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What Andrew Huberman says about motivation & discipline

Everything Andrew Huberman and guests said about motivation & discipline across 40 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Motivation & Discipline

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Cites the 2010 Lally study showing it can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days to form the same habit, debunking the 21-day myth.
00:11:54Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
Admits 'limbic friction' is a term he coined himself, not found in the formal neuroscience or psychology literature.
00:13:57Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
Recommends placing your hardest, highest-friction habits in phase one (0-8 hours after waking) when dopamine and adrenaline are naturally elevated.
00:43:52Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
Contrarian claim: being rigid about exact times of day actually makes people less likely to stick to habits long-term; anchor to state, not the clock.
00:51:09Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
Presents a 21-day program where you list six habits but are expected to only complete four or five, building 'the habit of performing habits.'
01:19:20Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
The key to breaking a habit is engaging a positive replacement behavior in the moment immediately AFTER the slip, not before it.
01:37:14Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
Notes a meta-analysis finding that reminders and notifications work short-term but fail to predict long-term habit change.
01:34:36Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
Up to 70% of our waking behavior is estimated to be made up of habitual behavior.
00:07:43Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
The basal ganglia run 'go' (do) and 'no-go' (don't do) circuits, and most people are unbalanced toward one or the other.
00:32:18Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
The dorsolateral striatum is active at the very beginning and end of a habit, 'bracketing' it rather than running the habit itself.
00:33:53Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
If you expect a reward and break your own protocol mid-task, dopamine drops below the baseline you had before starting.
01:08:20Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
Most of the dopamine from an anticipated reward arrives during anticipation, not when the reward is actually received.
01:09:54Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
Dopamine is a molecule of motivation and drive, not a reward molecule; adrenaline is biochemically manufactured from dopamine.
01:16:41Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
A single visualization of the step-by-step procedure of a habit measurably raises the long-term likelihood of performing it.
00:25:57Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
Breaking habits relies on 'long-term depression,' a synapse-weakening process unrelated to mood-related depression.
01:30:20Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jan 2022
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
Reveals the premium channel now has three dollar-for-dollar donor matches, effectively quadrupling research funding.
00:01:35Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Recommends 45-50F as his go-to cold-plunge range and admits he never enjoys getting in, much preferring heat and the sauna.
00:17:47Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Warns that breathwork before cold water can suppress the gasp reflex and that people have blacked out and died doing it.
00:17:47Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Admits writing the bonus chapters of his book has been hard and that he uses a signed self-contract for each writing block.
00:22:29Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Says there is currently no clear pharmacology to specifically increase REM sleep.
00:32:19Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Concludes shilajit ranks low for boosting testosterone and that extra REM sleep beats it.
00:41:46Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Confirms he closed his animal lab and now focuses mainly on teaching and possible human vision studies.
00:48:32Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Mineral sunscreens with zinc oxide or titanium dioxide up to 25% are deemed safe by most dermatologists.
00:05:13Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
You do not have to get a sunburn to raise your skin cancer risk.
00:07:18Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Ingesting 5-30g of collagen daily (often 15-30g) with vitamin C shows moderate improvement in skin elasticity and plumpness.
00:08:20Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Red light or near-infrared panels for 10-15 minutes a day, five days a week over months can moderately improve skin appearance.
00:09:54Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Announcing your goals to supportive people can reduce follow-through; a signed self-contract works better.
00:21:25Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
During REM sleep the body cannot release adrenaline, allowing intense emotional dreams without a physical stress response.
00:27:42Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Wendy Suzuki's NYU lab found ~13 minutes of daily meditation significantly boosts working memory and focus.
00:34:55Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Random 10-second micro-gaps during learning trigger hippocampal replay at 20-30x speed, multiplying repetitions for free.
00:37:34Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Cardiovascular exercise just before studying boosts learning via dopamine, epinephrine and norepinephrine.
00:39:09Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
An extra 20 minutes of REM sleep serves testosterone better than taking shilajit.
