Andrew Huberman· PhD
For me, heat is still a stressor. And if it's managed incorrectly, you can have detrimental responses rather than beneficial responses.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
For me, heat is still a stressor. And if it's managed incorrectly, you can have detrimental responses rather than beneficial responses.
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I think that when it comes to the we're stressing our body — this kind of goes back to this this lady's question as well I mean heat stress is a stress right I mean hypothermia is a real thing like you can get damage from too much heat so
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