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#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind

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Neuroplasticity - Is There a Drug That's Safe?

I think it's being engaged in a physical practice while enhancing pharmacology. It has to be done safely. This is full of open questions. A pill that's safe that increases nicotinic transmission. I know a number of people that chew nicker at. Maybe they have a Nobel Prize winning colleague at Columbia who chews like six pieces of nicker at and a half hour conversation with him. He started doing that as a replacement for smoking because smoking is nicotine, nicotinic stimulation of the colonergic system. Smokers have long known that it increases focus and attention and learning. Just the lung cancer thing is a barrier.

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