Huberman Lab
Neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman discusses science and science-based tools for everyday life: sleep, focus, fitness, hormones, and mental health.
Neuralink and Brain-Machine Interfaces: Dr. Matt MacDougall on Implants, Robotic Surgery, and the Future of Human Cognition
Neuralink neurosurgeon Matt MacDougall explains brain implants for paralysis, robotic electrode surgery, animal research, and a sci-fi future for cognition.
Dr. Scott Kanoski on How Food Shapes Memory and Cravings: GLP-1, the Vagus Nerve, Sugar and the Microbiome
Scott Kanoski explains how GLP-1, the vagus nerve, sugar and processed food shape hunger, cravings and hippocampal memory.
Dr. Elissa Epel on Managing Stress, Threat vs. Challenge Responses, and Radical Acceptance (Huberman Lab Essentials)
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.
Dr. Beth Shapiro on De-Extinction: Dire Wolves, Woolly Mammoths and Gene Editing to Save Living Species
Beth Shapiro explains how ancient DNA and gene editing are reviving dire wolf and mammoth traits, and why the same tools can save living species.
Dr. Keith Humphreys on How Addiction Works and How People Overcome It
Stanford's Keith Humphreys on alcohol, cannabis, gambling, psychedelics and stimulants, and what the evidence says about recovery.
Dorian Yates on High-Intensity Training, Steroids, Life After Mr. Olympia and Psychedelics
Six-time Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates on brief, brutal training, an honest view of steroids, life after winning, psychedelics and cannabis.
Dr. David Eagleman on Neuroplasticity, Time Perception, Memory and Why We Dream
David Eagleman explains how the brain rewires itself, why time slows in a scare, why we dream, and how to bind your future self.
Dr. Read Montague: How Dopamine and Serotonin Really Shape Learning, Motivation and Decisions
Read Montague explains dopamine as a learning signal, serotonin as its opponent, and what stress, SSRIs and screens do to both.
How Cooling Your Palms, Feet and Face Can Supercharge Exercise Performance and Recovery
Andrew Huberman explains why heat limits effort and how cooling the palms, soles and face can multiply workout output and speed recovery.
Master Stress: Andrew Huberman's Tools for Short, Medium and Long-Term Stress
Andrew Huberman explains how stress works, why short bursts help immunity, and real-time, medium and long-term tools to control it.
Huberman Lab Essentials: Office Hours on Light, Sleep, Learning and Temperature
Andrew Huberman answers listener questions on light, exercise timing, learning during sleep and rest, smart drugs, temperature and food for better sleep and focus.
How to Defeat Jet Lag, Shift Work and Sleeplessness: Andrew Huberman on Your Temperature Minimum
Andrew Huberman shows how to use your temperature minimum, light, exercise and food to beat jet lag, manage shift work and sleep better at any age.
Understand and Use Dreams to Learn and Forget: Andrew Huberman on REM, Slow Wave Sleep and Emotional Unlearning (Essentials)
Andrew Huberman explains how slow wave sleep builds motor skills and REM sleep strips emotion from memories, and how to get more of each.
How to Focus to Change Your Brain: Andrew Huberman on Adult Neuroplasticity (Essentials)
Andrew Huberman explains how adults can change their brains through alertness, focused attention, visual focus tools and deep rest.
The Science of Emotions and Relationships: Attachment, Puberty, Oxytocin and the Three Axes of Feeling
Andrew Huberman explains how infancy and puberty shape emotions and bonds, and offers a three-axis framework for understanding how you feel.
Huberman Lab Essentials: Tools to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
Andrew Huberman's toolkit for focus: 90-minute sessions, meal and caffeine timing, cold exposure, a 13-minute meditation and a few supplements.
How to Increase Motivation and Drive: Dopamine, the Pleasure-Pain Balance and Intermittent Reward
Andrew Huberman explains how dopamine drives motivation, why pleasure comes paired with pain, and how intermittent reward keeps you on track.
How Thyroid Hormone and Growth Hormone Control Your Metabolism, and How to Support Both
Andrew Huberman explains thyroid and growth hormone, with tools from iodine and selenium to deep sleep, smart exercise, arginine and sauna.
How to Learn Physical Skills Faster: Repetitions, Errors, Idle Time and Visualization
Andrew Huberman on learning motor skills faster: many reps and errors, a quiet rest after practice, metronomes, a range-of-motion trick and visualization.
Andrew Huberman on Using Cortisol and Adrenaline to Boost Energy, Immunity and Learning
Andrew Huberman explains how to time cortisol and use short bursts of adrenaline to raise energy, strengthen immunity and learn faster.
Andrew Huberman on How to Lose Fat With Science-Based Tools
Andrew Huberman explains how neurons drive fat loss and shares tools: fidgeting, shiver-based cold exposure, fasted training, caffeine, yerba mate and carnitine.
Dr. Karl Deisseroth on Optogenetics, Psychiatry and Healing the Mind
Psychiatrist and optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroth on diagnosing with words, light-controlled neurons, psychedelics, focus and his book Projections.
Lex Fridman on Machines, Creativity, Friendship and Love
Lex Fridman explains how AI learns and shares his dream of robots and AI that remember our moments, ease loneliness and help us grow.
How to Control Your Sense of Pain and Pleasure: Skin, Brain, Dopamine and Practical Tools
Andrew Huberman explains how skin and brain create pain and pleasure, and tools from cold exposure and hypnosis to supplements and reward timing.