Andrew Huberman· PhD
Once you get this aspect of life right, everything related to mental and physical health, productivity and longevity just starts to fall into place.
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.
Once you get this aspect of life right, everything related to mental and physical health, productivity and longevity just starts to fall into place.
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Practices which adjust stress down in the afternoon in those people combating cancer actually predicted survivability.
And a flattening of the cortisol curve has been shown in other studies to actually predict lower lifespan, certainly in response to health challenges like cancer.
In other words, the bigger the peak, the more rapid the decline in cortisol into the afternoon and the lower it stayed at night, the longer people lived and the more successful people were in overcoming diseases such as cancer.
You want to keep cortisol low as much as you can.