Coral snake antivenom was discontinued in the US because it was deemed cost-ineffective, leaving bite victims with few treatment options despite the snake's lethal neurotoxin.
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Jeremy McBride frames the scope of what Monsters of God is really about: a $20 billion underground economy that most people have never considered, ranking fourth among the world's illegal trades. [1] — Jeremy McBride "$20B illegal wildlife trade: Illegal wildlife trafficking is a roughly $20 billion-a-year global industry, ranking only behind guns, drugs,…" 12:11 In the pre-TSA era, when passengers boarded planes without ID checks, carrying a suitcase full of rare reptiles was almost trivially easy. Reptiles offered traffickers something uniquely valuable: portability, silence, and extreme durability. They require no food or water for long periods, generate no noise, and are nearly impossible for overworked customs agents to identify by species. Eric contextualizes the number — much of the $20 billion is consumption: turtle meat, snake meat, traditional medicine, skins, and luxury goods — but the pure pet trade has exploded, particularly in China, which has adopted exotic reptile keeping at massive scale in the last 25 years.
Making the first hour of your day high-cortisol and the last hour low-cortisol is described as the single most impactful daily habit for mood, focus, alertness, stress resilience, and sleep quality.
A Washington University in St. Louis study found that a great night's sleep produces attention-improvement effects effectively equal to Ritalin.
In the 4 to 6 hours after exercise, dopamine and norepinephrine are elevated, making you more alert and better able to focus — unless you've exercised to exhaustion.
The physiological sigh — two big inhales followed by a full exhale — was discovered by physiologists in the 1930s and is the fastest way to reduce autonomic arousal.
Doing just 10 deliberate exhales throughout the day can significantly elevate heart rate variability by the evening, by repeatedly activating the vagal sinoatrial node pathway.
For nicotine to have a genuine cognitive-enhancing effect rather than merely rescuing withdrawal deficit, Huberman recommends using it only once or twice per week at 3–6 mg.
Because vaping can be done anywhere and is more palatable, people consume far more nicotine via vaping than they ever did smoking, potentially making vaping more dangerous in aggregate despite being safer per puff.
Huberman reported that two injections of approximately 100–200 micrograms of BPC-157 eliminated persistent shoulder pain that had resisted months of other interventions.
Huberman reported that on nights he used the peptide pinealon, he achieved 2.5 to 3 hours of REM sleep inside 6 hours — an unusually high proportion normally only found in the final hours of longer sleep.
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