Limited workout to 1 hour
You said you try not to workout for more than 1 hour to avoid a cortisol surge which is detrimental for good sleep. How does this match with medium intensity workout and with 2 workout sessions of 1 hour in a day? Which of these scenarios would be better for a good night's sleep? Would cortisol affect for a night's sleep even when the hard workout is early in the morning?
Cardiovascular consequences of artificial sweeteners consumption
In the lastest video about nutrition, you didn't talk about a recent study in which it was found that chronic consumption of artificial sweeteners can increase the risk coronary disease and stroke. Title of the study : "Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases: results from the prospective NutriNet-Santé cohort" What do you think about their conclusion ? (Exemple of one of the findings : Acesulfame K : 40% increased risk of coronary heart disease) Which seems pretty negative
Does cold shower decreases motivation to do anything after that?
If doing dopaminergic activity before the wanted activity demotivates me to perform that activity does that mean that cold shower gets me excited but my motivation to do something hard will be decreased? Same problem with coffee. My assumption is that prolonged raise of dopamine prevents doing something hard since that activity won’t trigger as much dopamine to allow significant difference between pick and raised baseline. Wouldn’t it be better to avoid any dopaminergic activity before you do the most important or hard thing in your day?