Andrew Huberman· PhD
the brain and body somehow came to expect that receiving an injection leads to increases in growth hormone and cortisol
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.
the brain and body somehow came to expect that receiving an injection leads to increases in growth hormone and cortisol
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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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but here we have a case where a drug that increases certain hormones and decreases other hormones simply by virtue of the fact that it was injected into somebody leads to a case where subsequent injections at least in the short run lead to the exact same hormone changes simply because in the mind and or body of these individuals injection comes to equal increase in growth hormone decrease in cortisol independent of what's being injected