Andrew Huberman· PhD
yes well the question is how do you avoid getting sick in terms of uh infectious diseases and as it turns out the answer to that is is actually the same in terms of avoiding getting sick for anything and it sort of goes to the pillars as you call it in my mind there's a there's actually a physician that I know very well just outside of uh Stanford actually in a place called wear wear University Dr Neil nedley and he's actually coined this this pneumonic called New Start um and and each of those letters to me in my mind is something that I go to when I want to improve health uh in in people in general so the and starts for nutrition and we can talk about nutrition and what that does to the human body obviously you know as natural as possible staying away from processed foods that's something there um exercise is e and uh when I'm talking about exercise I'm talking about the understanding that we have regarding exercise not to build muscle necessarily be stronger I'm talking about exercise in terms of health and that has more of a a j hook type of of picture what I mean by J hook is if you're not doing any exercise you're going to have higher levels of inflammation as soon as you start to do some exercise even mild to moderate exercise the amount of inflammation your body starts to come down but as you start to do more and more exercise you do have to be careful in terms of your General Health this is exactly what happens with athletes um they have to be very careful that when they're doing that type of elite athletic exercise that they're not sick on the day of performance and so that that's an issue so I'm referring to just you know mild to moderate exercise is good um the next one would be W water so this is something that's really interesting obviously it seems pretty you know obvious but not only the use of internal water but external water so in that area we can talk about sauna cold plunge things of that nature that can actually help with our immune system that's a whole interesting area of discussion it involves the innate immune system it involves interferon there's a lot of history and data that goes back over hundred years on how that's been used start St so s is sunlight I've been a real proponent of getting people outside into the Sun and we can talk a lot about that there's a lot of