Experts Fasting Andrew Huberman

Andrew Huberman · 23 episodes · 395 sourced insights

What Andrew Huberman says about fasting

Everything Andrew Huberman and guests said about fasting across 23 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Reframes cortisol as a 'hormone of energy' rather than a stress hormone, and says you don't want cortisol too low.
00:02:36Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Core tool: get sunlight outside within 30 minutes of waking (no sunglasses) to time your cortisol peak to the morning.
00:05:14Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Claims the body can't tell the difference between a troubling text, an ice bath, and HIIT, it's all just stress.
00:11:28Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Key mechanism: train adrenaline release from the adrenals while keeping the mind calm, since cortisol crosses the blood-brain barrier but epinephrine does not.
00:17:41Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Counterintuitive finding: brief 1-4 day bouts of stress can boost immune function instead of harming it.
00:18:43Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Cites the 2014 Kox et al. PNAS Wim Hof study where deliberate breathing attenuated fever and vomiting from injected E. coli.
00:19:45Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Reveals chronic sympathetic activation depletes melanocyte stem cells in hair, so stress literally turns hair gray.
00:23:58Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Personal protocol: takes 50 mg of apigenin (from chamomile) before bed to calm the nervous system.
00:25:30Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Cortisol is a steroid hormone made from cholesterol and competes with testosterone and estrogen for that cholesterol when you're stressed.
00:01:32Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
A sunny morning sky is ~100,000 lux, a cloudy day ~10,000 lux, bright artificial light ~1,000 lux, and room light only 100-200 lux, so phones and bulbs can't time cortisol.
00:06:16Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Light exposure guidance: ~10 minutes outside on a clear day, 10-20 minutes with broken clouds, ~30 minutes on dense overcast days.
00:06:47Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Dopamine is the precursor to epinephrine, so telling yourself you enjoy a stressor can chemically increase adrenaline output.
00:11:59Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Chronic stress (more than 4-7 days) can flip cortisol's negative feedback loop into a positive one, making stress cause more stress.
00:22:54Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
In studies of chronic corticosterone, animals ate more sugar and fat, even lard, leading to type 2 diabetes.
00:23:26Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Ashwagandha is reported to reduce cortisol by 14.5 to 27.9% in otherwise healthy but stressed humans.
00:24:58Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Huberman's own routine: skips breakfast, delays caffeine 90 minutes to 2 hours, and eats first meal around 11:30-noon, keeping carbs low to maintain high epinephrine.
00:27:38Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
The classic stress-immunity research is based largely on the work of Bruce McEwen at Rockefeller University.
00:18:12Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 2025
Huberman flatly states nobody, no government or nutritionist, can define truly healthy eating; we only have measurable proxies.
00:08:01Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
A Cell Reports study shows protein eaten early in the day (5-10am) builds more muscle than the same protein eaten later, driven by the circadian BMAL clock gene.
00:13:12Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Anorexia is the most dangerous psychiatric disorder of all, deadlier than depression, with very high untreated mortality.
00:30:37Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Anorexia rates have not risen over centuries, undercutting the idea that social media imagery causes it and pointing to a strong biological basis.
00:31:38Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
In anorexics the reward circuitry (dorsal lateral striatum) is flipped so they feel rewarded for avoiding food, making restriction a habit, not self-punishment.
01:22:41Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Anorexics who eat almost nothing often have cosmically high cholesterol, a wrinkle in the dietary-cholesterol hypothesis.
01:04:12Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Dr. Casey Halpern uses FDA-approved deep brain stimulation targeting nucleus accumbens Delta oscillations to treat binge eating disorder.
01:58:17Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Legal clinical trials at Johns Hopkins are exploring MDMA and psilocybin for eating disorders, though Huberman urges waiting for the data.
01:35:46Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Stomach fullness signals satiety mechanically via baroreceptors, independent of actual nutrient content.
00:41:05Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
AgRP neurons drive the urge to eat; killing them makes animals refuse food, while overactivity makes them eat to bursting.
00:43:41Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Body fat secretes leptin to suppress appetite, and low leptin is why anorexics stop having periods.
00:45:16Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Dr. Halpern frames our wiring as evolved to eat as often, as much, and as fast as possible because food was once scarce.
00:52:06Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Anorexics show 'weak central coherence,' spotting a hidden face in a field of coffee beans faster than non-anorexics.
01:30:32Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
A Caltech rooftop study found people walk near-identical robotic trajectories from their cars every day, illustrating habits.
01:16:20Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
VR studies in Jeremy Bailenson's Stanford lab show anorexics severely distort self-avatars, revealing a real perceptual defect.
01:44:37Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Deaths from eating disorders are not far off the number of deaths from automobile accidents in some countries.
