.

Hello, my friends.

Welcome to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie.

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