00:44:22Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2024
Olympic sprinters say they do NOT scan their surroundings while racing - they hyperfocus on a single target like a spotlight.
00:03:07Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Teaching ordinary people the narrowed-focus tactic made them move 27% faster and report 17% less pain in a weighted exercise.
00:05:14Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Vision boards and dream boards actually do not work for achieving goals - colleague Gabriele Oettingen found they lower systolic blood pressure, signaling the body to relax.
00:08:52Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Effective goal-setting requires a third overlooked stage: mentally rehearsing the obstacles and your plan B/C/D in advance.
00:12:34Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal swimming blind because his coach had drilled him with leaking/removed goggles, so he just counted strokes.
00:14:38Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Giving people sugar-sweetened Kool-Aid (vs. Splenda) made a finish line appear closer - more body energy literally shrinks perceived distance.
00:19:46Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Balcetis's own memory of her drum practice was totally wrong - tracked data showed she had practiced far more and improved on a clear upward trajectory.
00:30:07Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Elite runners set visual sub-goals like 'the shorts on the person ahead' or a stop sign, then reset to the next target after passing.
00:03:39Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
The effective focus is a circular point of light on a target, not a horizontal line scanned left to right.
00:06:48Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Imagining how great life will be once a goal is met registers in the brain as a 'goal satisfied,' draining motivation to actually start.
00:09:23Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
A cardiologist friend noted people who announce they'll write a book often never do - the praise gives dopamine reward without the risk of criticism.
00:11:29Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
People who are overweight, chronically tired, elderly, or carrying heavy loads perceive distances as farther and hills as steeper.
00:17:44Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
The narrowed-focus tactic works for everyone - in shape or out of shape - because it just changes what you allocate attention to.
00:22:21Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
You can get the motivational benefit by changing your actual body state OR by placebo-ing yourself into believing it.
00:23:23Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Systolic blood pressure rising is a sign your body is readying to act, even for mental tasks like math problems.
00:09:53Dr. Emily Balcetis · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Huberman recounts being injected with Thorazine in the ER during a Giardia infection, feeling profound depression within minutes, then begging for l-DOPA to restore his dopamine.
00:34:19Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
He gives concrete dopamine multipliers: chocolate 1.5x, sex 2x, nicotine 2.5x, cocaine 2.5x, and amphetamine 10x above baseline.
00:42:11Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Core counterintuitive claim: after a dopamine peak, baseline drops below where it started, proportional to how high the peak was.
00:52:43Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
A friend's child quit ADHD treatment after a 30-day fast from phone, video games and social media restored his concentration and mood.
01:05:48Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Cold water exposure raised dopamine 2.5x above baseline (rivaling cocaine) but sustained for up to three hours instead of crashing.
01:32:42Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Huberman banned his phone from workouts for a year because layering music, podcasts and texting had drained the activity of pleasure.
01:16:14Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Giving children rewards for drawing made them draw less once rewards stopped, illustrating how extrinsic rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.
01:40:07Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
A 2017 Science paper showed oxytocin and social connection directly trigger dopamine release in the ventral tegmental area, not just the serotonin system.
02:10:15Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Dopamine is a neuromodulator that coordinates many neurons at once, unlike neurotransmitters that handle local communication.
00:12:25Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Adrenaline is biochemically manufactured from dopamine: l-DOPA to dopamine to noradrenaline to adrenaline.
00:38:30Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Caffeine only modestly raises dopamine but upregulates D2/D3 receptors, making you more responsive to dopamine's effects.
00:46:59Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Addiction is described as a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure.
01:00:33Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Caffeine increases the toxicity of MDMA by upregulating the same dopamine receptors.
01:24:12Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Yerba mate has shown neuroprotective effects specifically for dopaminergic neurons in animal studies.
01:23:10Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Deprivation states upregulate dopamine receptors, which is why food tastes far better when you are very hungry.
