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Huberman Lab · Mar 29, 2025 · 11 min read
Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimize Your Training Program for Fitness & Longevity

Dr. Andy Galpin's 10-step method for building a training plan you'll stick to, plus a year-long template and 3-, 4- and 6-day weekly programs.

Huberman Lab · Mar 28, 2025 · 10 min read
Dr. Andy Galpin: How to Assess & Improve All Aspects of Your Fitness

Andy Galpin lays out the nine types of fitness adaptation, why most training ends up lopsided, and simple tests to find your weakest areas.

Huberman Lab · Mar 28, 2025 · 12 min read
How to Optimize Fertility in Males & Females

Andrew Huberman explains how eggs and sperm are made, how conception works, and the habits, tests and supplements that support fertility and vitality.

Huberman Lab · Mar 28, 2025 · 11 min read
Dr Sara Gottfried How To Optimize Female Hormone Health For Vitality Longevity

Dr. Sara Gottfried explains what women should test and do at each life stage for hormone health, from gut and cortisol to PCOS and perimenopause.

Huberman Lab · Mar 28, 2025 · 14 min read
Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimal Protocols to Build Strength & Grow Muscles

Andy Galpin lays out the 3-to-5 system for strength and power, a forgiving hypertrophy framework, and the science of how muscle adapts.

Huberman Lab · Mar 28, 2025 · 14 min read
Dr. Andy Galpin: How to Build Physical Endurance & Lose Fat

Andy Galpin explains how fat really leaves the body, how fuel systems work, and protocols for four kinds of endurance, from exercise snacks to long runs.

Huberman Lab · Mar 27, 2025 · 17 min read
Jocko Willink: How to Become Resilient, Forge Your Identity & Lead Others | Huberman Lab Podcast #104

Jocko Willink and Andrew Huberman on discipline over motivation, exercise as energy, action after loss, and detachment as a leadership superpower.

Huberman Lab · Mar 26, 2025 · 16 min read
Dr. Lex Fridman: Navigating Conflict, Finding Purpose & Maintaining Drive

Lex Fridman returns from Ukraine to talk war, propaganda, hard conversations, peer review, his robotics dream and advice for young people.

Huberman Lab · Mar 26, 2025 · 12 min read
Science-Based Tools for Increasing Happiness

Andrew Huberman explains what research says about happiness, money, work and connection, and practical tools to build natural and synthetic happiness.

Huberman Lab · Mar 26, 2025 · 12 min read
Dr. Chris Palmer: Diet & Nutrition for Mental Health

Harvard psychiatrist Chris Palmer explains how metabolism and mitochondria shape mental illness and how ketogenic diets can treat it.

Huberman Lab · Mar 26, 2025 · 17 min read
Dr. Kyle Gillett: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males

Dr. Kyle Gillett explains how men can optimize hormones at every age, from puberty and bloodwork to supplements, TRT, prostate health and hair loss.

Huberman Lab · Mar 25, 2025 · 11 min read
Dr. Eddie Chang: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages

UCSF neurosurgeon Eddie Chang explains how the brain makes speech, why textbooks got language wrong, and how implants let a paralyzed man talk.

Huberman Lab · Mar 25, 2025 · 13 min read
Dr. Layne Norton: The Science of Eating for Health, Fat Loss & Lean Muscle,*

Dr. Layne Norton explains energy balance, protein, fiber, sugar, sweeteners, seed oils and supplements, and why the best diet is the one you can stick to.

Huberman Lab · Mar 25, 2025 · 13 min read
Fitness Toolkit: Protocol & Tools to Optimize Physical Health

Andrew Huberman lays out his seven-day fitness template covering endurance, resistance training, heat and cold, HIIT, stretching and real-world setbacks.

Huberman Lab · Mar 24, 2025 · 10 min read
Dr. David Anderson: The Biology of Aggression, Mating, & Arousal

Caltech's David Anderson explains the brain circuits and hormones behind fear, aggression and mating, and how social isolation fuels aggression.

