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Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by alan-hn on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:25PM (#40310521)
After hearing that he advocates for nicotine use to prevent Alzheimer's I'm pretty skeptical of him. He seems to entirely ignore the risks associated with nicotine drive vasoconstriction all for a possible minor benefit.

I suppose you don't need to worry about neurodegeneration if you die from a heart attack or aneurysm before you get that old

Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by noname120 on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:52PM (#40310862)
> he advocates for nicotine use to prevent Alzheimer's

Could you source this?

Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by debacle on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:58PM (#40310947)
https://podcastnotes.org/huberman-lab/episode-90-nicotines-e...

It has been known for a long time that nicotine, as well as caffeine and other stimulants can delay Alzheimer's. I don't think that Andrew's claim is novel or controversial, but he is making an observation not a recommendation.

Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by jjtheblunt on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:59PM (#40310961)
Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by sickofparadox on Thursday May 09, 2024 @02:48PM (#40311586)
Do you have a specific timestamp of him advocating for the use of nicotine? From the description and timestamp chapters this seems like a fairly reasonable episode on the effects of nicotine in the brain, which, given the topic of the podcast seems in his lane. It even dedicates a decent portion of runtime to quitting smoking and vaping, even though that isn't really on topic.
Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by jjtheblunt on Saturday May 11, 2024 @05:29PM (#40330751)
This alternate link to the same site seems more attuned to what you just asked. (Not going to listen to it all myself...life's too short, then you do or don't get forgetful!)

https://ai.hubermanlab.com/s/dqcKio7m

Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by Invictus0 on Thursday May 09, 2024 @02:00PM (#40310967)
He's wrong about X because he says Y is a logical fallacy
Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by astine on Thursday May 09, 2024 @02:31PM (#40311342)
That's not what the GP said. They said Huberman's incorrect statements on something they understood made them more skeptical regarding his other statements, not that these other statements were definitely wrong because the first statements were wrong. It's about judging Huberman's reliability as a source of information, not deciding whether he's correct or not, ie whether it makes sense to take Huberman at his word or whether one should doublecheck the things that he says.
Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by whytookay on Thursday May 09, 2024 @02:06PM (#40311035)
Sure, but if he has a track record of being wrong about X then being skeptical of future claims seems reasonable.
Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by Invictus0 on Thursday May 09, 2024 @02:30PM (#40311338)
There's no nicotine in cannabis, so I don't see how they are at all related
Re:Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts by mrgoldenbrown on Thursday May 09, 2024 @03:12PM (#40311884)
If someone has a history of misrepresenting research on drug X and drug Y, it's reasonable to be skeptical of their claims about drug Z