Andrew Huberman· PhD
Some of you might immediately say, "Well, wait, what about hormesis? What about this phenomenon where if we regularly ingest a toxin, it makes us stronger?" In other words, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Yeah, there's, you know, some reason to believe that might be beneficial in terms of some forms of cellular resilience maybe, maybe. No, sorry. It doesn't work that way. There are processes of hormesis in which, for instance, exposing yourself safely through increases in adrenaline through, you know, ice baths or other things that increase adrenaline can raise your so-called stress threshold, but here, we're talking about cellular stress and damage to cells.