Is Andrew Huberman Ruining Your Morning Coffee?

The only person ruining my morning coffee is me

As a researcher, I cringe at the confidence with which Huberman gives advice on nearly every facet of life. Science is based on uncertainty, and most results ‘suggest’ or ‘indicate’ the existence of an effect, but effect sizes are important. Something that is statistically significant may be scientifically interesting but may bear no real-life significance.

“Be skeptical of simple mechanisms impacting complex outcomes” amen 🙏

Alas, you got it wrong. I never said to skip caffeine first thing in the morning in fact I take it right before early morning workouts. The point is that for people that experience a crash in the afternoon this is one variable they can experiment with…it relates to adenosine, caffeine sensitivity, and cortisol. This is covered in a few different HLP episodes. Clips can be a bit misleading. All the best, Andrew

I’m just waiting for this to turn into Hames Joffmann morning routine “ First I make coffee then I make coffee then I make a bit more coffee”

This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes. “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” H. L. Mencken

JH: He's the most...widespread science communicator on the internet. Me: He's Hank Green?

“ We are weird and complex meat bags”. I think we have the Hames Joffmann video title.

As a coffee and science lover while also doing my in PhD building tools for fundamental neuroscience investigations. I saw the video. and obvious huberman pop science is usually offputting to any scientist - I also worry about youtubers stepping out of their field to "try" science. Really impressed (and unsurprised) that James has a firm base in building a study and a firm base to just be skeptical on everything. Better than some actual scientists I know trained at all these top schools. My respect for Hoffmann is now somehow even higher!

Can’t have a caffeine crash if you don’t stop consuming caffeine till 6pm