Dr. Rhonda Patrick

By the way, I want to tell you that taking exogenous ketones, if you are fasting, it's going to stop you from actually –

using more fat and basically losing that fat because exogenous ketones are a signal to your liver that there's enough energy there.

You flood your system with this BHB, this beta-hydroxybutyrate.

And so if you're wanting to lose weight, if you're fasting to lose weight, the exogenous ketones are not going to help you, but they will help you be more cognitively

aware.

So that's another thing to do.

I would say another little protocol or hack that I use to lower my anxiety in high stress situations.

Another one would be cold exposure.

So deliberate cold exposure is also something that for one, it's hard.

Like no one wants to go sit in a 49 degree Fahrenheit cold water bath for two minutes.

I mean, it's very hard.

It's uncomfortable.

So you're getting that same effect that you get from doing hard exercise where you're getting the hard thing done.

That way everything else is easier.

But the other thing that it does is it increases norepinephrine and to some degree dopamine, but particularly norepinephrine.

That is both a hormone and a neurotransmitter that helps with focus and attention.

It helps kind of lower some of that background anxiety.

And so that's another thing that people can use.

And I used to do a lot of,

cold showers before I would go on a podcast or something.