The Perfect Summary Podcast

Stress scientist Elissa Epel explains how to turn threat into challenge, protect your cells from chronic stress, and drop the rope on what you can't change.

Six-time Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates on brief, brutal training, an honest view of steroids, life after winning, psychedelics and cannabis.

Andrew Huberman explains how stress works, why short bursts help immunity, and real-time, medium and long-term tools to control it.

Andrew Huberman explains how to time cortisol and use short bursts of adrenaline to raise energy, strengthen immunity and learn faster.

Andrew Huberman explains how the brain and immune system talk to each other, with tools from nasal breathing to cyclic hyperventilation and sauna.

Huberman explains why gratitude lists fall short and builds a brief, story-based gratitude practice grounded in neuroscience and immune research.

UCLA's Jack Feldman explains how the brain controls breathing, why we sigh, how breathing shapes emotion and cognition, and simple breathwork to try.

Stanford psychologist Alia Crum explains how beliefs about food, exercise, stress, and side effects change what happens in the body.

Stanford psychiatrist David Spiegel explains the brain science of hypnosis and how self-hypnosis can ease stress, pain, insomnia, phobias and trauma.

Andrew Huberman explains how the brain senses salt, how sodium drives thirst, stress and neuron firing, and how to find the salt intake that fits you.

Andrew Huberman explains grief as a craving the brain must remap across space, time, and closeness, plus tools for sleep, stress, and healthy grieving.

Psychiatrist Paul Conti explains what trauma is, why guilt and shame keep it hidden, how to find good therapy, and when medicines and psychedelics help.

Huberman explains how nerves, muscles and the insula limit flexibility, and gives research-backed stretching protocols that work in minutes a week.

Movement teacher Ido Portal and Andrew Huberman explore movement as a whole-life practice: play, failure, squatting, spinal waves, vision, touch and variety.

Andrew Huberman explains OCD's brain circuitry, how it differs from OCPD, and what the evidence says about CBT, SSRIs, and newer treatments.

Stanford psychiatrist Nolan Williams explains how TMS, ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA and ibogaine may reset the brain circuits behind depression and PTSD.

Jocko Willink and Andrew Huberman on creating energy through action, leading through wins and losses, grief, suicide, and learning to detach.

Sam Harris explains why meditation's real prize is seeing through the self, how it differs from psychedelics, and why he quit Twitter.

Dr. Sara Gottfried and Andrew Huberman cover female hormones across life: testing, microbiome, constipation, cortisol, PCOS, the pill and perimenopause.

Physicist Bernardo Huberman, Andrew's father, on following curiosity across fields, explaining relativity, chaos and quantum internet, and living with joy.

IFS founder Dr. Richard Schwartz explains protectors, exiles and Self, guides Andrew Huberman through a live session, then leads listeners through one.

Elite sprint coach Stu McMillan explains why adults should skip, how gait changes with speed, and why the ability to sprint may be the best health marker.

Ex-SEAL Andy Stumpf shares the influence-vs-concern exercise, why to choose the slightly harder option, and hard lessons on divorce and suicide.

Psychologist Paul Eastwick on why mate value fades as people get to know each other, what men and women really want, and what keeps couples together.

Movement teacher Ido Portal and Andrew Huberman explore play versus discipline, exposing will, transition states and refining body awareness.

Cesar Millan explains how silence, calm and confidence, structured walks and affection-last habits create calm dogs and better humans.

UCLA memory scientist Alan Castel on why errors help learning, how memory reshapes itself, and what superagers do differently.

UCSF immunologist Max Krummel explains the immune system as a sensing network, and how aging, sleep, the thymus, memories and vaccines shape it.

Caltech's Ralph Adolphs on what emotions are, why faces mislead us, and trainable regulation tools like ice baths and mental stillness.

Arthur Brooks explains happiness as enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning, and shares tools to spot your idols and live with more purpose.