Dr. Andrew Huberman

These are actually pretty cool in the sense that if you just take 60 seconds and do, you know, like a near all out, you know, run up the stairs, but be careful, or jumping jacks for a minute as fast as you can.

That raises heart rate in a way and

adjust your physiology in a way that really does carry over to better performance, including even things like VO2 max in other endeavors.

So it's probably not the case that that's all you should do, but even small bouts of exercise can be very, very valuable.

So that's reassuring.

And then I am a huge fan of non-sleep deep rest, aka yoga nidra, which means yoga sleep, which is just lying there.

as we talked about before, but it's slightly different than what we were talking about for creativity.

Lying there and deliberately inducing, using your mind to deeply relax the different muscles of your body.

Stay calm, long exhale breathing, this kind of thing.

There's a 10-minute NSDR with my voice on YouTube that you can simply find and at zero cost.

There are many with other voices, female voices, et cetera, that you can find on YouTube as well.

And...

If you don't like those, we're soon to release on our Hebrew and Lab Clips channel a number of different meditations and NSDRs, again, all zero cost of 10 minute, 20 minute, 30 minute.

I would say that for limiting stress, improving sleep, and restoring mental and physical vigor, NSDR is perhaps the best tool out there.

And again, I didn't create it.

I simply took Yoga Nidra.

I started calling it NSDR.

And by the way, I was aware that I was going to upset some people when I did that.

I was not trying to appropriate anything, I promise.

The problem was I would talk about yoga nidra and studies of yoga nidra showing that it replenishes dopamine and the basal ganglia can restore mental and physical vigor.