02:11:19Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Bulimia's hallmark is a lack of inhibitory control, often paired with other impulsive behaviors like alcohol or promiscuity.
01:52:32Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Every cell, from hair to retina to toe, runs the BMAL clock gene that times protein synthesis across 24 hours.
00:16:21Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Lembke says it is the deviation from a tonic dopamine baseline, not hits in a vacuum, that matters.
00:01:38Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Calls pleasure and pain being co-located in the brain one of the most significant neuroscience findings of the last 75 years.
00:07:32Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Explains the pain response overshoots, pushing pain higher than the original pleasure.
00:10:13Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
States it takes about 30 days of abstinence to reset the brain's reward pathways.
00:12:55Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Reveals people often relapse when things are going well, as success removes the hypervigilance keeping use in check.
00:18:53Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Argues psychedelic-assisted therapy is a 'dopamine feast,' not a fast, and should violate dopamine biology.
00:24:42Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Declares social media really is a drug, deliberately engineered to be one.
00:29:35Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Dopamine is linked to both reward and movement, because early humans had to move to seek food and water.
00:00:30Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
People who are depressed may have lower tonic baseline levels of dopamine.
00:02:09Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Impulsivity is a key risk factor for addiction, but may be a trait that was advantageous in other environments.
00:04:18Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Recovery typically feels worse for the first two weeks, with the 'sun coming out' in week three.
00:13:29Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Even just thinking about a trigger releases a mini dopamine spike followed by a mini deficit, which is craving.
00:19:26Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Truth-telling may strengthen prefrontal cortex connections to the limbic and reward brain.
00:22:33Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Honest, intimate connections with others themselves create dopamine.
00:23:38Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Casual self-directed microdosing for a 'spiritual awakening' almost never works out well.
00:28:28Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Constant phone-checking may be eroding our ability to sustain a single thought, the source of creativity.
00:31:12Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Dr. Lembke is not on social media, staying true to her own ideology.
00:31:12Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
This is an 'office hours' solo episode held after 27 prior episodes, structuring all protocols around the unit of a single day.
00:01:35Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Huberman deliberately delays caffeine 90-120 minutes after waking to avoid the afternoon adenosine crash.
00:28:14Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
He argues the whole 'what breaks a fast' debate is silly because it depends entirely on individual insulin sensitivity and glycogen state.
00:33:25Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Your temperature minimum (about 2 hours before average wake time) predicts that your best focused work falls 4-6 hours after it.
00:48:26Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Of all NSDR protocols, hypnosis is uniquely effective because it is goal-directed and boosts relaxation, focus, and self-awareness simultaneously.
01:25:36Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Huberman is not a fan of melatonin supplements, citing too-high doses and effects on sex steroid hormones and puberty.
01:50:05Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
After a late night, he says you should still wake at your normal time rather than sleeping in or going to bed extremely early.
02:00:59Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Forward walking generates 'optic flow' that lowers amygdala activity and reduces anxiety, backed by papers in Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.
00:12:08Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Morning sunlight through cloud cover still delivers far more light-information photons to the eyes than a bright indoor bulb.
00:17:20Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Blue light early in the day is exactly the wavelength that best sets circadian rhythms, so daytime blue-blockers can be harmful.
00:23:03Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Yerba mate and guayusa increase GLP-1 release, and reused tea leaves seem to enhance that effect on subsequent pour-overs.
00:34:26Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Eyes directed upward and an upright posture increase alertness via brainstem circuits; looking down increases sleepiness.
00:37:32Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
There is a direct neural connection from the bladder to brainstem alertness centers, which is why a full bladder feels so agitating.
00:42:46Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
About 1,000 mg/day of EPA omega-3 has been shown as effective as prescription antidepressants for relieving depression.
01:13:07Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Refined sugar can trigger gut neurons via the vagus nerve and nodose ganglia to release dopamine and drive more sugar craving.
01:40:38Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Hot baths, showers, or sauna accelerate the post-heat body-temperature drop that makes falling asleep easier.
01:44:51Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
During non-REM sleep you cool yourself by sticking out a hand, foot, or face through AVAs (arteriovenous anastomoses).
01:48:29Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jul 2021
Claims 93% of American adults have suboptimal metabolism per recent cardiology research.
00:07:47Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Argues the more medicine specializes into 100+ silos, the sicker Americans get.
00:10:26Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
States that if walking were a pill it would be the most impactful drug in all of modern medicine.
00:36:27Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
A 10-minute walk after a meal can cut the glucose response by roughly 30-35%.
00:43:09Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Calls Ozempic 'the ultimate Band-Aid' and says no chronic-disease drug has ever lowered that disease's rate.
