Andrew Huberman· PhD
it is important that you pay attention to hydration um even though as you sort of mentioned people tend to just kind of like roll their eyes around it because if you're in the middle it's fine but if you're anywhere past not even the extreme extremes but just that first standard deviation away um you're going to have problems and you might be thinking adrenal fatigue you might be thinking your Testo like you're going to think all these things and you simply just haven't actually dialed in your hydration yeah um I think people sometimes roll their eyes at the discussion of hydration because it just doesn't sound very sexy it's not like doesn't sound like a neurotransmitter or a hormone it sound like testosterone or estrogen or DHEA or um dopamine but it actually is all of those things it sits at a level beneath all of those but not beneath on a hierarchy beneath in in terms of a foundation it's actually the without proper electrolyte balance and hydration none of the cells of the body can function and then I think people also hear that oh you know we are 70% water and somehow like that statistic Alone um or that fact alone doesn't seem to uh stimulate any kind of action will take away it's like great you know uh like gravity also you know keeps us you know from jumping as high as we like you know what do I do and so I think um it's it's important that people understand that every cellular process in the body critically relies on having enough sodium magnesium pottassium around and the the way that it's concentrated in fluid water is really the way that you allow every cell in your body to function as well as it possibly could and respond to all the sorts of kind of quote unquote High Performance Tools that we're talking about