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Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools

Huberman Lab

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Chronic Stress/Epinephrine/Adrenaline Detrimental to Learning

Work from mgaw and cahill and others has shown that it's not the absolute amount of a drenlin that you release in your brain and body that matters for enhancing memory; it's the amount of drenlin that you release relative to the amount of adrenlin that was in your system just prior, in particular, in the hour or two pri./nAcute, right sharp increases in a drenelin and cartisal actually can enhance learning and indeed can enhance the immune system./nIf you really want a leverage information, you might consider getting your brain and body into a very calm and yet alert state, so high attentional state that will allow you to focus on what it is that you're trying to learn./nRemaining calm throughout that time, and then afterwards, spiking a drenelin, and allowing a drenelin to have these incredible effects on reducing the number of repetitions required to learn.

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