Andrew Huberman· PhD
I usually wake up and try to get in the sun as soon as I possibly can and hope to spend-- hope to spend about an hour.
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I usually wake up and try to get in the sun as soon as I possibly can and hope to spend-- hope to spend about an hour.
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one of the things that Rick does is when he wakes up in the morning he makes it a point to he takes walks he gets Sunshine he hydrates he does all of those things but to try and make the transition between sleep and wakefulness to be rather gradual almost to allow some of the the components of sleep to um kind of bleed into the morning and then allow wakefulness to to come about
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