Altered Traits

This book by Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Andrew Huberman. The people who vouched for it on air: Andrew Huberman. It comes up in conversations about anxiety & stress, longevity & aging, meditation & mindfulness. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “at least from the book altered traits which I'm a big fan of um talked about these daily repeated short meditations or these longer TM Retreats”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “the book altered traits which I'm a big fan of”
  Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Apr 202301:25:13

  Said during "Control Stress for Healthy Eating, Metabolism & Aging | Dr. Elissa Epel". The episode features Elissa Epel: Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC San Francisco and director of the Center on Aging, Metabolism and Emotions. Author of The Telomere Effect and The Stress Prescription, she studies how stress affects cellular aging, eating behavior, and resilience. Stress researcher Elissa Epel explains how reframing stress, mindful eating, and breath work shape aging, metabolism, and emotional health.