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Recast: Understand How Your Brain Works with Dr. Andrew Huberman #338

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How to Avoid Looking at Your Phone in the Dark

If you're waking up in the middle of the night and you're looking at your phone, you are activating a pro-depressive circuit. The area of the brain that it activates to cause these depressive like symptoms also has a direct connection to the pancreas. Getting some light early in the day is key to every aspect of mental and physical health. It takes a couple of weeks just like good nutrition. You can go lean overnight but after a few weeks, you start to notice the difference.

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