Aubrey Marcus Quotes

“Finding a way to get still is one of the most essential things we can do as humans.”

“I think as you go over time and you really understand who you are and you realize that vulnerability isn’t actually vulnerability, it’s just being human. And I think like our ego wants to project this idea of perfection, this kind of bulletproof exterior, 'I got it all figured out', but nobody has it all figured out.”

“Nobody has it all figured out, but the ego wants to project this idea of perfection but it’s not true.”

“Salt may be bad for the heart if you have a really bad heart condition because what salt is going to do is just it’s going to make your blood a little thicker because you’re going to store more liquid because the sodium interaction with the liquid so you’re going to actually retain a little bit more water but really what that means is you’re more hydrated.

So, for anyone who’s actually healthy and not worried about squeezing blood through a clogged artery or something like that, salt is actually highly beneficial and one of the things that allow us to move and function and feed our adrenal system. And like, we’re basically a saltwater organism and too often we’re not supplying enough salt.”

“The circadian rhythm is really this kind of night and day clock that regulates so many different things in our body, our appetite, our hormones, our energy, our wakefulness, our sleepiness. And so, really the body’s designed to wake up with the light and go to sleep with the dark.

We’re not nocturnal animals by nature but we live inside houses which mimic like a cave-like environment and then we can go straight from our house to our car which is covered and straight from the car to the office which is covered. So, we might not actually be able to expose ourselves to the kind of light that’ll really make us feel awake and alert like our primitive man would’ve.”

“We are energetic beings. We require fuel and that fuel allows us to do absolutely everything and the input that we take in is like the gasoline for the car but a lot of times we’re taking in the wrong really shitty type of gasoline that ultimately creates different buildups, it creates different adaptations that are disadvantageous. So, what’s the absolute best fuel source for a human being? And that’s what I really wanted to look at. And I can tell you, it’s not a bunch of f*cking sugar. Like that is not the fuel source that this human organism thrives on.”

“We as humans thrive under conditions of acute stress. So stress that happens relatively fast and relatively temporarily and that can be imagined like training in the gym, a good, hard 30 minute of training like that is acute stress. The body will go through that and then it’ll take some time to recover and then it will adapt, and it will be better. Hormonally, it’ll be better. Musculoskeletally, it will be better, endorphinally, emotionally, there’s great science on the emotion of exercise and the psychological experiences you get as well as the physiological, that is like an ideal form of hormetic stress is called which is like a positive acute stress for the body working out. And there are other forms of that that are available and two of those are using temperature so either like extreme cold or extreme heat for short periods of time.”

“We’ll lose up to a pound of water overnight just from the water vapors and then if we’re in really big blankets or something, we may sweat even up to another pound so we’re dropping like a lot of weight. That’s why we’re lighter in the morning because moist air goes out, less moist air comes in and then all of a sudden, we lose a lot of water. So, the first thing that’s really important to do is hydrate.”