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My personal tip is related to one in the article: Instead of a full spectrum LED, use a near-infrared (Eg 850nm) light and shine it on your forehead for 5-10 minutes. The concentration gains I get from this are substantial, and they last up to 2 days. Security camera IR lights with 850nm can be had for $30 or so at Amazon. The name of the mechanism by which this works is called photobiomodulation, and there’s thousands of papers on how it improves body function.


Seeing a "mercola.com" domain show up in the first page of google results for this phenomenon just increased the difficulty of parsing whether or not the effect is legit or not by an order of magnitude.



Very interesting! What do you do while performing this? Do you just put it on while working, or do you just stop and «meditate» for the 5-10minutes?


I either kinda meditate, or read HN on my phone :)


I am going to look very silly doing this, but by golly I'm going to give it a shot.




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