Andrew Huberman· PhD
If you feel like you’re getting pulled under and need to sleep, definitely sleep as that’s part of the immune response.
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If you feel like you’re getting pulled under and need to sleep, definitely sleep as that’s part of the immune response.
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If I'm feeling very, very, very sleepy, and sometimes depending on what kind of a bug you get, that can happen. I will just sleep. And that might be the best choice you have. If that means you kick the cold half a day earlier, then you just won in the aggregate.
I tend to be the guy who goes all right I'm feeling kind of under the weather should I train maybe not okay I'm going to take a hot shower and get in bed at 6 PM read and go to sleep
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