Andrew Huberman· PhD
So no nootropic allows you to bypass the need for sleep in deep rest. That's important to understand.
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So no nootropic allows you to bypass the need for sleep in deep rest. That's important to understand.
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No nootropic allows you to bypass the need for sleep and deep rest. That's important to understand.
And then you would want to have some sort of off switch because anything that's going to really stimulate your alertness that then provides a crash, that crash is not a crash into the deep, kind of restful slumber that you would want for learning. It's a crash into the kind of-- let's just call it lopsided sleep, meaning it's deep sleep. But it lacks certain spindles and other elements of the physiology-- sleep spindles that really engage the learning process and the reconfiguration of synapses.