Name: Daily Routines For Better Mental Health (with Andrew Huberman)
Uploaded: 2025-05-30T13:00:15.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Daily Routines For Better Mental Health (with Andrew Huberman)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Daily Routines For Better Mental Health (with Andrew Huberman)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-30. Transcript available.

- You know, I'm not super anti big pharma,
but I will say I am very pro self-directed healthcare.
This is why I'm, you know,
a big part of my initiative with the podcast is get people,
getting sunlight in their eyes in the evening,
get some sunlight in your eyes in the after,
in the morning, excuse me,
sunlight in your eyes in the morning.
You know, hydrate, exercise,
get on a normal circadian rhythm.
One of the most important things for mental health
is bright mornings and days, dark nights.
- And how do you get on that circadian rhythm, man?
That's something that I've struggled with.
I think my circadian rhythm is God,
it's a, I'm going to turn into a cicada.
- Well, we got to get you some of the red lens glasses.
I'm not doing a promotional here,
but getting the screens dim or wearing red lens glasses
in the evening to block the blue and green lights.
- But how to even set up a circadian rhythm?
- Bright light in the morning.
If you wake up and the sun's out, get outside,
take that brimmed hat off, take the sunglasses off,
look in the direction of the sun.
You don't have to force yourself to get five to 15 minutes
of sunlight, drink your coffee, get some exercise,
maybe even do like a hundred jumping jacks,
get your system going.
Very simple way to put this is early in the day,
you want movement, caffeine, hydration, sunlight.
If you can't get sunlight, you get bright light
from like an artificial light.
You can get a 10,000 lux light on Amazon for like a hundred bucks.
I have no relationship to any of those companies.
Get your morning kind of going.
You know, it's hard to be jockle willing, it's hard, but you got to kind of
force a little
bit of that on yourself.
And then in the afternoon, taper off the caffeine, dim the screens, lower your
heart rate, do some
long exhale breathing, you know, just take it down a notch.
And over about three days of doing that, what you'll find is I start to wake up
in anticipation
of the day, you're, you have this circadian rhythm that learns, well, I'm going
to be active in a few
hours and you start waking up in the morning at a particular time, that whole
phenomenon,
you set your clock for 7:00 AM and you wake up at 6:59, your brain is clocking
time.
- So does that mean you need to go to bed at like 8:00 PM for a week to get
your circadian
rhythm set or what's the truth there?
- Everyone's slightly different, different chronotypes.
So I do best, for instance, I know if I had total control going to bed sometime
between 10:00
and 11:00 PM and I wake up around 6:00 AM, okay, yes, I can go to bed at 9:00
and wake up
at 4:00, but I can't stick to that schedule very long.
My system just genetically is not wired for it.
Some people are real night owls.
They do best going to sleep at 2:00 AM and waking up at 10:00, they just feel
better.
Try a couple of different schedules for at least three days and then wherever
you feel
kind of most yourself, kind of like, you know, for me going to bed by 10:30 and
waking
up by six is kind of a natural antidepressant.
When I sleep in and go to bed late, I start feeling off.
Then I start abusing caffeine 'cause I love caffeine, love, love, love caffeine
and I'm
a big fan of caffeine.
- I like it, baby.
- But then I start abusing it.
I start taking too much and then, you know, and then it, you know, potentially
can drift
into other stimulants, you know, and then you're, then you're a mess.
But, you know, some people do really well going to bed at 8:30 and waking up at
4:00 AM.
But look, the world is not really wired for that.
If you're going to have any kind of social life.
- Like Mark Wahlberg or something, he's always, he's like, I wake up at 3:00.
- Well, him and Ari Emanuel from WME, like, yeah, those guys are like the 4:00
AM club.
They're like texting each other and like up, you know, I get texts from Ari
every once in a while.
He's like, man, up early, he's hyperbaric chamber, but he's, he, I mean, he's
got like 12 cylinders.
He's like, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. And listen, some people need more sleep
than others.
I do great on six or six and a half. When I sleep eight, I actually feel more
groggy.
- Ooh.
- So if you get your schedule right, you don't need quite as much sleep.
But before I came out here today, I did a half hour, what I call, it used to be
called yoga nidra.
It's non sleep deep rest, NSDR. You just do long exhale breathing.
You listen to a script, you relax your body. The data show you come out of that
with your dopamine level 60% higher than you went into it.
It replenishes your, your vigor.
- Yoga nidra?
- Yeah. Well, yoga nidra or NSDR, non sleep deep rest. And these are zero cost
tools, right?
- Got it. So how many milligrams of caffeine are you taking a day? Are you
usually taking a day?
- You ready for this?
- Yeah.
- All right. A normal cup of coffee would be about 200 milligrams of strong
coffee.
I consume about 800 milligrams of caffeine a day.
I drink, I'm half Argentine, so I drink, I drink, I drink yerba mate.
- Oh yeah.
- A cold brew zero sugar yerba mate or I drink yerba mate out the gourd.
If you're going to drink yerba mate, don't get the, don't get the sugary kind.
Nope. Get the loose leaf.
No, we, I have a yerba mate brand. It's not that one.
- You can get the yerba homie.
- Ours is Matina, which is, I'm not going to do a promotional here, but the
point here is that
if you like energy drinks, you like yerba mate, you like coffee, I'm like more
power to you.
- So there's 200 in a cup of coffee?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Yeah. And what's in one of these?
- 200 milligrams.
- So there was actually a study just published on taurine that everyone's
worried about,
but that study was in vitro. I need to see a lot of data. There's a lot of data
actually that
taurine is beneficial for the heart and it has kind of an anti-aging thing. It's
in,
you know, a lot of energy drinks.
- Yeah, that's like a lysine and a taurine.
- I love caffeine. I mean, man, caffeine and nicotine.
I, right now I'm kind of easing back on it. The delivery mechanism matters. You
don't
want to smoke vape, dip or snuff. You get cancer. People go, "Oh, vaping's not
bad."
Popcorn lung is real. People hate me for saying that vaping is bad. Not as bad
as smoking.
Vaping ain't good for you.
- And what flavor is the worst flavor? Any flavor?
- It's all bad for you, man. But the gums and the pouches, provided it's a low
dose,
it's very habit forming, but you know, three to six milligrams or something on
occasion.
- Yeah.
- This is the problem. People go to, pretty soon they're doing a whole canister
a day.
- Oh yeah. But...
- I got a buddy got a fucking mouth full of my buddy, like damn cotton-eyed Joe
over there.
- Nicotine's a very interesting drug because it's a stimulant, but it relaxes
you too.
But it does cause, excuse me, vasoconstriction.
And that's not good for all the stuff we were talking about earlier.
- No.
- You want blood flow to the brain and to your extremities, you know?
And so some nicotine early in the day, little bit.
Thank you.