Developing a Rational Approach to Supplementation for Health & Performance
Huberman Lab
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 121 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Uberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Andrew Uberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and |
| 0:12.4 | Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today we are discussing supplements. We're more specifically a rational guide to supplementation. |
| 0:20.2 | Now to be forthright, I want to tell you that I am not a fan of the word supplements because it stems from this idea that all supplements are somehow |
| 0:27.8 | food supplements or designed to compensate for what one could otherwise get from food. |
| 0:33.3 | And that's simply not the case. Many supplements are compounds that are extremely efficacious. |
| 0:39.3 | For instance, for enhancing sleep or for enhancing hormone function or for enhancing focus. |
| 0:45.1 | And many of those compounds are simply not found in food or are not found in enough abundance in food to have the desired effect. |
| 0:52.8 | Now that raises the issue as to whether or not these compounds are good to take, safe to take, and whether or not they are actually beneficial for us. |
| 1:00.7 | And the short answer is that like everything else, supplements can either be good for us or dangerous for us, depending on dosage, sourcing, etc. |
| 1:08.4 | But more importantly, we need to think about supplements and a rational guide to supplementation as taking into account a number of different factors. |
| 1:15.8 | And we need to set aside the idea that all non-prescription compounds that fall under this umbrella term supplements are simply things that could be extracted from food. |
| 1:25.6 | But most people don't either ingest enough of those foods or pay a nut for tension to their diet in order to tame them. |
| 1:33.1 | In fact, during today's episode, I'm going to give you a number of different very specific questions that you can answer. |
| 1:38.7 | In order to decide whether or not you should be taking any so-called supplements or not. |
| 1:43.7 | And whether or not you should be taking one type of supplement or another type of supplement more or less than the other. |
| 1:48.8 | I'm also going to discuss safety, of course. |
| 1:51.3 | And I will discuss cost because obviously monetary cost is a serious consideration for most, if not everybody, considering the use of supplements. |
| 1:59.9 | During today's episode, I will also discuss which specific supplements are optimal for achieving specific endpoints, such as improved sleep, such as improved focus, and such as improved hormone function, among other things. |
| 2:12.0 | I plan to cover the full range of what it referred to as supplements, including so-called foundational supplements that are designed to act as a sort of insurance policy against any deficiencies that might exist within your diet. |
| 2:23.5 | All the way up to very targeted outcome supplements and compounds. |
| 2:27.8 | That is, compounds that are non-prescription that are designed to achieve very specific endpoints, such as enhanced focus over the next four to six hours of physical work or mental work, so on and so forth. |
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