01:41:28Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Claims 60% of mainstream media advertising budget is pharma, shaping coverage of GLP-1 drugs.
01:55:36Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Says the average American spends 93.7% of their time indoors, calling it a core driver of poor health.
02:43:59Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
People who walk over 7,000 steps a day had 50-65% lower mortality in 10-year follow-ups.
00:32:50Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Under-desk treadmill users lost 2.6 lb fat and gained 2.2 lb lean mass in two weeks at very slow speeds.
00:48:48Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
In Kevin Hall's NIH study, people ate ~500 extra calories per day (7,000 over two weeks) on ultra-processed food.
01:27:18Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
About 100g of spinach daily (5g thylakoids) significantly raised GLP-1 over 12 weeks.
01:46:43Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
The body makes roughly 88 pounds of ATP per day, constantly recycling it.
02:04:29Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Eating the same calories in a 6-hour window vs a 12-hour window yields significantly lower 24-hour glucose and insulin.
02:08:39Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
The same meal eaten at 8:30pm spikes glucose and insulin far more than at 9:30am.
02:14:55Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Stanford's 'glucotype' study found non-diabetic people range from flat to very spiky glucose, with spikier people having worse biomarkers.
02:24:45Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Instant oatmeal is one of the biggest glucose spikers in the Levels dataset despite its healthy reputation.
02:29:24Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
A Nature study found the size of the post-meal glucose crash predicts 24-hour calorie intake and carb cravings.
02:31:31Dr. Casey Means · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Caloric restriction raises testosterone in obese/metabolic-syndrome men but actually DECREASES it in young, lean, healthy men.
00:06:13Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Starting TRT drastically raises the risk of sleep apnea, in a dose-dependent fashion, even in men who had normal testosterone beforehand.
00:10:19Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Testosterone doesn't cause prostate cancer, but it will grow an existing one—and by age 80 at least 50% of men have a prostate cancer on autopsy.
00:22:19Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Most women actually have far more total testosterone than estradiol, and significantly more DHEA than either.
00:13:28Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Gillett wagers a Russian gymnast who fully healed a ruptured Achilles in one month was likely using BPC-157 or something similar.
00:29:36Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Strong warning: non-prescription BPC-157 is often contaminated with LPS, and the 'tingling/fever' people feel is inflammation, not the peptide 'working.'
00:30:36Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Casein (milk protein) and gluten act as mu-opioid receptor agonists in the gut and can raise prolactin, which suppresses testosterone.
00:23:22Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
The 'big six pillars' of hormone health: diet, exercise, stress, sleep, sunlight, and spirit—with diet and resistance training the two most powerful.
00:02:35Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Gillett recommends blood testing every 3 to 6 months for prevention, done both fasted and non-fasted.
00:05:11Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Huberman cites a target of 150–180 minutes minimum of zone-two cardio per week.
00:05:42Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
The androgen receptor gene sits on the X chromosome, so men inherit it from their mothers.
00:14:01Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Dutasteride mesotherapy—localized scalp injections—can fight hair loss while limiting whole-body DHT side effects.
00:16:05Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
PCOS is diagnosed via the Rotterdam criteria (androgen excess, insulin resistance, polycystic ovaries) and most women find out in their 30s.
00:17:39Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Smoked marijuana raises aromatase (converting testosterone to estrogen), while THC/CBD alone do not lower testosterone.
00:20:46Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Bremelanotide/PT-141 (a melanotan peptide) has FDA-approved indications, including low libido in premenopausal women.
00:32:10Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Caffeine has a negligible effect on hormones unless it disrupts your sleep.
00:36:47Dr. Kyle Gillett · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
9 minutes a day of short vigorous activity bursts is associated with 40% lower all-cause mortality and 50% lower cardiovascular mortality.
00:00:00Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
A 5-day high-fat, high-sugar overfeeding study made healthy young men's brains insulin resistant and added visceral and liver fat without weight gain.
01:18:48Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Patrick raised her daily creatine to 10 g and uses 20-25 g when sleep-deprived or traveling for a cognitive boost.
02:15:32Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
A Swiss trial found omega-3 plus vitamin D plus resistance training cut invasive cancer risk by 66%.
02:27:27Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Patrick insists multivitamins are not useless, citing COSMOS trials where Centrum Silver reduced brain aging by ~2 years (4.9 years for episodic memory).
02:46:40Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
A study found glass water bottles can contain MORE microplastics than plastic, traced to paint on the bottle lids.
03:18:17Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Patrick gives her own son 2.5 g of creatine a day, citing safety and agility benefits in youth athletes.
03:23:26Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Refined sugar paired with saturated fat triggers a strong post-meal LPS inflammatory response from the gut.
