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Huberman Lab · Apr 5, 2025 · 9 min read
A Science-Supported Journaling Protocol to Improve Mental & Physical Health

Andrew Huberman explains James Pennebaker's four-session expressive writing protocol and how it improves anxiety, sleep, immunity and pain.

Huberman Lab · Apr 5, 2025 · 9 min read
LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Toronto, ON

Andrew Huberman answers Toronto audience questions on mental fitness, inspiration, winter light, neuroplasticity, desk-bound movement and meditation.

Huberman Lab · Apr 4, 2025 · 13 min read
Mental Health Toolkit: Tools to Bolster Your Mood & Mental Health

Huberman's toolkit for mood: the big six pillars, nighttime darkness, emotional granularity, cyclic sighing, journaling and processing trauma.

Huberman Lab · Apr 1, 2025 · 10 min read
How to Enhance Performance & Learning by Applying a Growth Mindset

Huberman explains the science of growth mindset, why praising effort beats praising talent, and how a stress-is-enhancing mindset amplifies it.

Huberman Lab · Mar 31, 2025 · 13 min read
Dr. Susanna Søberg: How to Use Cold & Heat Exposure to Improve Your Health

Dr. Susanna Søberg explains brown fat, the 11-minute cold and 57-minute sauna weekly dose, and why you should end on cold.

Huberman Lab · Mar 30, 2025 · 12 min read
Dr. Elissa Epel: Control Stress for Healthy Eating, Metabolism & Aging

Stress scientist Elissa Epel explains how stress shapes cravings, metabolism and cellular aging, and the mind, body and environment tools that help.

Huberman Lab · Mar 29, 2025 · 10 min read
How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance

Andrew Huberman explains the science of breathing and zero-cost tools like the physiological sigh, box breathing and nasal breathing for calm, sleep and focus.

Huberman Lab · Mar 29, 2025 · 14 min read
Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals

Dr. Andy Galpin explains what soreness really is, how overreaching differs from overtraining, and the tools and metrics that speed and track recovery.

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 27, 2025 · 9 min read
LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in New York, NY

Andrew Huberman answers audience questions on stress, self-hypnosis, gut health, dogs, night owls, and how to tell if you are on the right path.

Huberman Lab · Mar 27, 2025 · 7 min read
AMA #3 Adaptogens, Fasting & Fertility, BluetoothEMF Risks, Cognitive Load Limits & More

Andrew Huberman defines adaptogens and explains how greens, ashwagandha, lion's mane, chaga and breathing tools buffer cortisol.

Huberman Lab · Mar 26, 2025 · 10 min read
LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Los Angeles, CA

Huberman answers audience questions on ADHD without medication, cold exposure, EMDR, gut health, motivation, dreams and psilocybin.

Huberman Lab · Mar 25, 2025 · 12 min read
How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditations

Huberman explains the neuroscience of meditation and how to pick practices by attention bias, breathing and goals, plus space-time bridging.

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 24, 2025 · 12 min read
LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Portland, OR

Huberman answers a Portland audience on brain injury, lowering dopamine, morning light, Wim Hof breathing, red light, ice baths and fear.

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 · 10 min read
The Science & Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Andrew Huberman explains the brain loop behind OCD, why compulsions feed obsessions, and how exposure therapy, SSRIs and newer options compare.

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 21, 2025 · 12 min read
Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools

Andrew Huberman explains how memories form and why spiking adrenaline right after learning, exercise, mental snapshots and meditation boost recall.

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 · 8 min read
Understanding & Controlling Aggression

Andrew Huberman explains the brain circuits and hormones behind aggression, why estrogen not testosterone drives it, and tools to lower aggressive drive.

Huberman Lab · Mar 20, 2025 · 12 min read
Dr. David Spiegel: Using Hypnosis to Enhance Health & Performance

Stanford psychiatrist David Spiegel explains what clinical hypnosis does in the brain and how it helps with pain, stress, sleep, phobias and trauma.

Huberman Lab · Mar 20, 2025 · 11 min read
Using Salt to Optimize Mental & Physical Performance

Andrew Huberman explains how the brain senses salt, regulates thirst and fluid, and how to find the sodium intake that best supports your health and performance.

Huberman Lab · Mar 19, 2025 · 12 min read
Dr. Jack Feldman: Breathing for Mental & Physical Health & Performance

Breathing pioneer Jack Feldman explains how the brain makes each breath, why we sigh, and how breath practice can change fear and mood.

Huberman Lab · Mar 19, 2025 · 11 min read
Dr. Alia Crum: Science of Mindsets for Health & Performance

Stanford's Dr. Alia Crum shows how beliefs about food, exercise, stress and side effects change hunger hormones, health and performance.

Huberman Lab · Mar 18, 2025 · 10 min read
The Science of Gratitude & How to Build a Gratitude Practice

Andrew Huberman explains why listing blessings falls short and how a brief, story-based gratitude practice shifts brain, heart and immune function.

Huberman Lab · Mar 18, 2025 · 12 min read
Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear

Huberman explains how fear is wired into the brain and how to undo it: extinction plus a new narrative, EMDR, ketamine, MDMA and brief deliberate stress.

Huberman Lab · Mar 17, 2025 · 12 min read
Using Your Nervous System to Enhance Your Immune System

Andrew Huberman explains how the immune and nervous systems interact, and shares tools from breathing and sleep to sauna and spirulina to fight infection.

Huberman Lab · Mar 16, 2025 · 13 min read
Dr Robert Sapolsky Science Of Stress Testosterone Free Will

Robert Sapolsky explains what testosterone really does, why stress control has limits, estrogen timing, and why he thinks free will doesn't exist.

Huberman Lab · Mar 16, 2025 · 11 min read
Understanding & Conquering Depression

Huberman explains the biology of major depression and evidence-based tools, from SSRIs and EPA to creatine, exercise, ketamine and psilocybin.