Dr. Andrew Huberman
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It's bad.
It is.
Is it worse for you than smoking?
Probably not.
Is it better?
Probably.
Slightly.
You know what's better?
Just not doing it.
But if you need to do it and you have to pick, you know, I suppose, you know, I'm not going to tell you what to do, but I think that vaping has allowed a good number of people to smoke less.
I'll acknowledge that.
And it's also clear it's not good for you.
So if you're going to do something that's bad for you, do a bunch of things to offset the thing that's bad for you.
That's always my advice.
But now in terms of nicotine itself, nicotine doesn't cause cancer.
The mode of consumption causes cancer.
That's important.
Nicotine binds to so-called nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
So these exist naturally in your body and on your muscles.
They're the way that actually your nerves control contraction of your muscles naturally.