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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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This is the section the episode's title is quietly promising — Huberman sharing what he knows but can't yet publish. BPC-157 first [1] — Andrew Huberman "Two injections of BPC-157 (100–200 mcg) eliminated shoulder pain Huberman couldn't shift for months. The peptide pinealon gave him 2.5–3 ho…" 1:44:30 : after two to three months of press-induced shoulder pain that wouldn't respond to external rotation work, two small injections of BPC at 100–200 mcg cleared it entirely. He acknowledges the placebo possibility but finds it hard to explain given the animal data, the speed of resolution, and reports from people successfully using it in aged dogs with spinal strokes. Pinealon next: on nights he uses it (roughly once a week now), he gets 2.5 to 3 hours of REM sleep inside 6 hours — a proportion normally impossible until the final stage of a much longer sleep. The effect persists into subsequent nights even without re-dosing. The downside: mild sleep inertia the following morning. He then discusses a legal, clinically supervised experience combining MDMA and psilocybin — therapy before, during, and after — which he describes as the intervention that moved him through the final stages of his own trauma processing when each substance alone fell short. Ibogaine intrigues him; DMT makes him cautious because he has watched it alter people in lasting ways.
Huberman reported that two injections of approximately 100–200 micrograms of BPC-157 eliminated persistent shoulder pain that had resisted months of other interventions.
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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's book outlines four universal steps to process trauma: acknowledge the event, fully feel the emotions, decouple emotion from memory, then transmute the experience into something beautiful or contributory.
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