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How to Look at the Sun

You talk a lot about "getting sunlight in your eyes," I have not come across you explaining exactly HOW you do this. Are you focusing your retina straight at the sun (with UV index of 2 or less), are you looking unfocused directly at the sun while squinting, are you focusing your eyes somewhere in the sky near the sun (if so how many degrees away), are you reading a book while sun shines onto your eyeballs from the periphery? or the same while looking at your phone? HOW do you get your morning sun???

Time Restricted Feeding, weight, and cravings. Backfire?

I have been following TRF for about 18 moths with an average 4-6 hour feeding window. Initially the pounds were melting away. I had also started watching my macro intake at the same time. It was a wonderful combination. However in the past 6 months my weight has gone up even while still following my recommended macro intake. I have not been able to come down to where I was. I also noticed my end of the day food cravings are much harder to curb. Does TRF ever backfire? Is it possible to grow a tolerance to it and then it's harder to experience the same benefits?

Capacity for variation and change

Hello. Thank you for your podcast. I was fascinated by how chronotypes can adjusted but I wondered whether there was natural variation within that period. If everyone was awake from 7am - 11pm would there still be some people that have better cognitive function later in that period? I ask because my father was a very accomplished man and kept "regular" waking hours but always worked in the latter part of the day and it always intrigued me. Are there person to person variation in dopamine release or can you release and/or be more effected by dopamine/cortisol that working latter is more effective to avoid being too forward center of mass and impulsive is a greater impediment than lack of motivation? Thank you for your time. Lots of pseudo science and conflicting information and having an experts insights would be wonderful.

Sunlight in a foggy day

Good morning, and thank you for all your service and dedication to Huberman and all the time, the work you're doing to make this information accessible for anyone is incredible! I live in a very foggy place where it's common to be foggy in the morning, and it seems that there is basically no sunlight outside, way worse than on a cloudy day. Should I still go outside to get some sunlight? If yes, how much time should I stay there to be effective? If not, what are the best alternatives for my situation? Thank you for your time, João

not really doing any changes

i am 76 years old female .. 145 pouds started intermittent fasting .. window 12:00 noon to 6 started in october usually eat meat and veg .... nothing is changing and my cholesterol is going way high .. it tollerable in sept no weight loss .. help what am i doing wrong smiles jeanny help