01:48:45Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
A study in Neuron found that hearing information that confirms your existing beliefs can itself trigger dopamine release.
01:53:25Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Two days off highly palatable processed foods is enough to make plain whole foods like broccoli taste delicious again.
01:54:28Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Viewing bright light between 10pm and 4am can reduce dopamine levels for several days afterward.
02:06:36Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2021
Contrary to popular belief, people perform best on focus-heavy cognitive tasks in complete silence, worst when listening to their favorite lyrical music.
00:54:22Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Listening to familiar lyrical music in the breaks between work bouts actually enhances learning, even though it harms learning during the work itself.
01:01:35Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Faster music (140-150+ BPM) reliably shifts mood happier even when the lyrics are complete nonsense, proving cadence, not lyrics, is the key variable.
01:14:32Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
The song 'Weightless' by Marconi Union produced up to 65% anxiety reduction in just 3 minutes, as effective as a commonly prescribed benzodiazepine.
01:29:23Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Listening to sad music for 13 minutes or more helps people process and move through grief, supporting the catharsis model.
01:25:16Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Children who learn instruments before age eight show up to 30% greater connectivity between brain hemispheres that persists into adulthood.
01:34:01Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
A roughly 10-15 minute dose of fast music before work or exercise is one of the best science-backed ways to boost motivation.
00:31:09Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Listening to 10-30 minutes of your favorite music daily increases heart rate variability around the clock, even during sleep.
00:20:15Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Music's cardiovascular benefits come not from directly changing heart rate but from subconsciously altering breathing patterns.
00:23:54Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Babies as young as 3 months old respond to music with rhythmic body movements, showing the response is innate, not learned.
00:16:35Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Roughly 90% of people listen to music to relax, 82% to feel happy, and about 46.5% to process emotions, most often sadness.
01:12:27Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Scientific evidence suggests music, singing, and dance evolved before spoken language as a fundamental form of human communication.
00:09:16Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
'Happy' music tends to relax the brow and widen the eyes, while sad music (under 60 BPM) activates the corrugator brow muscles.
01:18:37Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Low-frequency bass tones spaced apart trigger the familiar 'bass face' via a direct neural labeled line from ear to facial expression.
01:20:39Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
The threshold to shift your mood happier is about 9 minutes of fast, upbeat music.
01:23:15Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Simply foraging for and attentively listening to novel music expands the brain's capacity for neuroplasticity.
01:39:11Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
The top YouTube video of Marconi Union's 'Weightless' has 47 million views and is 10 hours long.
01:30:54Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Tharp's hard rule: 'If you don't work when you don't want to work, you're not going to be able to work when you do want to work.'
00:00:15Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
At 84 she now goes to see 'absolutely nothing'; an artist must deliberately stay isolated to work from a truthful place.
24:38Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Calls her recent very successful 60th-anniversary tour a burden: 'success is much harder to follow than failure.'
25:09Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Took up boxing in her early 40s with trainer Teddy Atlas to get into peak shape for an athletic dance piece.
01:18:17Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Reveals her personal-record deadlift was 227 pounds, more than twice her body weight.
01:20:54Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Says she eats a keto diet, cannot cook, and basically eats everything raw including meat.
01:54:04Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Tells aspiring dancers (and parents) not to do it: 'find something else if you possibly can.'
01:58:13Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Admits the internal standard her pianist mother instilled is 'unattainable and you're going to hate yourself a lot of the time.'
02:08:33Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Tharp says even someone with only an hour and a half a day can build a real creative practice by showing up consistently (e.g. 6:45 a.m.).
01:01:38Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Huberman cites Nobel physiologist Sherrington: 'the final common path is movement' — movement is what the nervous system is built for.
53:49Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
The neurons controlling human trunk movement are molecularly identical to those driving undulation in fish; proximal-limb neurons match fish fin neurons.
55:54Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
As a child Tharp was the family translator, understanding the private 'idioglossia' language her near-triplet siblings invented before speaking English.
