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Andrew Huberman · 2021-08-09

How to Control Your Sense of Pain & Pleasure

How to Control Your Sense of Pain & Pleasure

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Pilot V5 / V7 pens

Pilot

“My favorite pens”
“My favorite pens, these pilot, V5 or V7, which I love. If you were to close your eyes and I were to take these two pens”— Andrew Huberman
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Reveri (self-hypnosis app)

David Spiegel (inferred)

“there's a wonderful zero cost resource that's grounded in this work”
“It's the app reveri.com... There you can download a zero cost app for Apple phones or for Android phones”— Andrew Huberman

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Naltrexone (low dose)

“The drug is called naltrexone. Naltrexone is actually used for the treatment of various opioid addictions”— Andrew Huberman
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Acetyl-L-carnitine

“There is evidence that acetylcarnitine can reduce the symptoms of chronic whole body pain and other certain forms of acute pain”— Andrew Huberman
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Agmatine sulfate

“which are agmatine and S-adenosyl-L-methionine... Both of those have been shown to have some impact... on various forms of pain”— Andrew Huberman
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SAMe (S-adenosyl-L-methionine)

“SAMe in particular has been interesting because it's been shown head to head with drugs like Naproxen... to work at least as well”— Andrew Huberman
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Naproxen

“it's been shown head to head with drugs like Naproxen and other drugs of that sort, which are well established and sold over the counter”— Andrew Huberman
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5-MTHF (5-methyltetrahydrofolate)

“what they think is a better or more bioavailable alternative, which is 5-methyltetrahydrofolate or 5-MTHF”— Andrew Huberman
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PEA (Phenethylamine)

“One in particular that's very interesting is something called PEA. PEA, it stands for Phenethylamine”— Andrew Huberman
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Wellbutrin (Bupropion)

“certain drugs like antidepressants like Wellbutrin Bupropion as it's commonly called”— Andrew Huberman
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Prozac

“the serotonin selective re-uptake inhibitors like Prozac, Zoloft and similar will increase dopamine and serotonin”— Andrew Huberman
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Zoloft

“the serotonin selective re-uptake inhibitors like Prozac, Zoloft and similar will increase dopamine and serotonin”— Andrew Huberman
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5-HTP

“Some people will take serotonin in precursor form like 5HTP or serotonin itself, or they'll take the amino acid precursor like tryptophan”— Andrew Huberman