Andrew Huberman· PhD
the thing I am well aware of now is all the peptide use MH right peptides are really really big and they're in use in the general population more and more and it'll be interesting to see how those impact sport I'm not aware of any athletes at least not I've come to me saying they take these peptides but um it's going to be interesting to see how that shapes sport I think people overestimate how much these drugs contribute to success at the elite level yeah I I because I mean what you're talking about with these athletes you work with are just the you know hundreds and hundreds of hours of work to get a 1% Improvement in some Metric or 0.1% 0.1% it's just you know I think people really overestimate it sure if people just want to be big with a bunch of acne yeah you can do that big acne sterile like there you know they you can get that in the locker room almost any gym nowadays um please don't do it um but to get you know half a second off your time it's no drug thousands thousands of hours of work it is sleeping really well it's eating really well he's having a good proper life you know it's there's no shortcut to that there really isn't you've got to get really really fast to be fast and this is even back in the drug era you didn't take drugs to be fast you got fast first and then you took drugs and that made you faster that's how people did it you don't take drugs to get fast you don't go for 102 to 10 flat or 103 to 10 flat or 102 to 98 doesn't happen that way so it's now it's it's for me it's like the most important one for me is are you training well is it organized properly are you sleeping well are you eating well are you taking whatever the the good clean supplements that you can take and we take very very few by the way and do you have a good social life and then all of these things come together and interact in a way that feeds your purpose of run fast you know that's that's it honestly it's as I said with with Andre I spoke I started working with Andre in 2015 he could not squat his body weight basically you know three Olympic medals 18 months after starting the sport it can be done which shows yeah okay this is being done that's awesome and it it points to the fact that more muscle isn't always the solution no the things that keep coming to mind are the ability to put away uh self-consciousness to use the body to express to find oneself yeah um and it's so interesting because I thought we were going to sit down and talk about running yeah me too um but I think these are much larger and if I may uh more important themes although people should definitely Skip and stride and uh dly metrics I I'd be interested to hear your thoughts asked you this question earlier like do you feel like there is a single metric that is a better determinant for overall health or Vitality than the ability to maximally Sprint now not be fast but to go out and actually Sprint maximally think about all of the things that come along with the ride with that think about V2 Max like VO2 max in and of itself isn't important it's a proxy for all of these other things that are important the ability to Sprint maximally isn't necessarily important but it's a proxy for everything else I can't think of anything else and you're talking