Andrew Huberman· PhD
It acts on the orexin system, which is actually a peptide that we talked about in the episode on hunger, because it regulates hunger and appetite, and it regulates sleepiness and feelings of sleepiness.
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.
It acts on the orexin system, which is actually a peptide that we talked about in the episode on hunger, because it regulates hunger and appetite, and it regulates sleepiness and feelings of sleepiness.
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works on the orexin the hyperr orexin system right so boosting activity but not working like all our stimulant alerting drugs which are working on primarily norepinephrine systems so it was called the non-stimulant stimulant