Huberman Lab · Mar 24, 2025 · 14 min read
Dr. Erich Jarvis: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music

Dr. Erich Jarvis explains why vocal learning is rare, how songbirds mirror human speech, and why dancing and moving may keep the brain sharp.

Huberman Lab · Mar 24, 2025 · 12 min read
What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health

Andrew Huberman explains how even moderate drinking affects the brain, stress, gut, hormones and cancer risk, plus what helps a hangover.

Huberman Lab · Mar 23, 2025 · 12 min read
Dr Peter Attia Exercise Nutrition Hormones For Vitality Longevity

Peter Attia on backcasting from your last decade: blood work, bone density, VO2 max, strength, hormone therapy and apoB for a longer, better life.

Huberman Lab · Mar 22, 2025 · 9 min read
Dr Paul Conti Therapy Treating Trauma Other Life Challenges

Psychiatrist Paul Conti explains what trauma really is, why shame keeps it hidden, how to find good therapy, and where drugs and psychedelics fit.

Huberman Lab · Mar 22, 2025 · 13 min read
Improve Flexibility with Research-Supported Stretching Protocols

Huberman explains the reflexes and brain circuits behind flexibility and the study-backed way to stretch: 30-second holds, five days a week, gently.

Huberman Lab · Mar 22, 2025 · 10 min read
Dr Wendy Suzuki Boost Attention Memory With Science Based Tools

Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki explains how memories form and how exercise, meditation, sleep and affirmations improve memory, focus and mood.

Huberman Lab · Mar 22, 2025 · 9 min read
The Science & Process of Healing from Grief

Andrew Huberman explains grief as a state of yearning, how the brain maps loved ones in space, time and closeness, and tools for grieving adaptively.

Huberman Lab · Mar 22, 2025 · 10 min read
Ido Portal: The Science & Practice of Movement | Huberman Lab Podcast #77

Movement teacher Ido Portal and Andrew Huberman explore movement as a way of living: play, variety, the squat, vision, touch and endless exploration.

Huberman Lab · Mar 21, 2025 · 14 min read
Dr. Kyle Gillett: How to Optimize Your Hormones for Health & Vitality

Dr. Kyle Gillett explains his six pillars of hormone health, smart blood testing, PCOS, DHT, prolactin, TRT, supplements and peptides for men and women.

Huberman Lab · Mar 21, 2025 · 12 min read
Using Deliberate Cold Exposure for Health and Performance

Huberman explains how deliberate cold boosts dopamine and resilience, builds brown fat, aids recovery, and how to cool your palms for better performance.

Huberman Lab · Mar 21, 2025 · 11 min read
Using Light (Sunlight, Blue Light & Red Light) to Optimize Health

Huberman explains how specific wavelengths and timing of light affect hormones, pain, mood, immunity, skin, vision and brain health, with protocols.

Huberman Lab · Mar 21, 2025 · 11 min read
The Science & Health Benefits of Deliberate Heat Exposure

How sauna and other deliberate heat exposure improve heart health, cortisol, growth hormone, mood and metabolism, with specific protocols.

Huberman Lab · Mar 21, 2025 · 10 min read
Dr Rhonda Patrick Micronutrients For Health Longevity

Rhonda Patrick explains sulforaphane, omega-3s, vitamin D and magnesium, plus how cold, intervals and sauna build resilience and longevity.

Huberman Lab · Mar 20, 2025 · 12 min read
Dr. Justin Sonnenburg: How to Build, Maintain & Repair Gut Health

Stanford microbiologist Justin Sonnenburg explains the gut microbiome, why fermented foods cut inflammation, and what fiber, probiotics and cleanses really do.

Huberman Lab · Mar 20, 2025 · 10 min read
The Science of Love, Desire, and Attachment

Andrew Huberman explains how childhood attachment, the autonomic nervous system, empathy and positive delusion shape desire, love and lasting bonds.