Andrew Huberman on Aspirin

“I personally like to avoid taking painkillers unless I have to take them. I might take an aspirin every once in a while, but I really like to avoid taking painkillers.”

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“Be cautious about your use of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, especially within the 4 hours preceding or the 4 hours following exercise.”

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“Those sorts of treatments which reduce inflammation may not be so great at the beginning when you want inflammation. They may be important for limiting pain so people can be functional at all.”

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“Let's say you take an aspirin and you don't normally take aspirin, you will shift your circadian rhythm. Anytime you ingest a compound at high potency, you're going to provide some shift to your circadian rhythm.”

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“Those seem to prevent a lot of the gains, the improvements in endurance, strength, and size that people are specifically using exercise for.”

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“Basically every compound alters rapid eye movement sleep usually for the worse. It's kind of wild. An aspirin will do it.”

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“Treatments which reduce inflammation, like aspirin, may not be so great at the beginning when you want inflammation. They generally work by blocking things called the COX prostaglandin blockers.”

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