# @underthebar on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-11-07T15:48:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dave Tate (@underthebar) — https://gondola.cc/underthebar

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New Podcast Alert 🚨


A huge thank you to Alex Kikel for joining Table Talk and breaking down how today’s tech, peptides, and nootropics impact the way we train, recover, and think. What’ll hit home for the elitefts crew:



— Phones, blue light, and endless scrolling jack your dopamine/serotonin and blunt focus the next day—think CNS cost before you even touch a barbell. Time-box the feed and reclaim your daylight.



— “Use tools, don’t live on them.” Modafinil vs. Adderall, phenylpiracetam, and when (rarely) to deploy them so your brain adapts instead of atrophying.



— Brain plasticity is trainable: habits shrink or grow the hardware. Build attention like you build a squat... progress, recover, repeat.



— Peptides & neuro-repair: when recovery is handled (sleep, food, training), targeted compounds can be phased for performance—not as daily crutches.



— Prefrontal cortex talk: constant screen exposure and low-effort inputs delay maturation and kill critical thinking—protect your focus like a top set.


This episode—Dave Tate’s Table Talk #381 with Alex Kikel—can be seen on elitefts YouTube and Spotify and heard on all podcast networks.

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