00:35:10Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Injected LPS can raise inflammatory markers like TNF-alpha up to 50% and induce depressive symptoms and social withdrawal.
00:39:22Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Stopping eating 3 hours before bed lets blood pressure dip during sleep and was linked to ~20% lower cardiovascular event risk.
01:01:38Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
It takes roughly 11-12 hours of fasting to deplete liver glycogen and flip the 'metabolic switch' into fat-burning and ketone production.
01:27:01Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
People with high visceral fat have about double the risk of early death and a 44% higher chance of several cancers.
01:13:02Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Meeting exercise guidelines can offset the higher mortality risk of sleeping fewer than 7 hours per night.
01:50:42Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
About 2 g/day of omega-3 can move someone from a low (4%) to a high (8%) omega-3 index, linked to ~90% lower sudden cardiac death.
02:32:08Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Broccoli-sprout sulforaphane can boost excretion of carcinogens like benzene by ~60% within 24 hours via the NRF2 pathway.
02:53:22Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
A WashU study suggests ADHD drugs like Ritalin mainly raise alertness to the level of a good night's sleep rather than directly boosting focus.
03:11:01Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
It takes about 3-4 weeks of 5 g/day to saturate muscle creatine stores; the old 'loading phase' was just to speed studies along.
02:07:16Dr. Rhonda Patrick · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Huberman flatly states vaping/smoking/dipping cause cancer but nicotine itself does not, and calls nicotine a genuine cognitive enhancer.
00:03:40Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Recounts an unnamed Nobel laureate in his late 70s chewing six pieces of Nicorette in a 30-minute meeting to offset Parkinson's and Alzheimer's risk.
00:05:48Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
On ADHD meds: 'are we putting our kids on speed yes... they're amphetamines,' but argues they have real clinical value and shouldn't be demonized.
00:07:51Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Tells listeners worried about years of 5-hour nights they are likely not doomed: the brain can recover and 'it's unlikely that you did substantial damage.'
00:12:33Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Says 'there is no such thing as true adrenal burnout' because the adrenals don't burn out; burnout is psychological, not adrenal depletion.
00:19:16Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Distinguishes legitimate testosterone replacement therapy from 'testosterone augmentation therapy,' which he says far too many young men now do.
00:33:52Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Reveals he visited Wim Hof in the Pyrenees in 2015 and brought him to the States; explains Wim Hof breathing is just cyclic hyperventilation.
00:38:04Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
The event was titled 'the brain body contract' and held at the Great Hall in Brisbane, Australia.
00:00:00Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Nicotine binds nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and may help maintain dopaminergic neurons lost with age and in Parkinson's.
00:05:48Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Huberman previews a six-episode sleep series with Matt Walker and Walker's QQRT framework: quality, quantity, regularity, timing.
00:16:43Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Sleep need varies widely; he says don't panic if you get seven not eight hours, and weekend sleep flexibility is fine if timing stays regular.
00:16:11Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Cites Andy Galpin's 'exercise snacks'-60-second all-out bursts like stair runs or jumping jacks-as improving fitness markers including VO2 max.
00:29:43Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
He renamed Yoga Nidra to 'non-sleep deep rest' (NSDR) because people balked at the word 'yoga'; a free 10-minute version is on YouTube.
00:31:48Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
The major effect of testosterone, he says, is that 'it makes effort feel good' and amplifies existing personality rather than libido or aggression.
00:36:31Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Warns never to combine cyclic hyperventilation or Wim Hof breathing with breath holds near water due to shallow-water blackout drowning risk.
00:40:09Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
To get alert, lengthen and intensify inhales; to calm down, lengthen exhales (cyclic sighing).
00:41:42Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Previews a Dr. Becky Kennedy parenting episode: kids need boundaries to feel safe and to feel 'real' (seen).
00:43:45Live audience Q&A (no individual guest) · Huberman Lab · Jun 2024
Mice on calorie restriction lived 10% longer, but timing the same calories to the active phase pushed lifespan extension to 35%.
00:40:48Sachin Panda · Huberman Lab · Mar 2023
Researcher Joe Takahashi found that no known biomarker (A1c, glucose, cholesterol) predicted the longevity benefit of caloric restriction.
00:42:53Sachin Panda · Huberman Lab · Mar 2023
Panda reframes obesity: instead of asking why 60% of Americans are overweight, ask why 40% stay at a healthy weight.
01:01:33Sachin Panda · Huberman Lab · Mar 2023
Coffee's strong acid reflux is what created the culture of breakfast in Turkey, so coffee led to breakfast, not the other way around.
01:12:27Sachin Panda · Huberman Lab · Mar 2023

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