Andrew Huberman· PhD
The NSAIDs are anti-inflammatory drugs. There's another, this is a technical term, they're anti-hyperalgesic drugs. And so one of the things that happens after an injury is that we get sensitization of the area that's injured. And it's a beautiful thing, because it sends a message to us to protect it. What the NSAIDs do is they reduce some of that sensitization out in the periphery and then back in the spinal cord and in the brain. But they don't actually-- so for instance, I was going to say try this at home, but probably not. You can in a normal situation hit your hand with a fork. Measure the amount of pain. Now go take an NSAID like ibuprofen. If you hit your hand with that same fork, there'll be no difference.