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Dr. Craig Koniver

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Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

And we were using 5,000 micrograms a day, sometimes intravenously, getting great results, very safe, had no issues with it. But unfortunately, it's off the table.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Yeah, it made the cut.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Yeah, it made the cut.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Yeah, it made the cut.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

That's right. We've used a lot of Cerebral Lysine. I actually have a clinic that's open in London. We actually did use it. We've used it a lot more over there than over here. So you have a U.S. clinic and a U.K. clinic. We have one based in London and one in Charleston, yeah. Okay. And I think cerebral isin has been used for decades in the setting of post-stroke, post-traumatic brain injury.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

That's right. We've used a lot of Cerebral Lysine. I actually have a clinic that's open in London. We actually did use it. We've used it a lot more over there than over here. So you have a U.S. clinic and a U.K. clinic. We have one based in London and one in Charleston, yeah. Okay. And I think cerebral isin has been used for decades in the setting of post-stroke, post-traumatic brain injury.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

That's right. We've used a lot of Cerebral Lysine. I actually have a clinic that's open in London. We actually did use it. We've used it a lot more over there than over here. So you have a U.S. clinic and a U.K. clinic. We have one based in London and one in Charleston, yeah. Okay. And I think cerebral isin has been used for decades in the setting of post-stroke, post-traumatic brain injury.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

The trouble with it, again, I've observed with people They get cerebral isin. We're talking about IV. You can also use it sub-Q. Is they will have a day or two where they feel really down and out. Like it's like their mood shifts to like this dark place. Scary. Yeah. And they come out of it. But most people don't like that feeling. And so we just, we stopped using it mostly. Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

The trouble with it, again, I've observed with people They get cerebral isin. We're talking about IV. You can also use it sub-Q. Is they will have a day or two where they feel really down and out. Like it's like their mood shifts to like this dark place. Scary. Yeah. And they come out of it. But most people don't like that feeling. And so we just, we stopped using it mostly. Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

The trouble with it, again, I've observed with people They get cerebral isin. We're talking about IV. You can also use it sub-Q. Is they will have a day or two where they feel really down and out. Like it's like their mood shifts to like this dark place. Scary. Yeah. And they come out of it. But most people don't like that feeling. And so we just, we stopped using it mostly. Yeah.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Yeah. And I think, right. And I think, I think collectively it increases BDNF levels, right? Like there was dihexa too. You know, if you're familiar with dihexa, that's another one that was removed by the FDA. Supposedly the most potent way to increase, you know, brain-derived nootrophic factor is kind of the juice the neurons live in again, oversimplification. that's gone.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Yeah. And I think, right. And I think, I think collectively it increases BDNF levels, right? Like there was dihexa too. You know, if you're familiar with dihexa, that's another one that was removed by the FDA. Supposedly the most potent way to increase, you know, brain-derived nootrophic factor is kind of the juice the neurons live in again, oversimplification. that's gone.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Yeah. And I think, right. And I think, I think collectively it increases BDNF levels, right? Like there was dihexa too. You know, if you're familiar with dihexa, that's another one that was removed by the FDA. Supposedly the most potent way to increase, you know, brain-derived nootrophic factor is kind of the juice the neurons live in again, oversimplification. that's gone.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

But I think cerebral isin did the same thing. Interesting.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

But I think cerebral isin did the same thing. Interesting.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

But I think cerebral isin did the same thing. Interesting.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

It does for sure. Not permanently. Not permanently. It's actually the first... pharmaceutical ever prescribed in this country in the late 1800 was methylene blue. Goodness. Here. So it sounds like really renegade, but it's not. Got it. Yep. But it's it's gained favor in the last five years.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

It does for sure. Not permanently. Not permanently. It's actually the first... pharmaceutical ever prescribed in this country in the late 1800 was methylene blue. Goodness. Here. So it sounds like really renegade, but it's not. Got it. Yep. But it's it's gained favor in the last five years.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

It does for sure. Not permanently. Not permanently. It's actually the first... pharmaceutical ever prescribed in this country in the late 1800 was methylene blue. Goodness. Here. So it sounds like really renegade, but it's not. Got it. Yep. But it's it's gained favor in the last five years.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

That's certainly when we learned about it, particularly, you know, I learned about it through this doctor who was telling me with COVID patients he was getting immediate, like within a day of stopping of COVID symptoms from using methylene blue. That's what like piqued my interest. Like, wow, that's incredible.