Andrew Huberman· PhD
It's because this reward pathway and the fact that it's related to a sense of the future seems to liberate entire systems within the body that make inflammatory cytokines go down, and anti-inflammatory cytokines go up.
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It's because this reward pathway and the fact that it's related to a sense of the future seems to liberate entire systems within the body that make inflammatory cytokines go down, and anti-inflammatory cytokines go up.
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It's because this reward pathway, and the fact that it's related to a sense of the future, seems to liberate entire systems within the body that make inflammatory cytokines go down, and anti-inflammatory cytokines go up, exactly as was demonstrated in the beautiful PNAS study where breathing, cyclic hyperventilation, was used to increase epinephrine, increase norepinephrine, and to augment the catecholamine system.