Andrew Huberman· PhD
Put simply you can remember things better if you increase your alertness, AKA your level of epinephrine and cortisol after, immediately after something that you want to learn.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Put simply you can remember things better if you increase your alertness, AKA your level of epinephrine and cortisol after, immediately after something that you want to learn.
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we're going to get into some fun topics related to learning and memory and how you can leverage cortisol and epinephrine in particular, in order to learn faster.
The time to do that is toward the end or immediately after the learning, because this mechanism is not simply devoted to negative events like a car crash or a trauma, it works to make sure that the hippocampus that encodes memories as part of the memory and coding mechanisms is primed.
Literally you need to deploy adrenaline into your system after you have made the attempt to learn some information.
Whereas acute sharp increases in adrenaline and cortisol actually can enhance learning and indeed can enhance the immune system.