01:39:36Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Growing up at her family's Foothill Drive-In Theater, she learned to read action and movement on screen with no sound.
01:37:28Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Amadeus was shot in a Prague opera house using the original under-stage mechanics, beeswax candles, and floor pollen that sparked when lit, recreating Mozart's era.
01:50:26Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Huberman notes published Science research shows humans can detect magnetic fields (magnetoreception) above chance.
01:12:33Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Tharp's mother changed the spelling of her name to 'Twyla' because she thought it would 'look better on a marquee,' chasing alliteration like Marilyn Monroe.
02:24:20Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
She breaks down classical ballet barre work — plié, tendu, rond de jambe, frappé, grand battement — noting most of ballet derives from fencing.
01:24:01Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
Distinguishes ritual (done to accomplish a goal), practice (get the job done, any way), and habit (dangerous — must be done the same way).
02:11:38Twyla Tharp · Huberman Lab · Dec 2025
On the day of the actual El Cap free solo, Honnold says he was '100 percent' and everything was perfect, though it took years to get there.
00:09:20Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Contrarian claim: almost no famous free soloists actually died free soloing; most died BASE jumping, wingsuiting, in car accidents, or freak events.
00:33:52Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
His preferred statistic: no one has ever died doing something cutting-edge in climbing.
00:34:23Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Reveals his father died of a heart attack at 55 when Alex was 19, shaping his whole 'everybody dies, do what you love' philosophy.
01:00:10Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Admits public speaking used to terrify him, proving his amygdala works normally and his calm is domain-specific, not a brain anomaly.
00:56:31Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Pushes back on the famous fMRI 'no fear response' study: he wasn't scared of black-and-white photos, but a snake in the scanner would have triggered fear.
00:57:33Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Reveals he basically stopped attending class at Berkeley to traverse Indian Rock daily, then dropped out after one year.
01:07:24Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Funded his early climbing-bum years on a couple hundred bucks a month in bonds from his late father plus the 'stolen' family minivan.
01:11:03Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Honnold memorized only the hardest third of the El Cap route move-for-move; some sections are easy enough a non-climber could do them.
00:05:10Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
He climbed El Cap only in spring shade, going at 4 a.m. for roughly eight hours of stable, cool conditions.
00:06:13Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Olympic-level competition climbers peak around ages 18-23, similar to gymnastics, but outdoor climbing rewards much longer careers.
00:17:10Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Honnold's friend, a 64-year-old UNLV philosophy professor, may be the oldest person to climb the elite 5.14 grade.
00:26:04Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Honnold's tip for beginners: treat climbing like a steep staircase, drive with your legs and use handholds only for balance, never pull yourself up.
00:27:06Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
As a younger climber he'd binge a whole TV season and an entire flat of Oreos on a rest day, then set a speed record the next.
00:43:51Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
He keeps no social media apps on his phone; a friend posts content for him so he avoids aimless scrolling.
00:49:10Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Honnold restarted doing muscle-ups in his home gym a couple months prior, having not done one since he was a teenager.
01:30:50Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
His endurance declines roughly linearly over 24-48 hour climbs, but he gets a noticeable energy jolt when the sun rises.
01:41:14Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Berkeley researchers found geckos climb walls using van der Waals molecular forces, not suction, via tiny feather-like pads on their toes.
01:43:54Alex Honnold · Huberman Lab · Sep 2025
Claims post-cold-exposure dopamine rises 100-200% and stays elevated for many hours, acting as a true antidepressant.
00:16:43Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Frames the prefrontal cortex as a 'coach' that loses control to the rest of the brain ('the players') under high stress.
00:21:30Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Says you can 'cheat your own neurochemistry' by reframing a failure as a win to tap the dopamine system.
00:22:02Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Explains gut microbiota make chemicals that become serotonin and dopamine in the brain, not gut serotonin itself.
00:33:10Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022

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