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I thought just from the sun.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
Also, you had Peter Attia on here, right?
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
I had Attia on.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
Well, to give you some background, yeah, I guess cannabis is a bit like cultural cannabis.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
In Birmingham, where I grew up, we have a lot of Jamaicans.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
So, I mean, Jamaicans, they smoke cannabis, they make tea.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
It's just a cultural thing.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
It's normal for them, right?
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
So it was about, I had a couple of friends that their dads were Jamaican.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
So I was smoking it anyway, but I wasn't smoking it because I thought there was any particular health benefits.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
I was just smoking it and drinking alcohol, like hanging out.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
But...
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
My friends' dads who were Jamaican were like, oh, this protects against this and we drink tea for this and the women take it for menstrual pain.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
So I kind of heard that, but I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
And I would smoke occasionally when I was training.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
And when I went to live in Amsterdam for a little bit, as I said, I did a lot of reading, started reading about it.
Huberman Lab
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I started searching for studies and I found those massive, massive health benefits from THC and different cannabinoids.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
Some of it really counterintuitive, I guess, for people.
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
You had Peter Atiyah on here, right?
Huberman Lab
Build Muscle & Strength & Forge Your Life Path | Dorian Yates
So you asked Peter, I think, what about smoking cannabis?