Andrew Huberman· PhD
Im also intrigued by some of the preliminary data on nicotine and longer term cognitive enhancement but it’s still early days for that.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Im also intrigued by some of the preliminary data on nicotine and longer term cognitive enhancement but it’s still early days for that.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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by the way it can raise blood pressure it's certainly smoking vaping dipping or snuffing not good bad don't do it but there is some interest in the use of nicotine as a cognitive enhancer
but there is some interest in the use of nicotine as a cognitive enhancer
But I think if you're going to explore chemistry for — changing your your brain state, which is what it's all about, — that you want to be really careful about what you do with that enhanced brain state.
But I'm very intrigued by the idea of this substance nicotine when it's not smoked, vaped, you know, dipped or snuffed that it might actually be neuroprotective.
Older people might benefit from it because of the cognitive enhancement, but that's a whole other story.