Experts Productivity & Performance Andrew Huberman

Andrew Huberman · 54 episodes · 904 sourced insights

What Andrew Huberman says about productivity & performance

Everything Andrew Huberman and guests said about productivity & performance across 54 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Productivity & Performance

In their own words

Jarvis argues there is no separate 'language module' in the brain; the speech-production and auditory pathways themselves carry language's algorithms.
00:09:25Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Speech pathways evolved out of brain pathways that control body movement, which is why we gesture with our hands even on the phone.
00:13:39Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Genetic data from Neanderthal and Denisovan fossils suggests they had spoken language, possibly dating it back 500,000 to a million years.
00:20:33Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
FOXP2 and similar mutations causing human speech deficits produce similar deficits when introduced into vocal-learning birds, showing deep convergence.
00:25:18Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Only vocal-learning species can learn to dance; their dance circuits are embedded in the same circuits that enable learned vocalization.
00:51:50Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Reading silently activates your speech motor pathway and laryngeal muscles, so you literally 'speak' what you read inside your head.
01:13:15Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Brain-to-text work (Eddie Chang) plus the no-language-module view implies thoughts could eventually be read and even transmitted wirelessly.
01:34:24Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
The first error-free, complete human Telomere-to-Telomere genome revealed 'dark matter' regulatory regions specialized in vocal-learning species.
01:44:51Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Dogs can understand several hundred human words and great apes thousands, but neither can speak a single word.
00:10:30Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Hummingbirds hum with their wings and sing with their syrinx, and some snap their wings in unison with their song.
00:25:49Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Some speech-circuit genes work by being turned OFF, removing repulsive molecules so new neural connections can form.
00:33:36Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
The larynx contains the fastest-firing muscles in the body, requiring special calcium-buffering and heat-shock proteins to avoid neuron toxicity.
00:34:06Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Spoken language likely evolved first for singing and emotional mate-attraction before being repurposed for abstract communication.
00:47:11Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Humans stay more neurally immature for life via an extra copy of the gene srGAP2, keeping our brains more juvenile and plastic.
00:38:17Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Writing engages at least four brain circuits at once: visual, speech-production, auditory, and hand motor.
01:14:19Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Jarvis discovered stuttering in songbirds tied to basal ganglia damage; birds recover via neurogenesis in ways humans cannot.
01:22:22Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Dark and light human skin color each evolved independently multiple times, repeatedly hitting the same melanin genes.
01:48:35Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
Jarvis sequences genomes for conservation groups like Revive & Restore and Colossal to help resurrect the passenger pigeon and woolly mammoth.
01:47:30Dr. Erich Jarvis · Huberman Lab · Aug 2022
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
Huberman champions NSDR (non-sleep deep rest), citing University of Copenhagen studies showing it replenishes brain dopamine.
00:04:45Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Describes a dose-dependent placebo effect study where being TOLD you got a higher nicotine dose changed cognition and measured brain activity even at zero dose.
00:07:52Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Admits he took LSD and psilocybin 'all too young,' calls them bad experiences, and says he does not recommend them.
00:20:24Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Reveals he participated in two clinical trials of high-dose psilocybin (over two grams, taken twice with therapist support).
00:21:59Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Explains the famous 'MDMA puts holes in your brain' paper was retracted because researchers accidentally dosed subjects with methamphetamine.
00:27:12Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
States that ketamine and the demonized drug PCP are the same compound.
00:30:19Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Discloses the podcast funds human-only studies of compounds like DMT (Robin Carhart-Harris's lab) and an eating-disorders lab at Columbia.
00:32:52Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Keep naps shorter than 90 minutes so they don't disrupt nighttime sleep; skip them entirely if they do.
00:04:13Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
In nicotine cognition studies, what subjects believed they were dosed with changed both performance and recorded brain activity.
00:09:54Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Optimal learning difficulty is roughly 85% correct trials and 15% errors.
00:17:12Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
The agitation and frustration of failing is the neurochemical stimulus for neuroplasticity; the actual rewiring happens during sleep and rest.
00:18:13Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Most psychedelic trials use psilocybin over LSD partly because an LSD trip is far longer than a clinician's workday; ibogaine runs about 22 hours.
00:23:00Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Kentucky directed $40 million of its opioid settlement toward ibogaine trials.
00:24:05Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
MDMA-assisted therapy shows up to 60-67% remission of PTSD with proper dosing and support.
00:27:43Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
The best low-cost way to support the gut-brain axis is one to four daily servings of low-sugar fermented foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, or kefir.
00:38:00Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Sleep regularity matters: aim to keep bedtime within plus or minus one hour, about five nights a week.
00:41:39Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Chinese focus-training studies improve attention by having people fixate on a visual target for one to three minutes before working.
00:45:46Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Claims that after puberty the human brain adds very few, if any, new neurons, pushing back on popular 'exercise grows new neurons' stories.
00:03:08Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Calls the idea that 'every experience changes your brain' one of the biggest lies, saying adult brains only change with selective attention.
00:08:29Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Identifies the exact recipe for adult plasticity: epinephrine plus acetylcholine from two brain sources guarantees the brain will change.
00:13:39Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Reveals a Nobel Prize-winning colleague chews Nicorette while working for alertness and focus.
00:19:23Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
States that Adderall does not increase focus, it only increases alertness and does not touch the acetylcholine system.
00:20:55Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Advises that telling someone to 'look me in the eye and listen' is one of the worst ways to get them to actually hear you.
00:25:11Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Reveals the real secret: neuroplasticity doesn't occur during wakefulness, it occurs during sleep.
00:27:12Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Blind people often show a much higher incidence of perfect pitch because the visual cortex gets repurposed for hearing and Braille.
00:05:18Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Epinephrine and adrenaline are chemically identical; it's called adrenaline in the body and epinephrine in the brain.
00:13:39Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Nicotine is named after the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor it binds to; receptors come in muscarinic and nicotinic types.
00:18:52Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Huberman tried Nicorette himself and found it made him too jittery to focus.
00:19:53Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
The core principle of focus: mental focus follows visual focus, so training visual focus improves cognitive focus.
00:20:24Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Just 60 to 120 seconds of narrowing your visual focus on your work can prime the brain areas needed to learn.
00:24:08Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Optimal learning happens in roughly 90-minute ultradian bouts, with the first 5 to 10 minutes as a warm-up.
00:26:11Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
A 20-minute NSDR protocol or shallow nap right after learning can boost retention more than a good night's sleep alone, per a Cell Reports study.
00:28:45Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
In REM sleep, both serotonin and norepinephrine/epinephrine are essentially at zero, one of the few times in life adrenaline is fully absent.
00:08:49Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
REM sleep is reframed as 'self-induced therapy' where we relive emotional events without the chemistry of fear.
00:11:24Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Huberman links EMDR and ketamine trauma treatments to the same emotion-uncoupling mechanism as REM sleep.
00:18:14Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Admits he initially thought EMDR 'was crazy' as a vision and stress scientist before the research convinced him.
00:20:18Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Lateralized (side-to-side) eye movements suppress amygdala activity, but vertical eye movements do not.
00:21:52Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
You never actually forget a traumatic event, you only remove its emotional load and potency.
00:23:24Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Consistency of sleep duration matters as much or more than total sleep, six hours nightly beats wildly varying nights.
00:30:06Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Sleep is organized into roughly 90-minute ultradian cycles regardless of total sleep length.
00:01:01Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
The more total sleep you get across the night, the higher the proportion of REM sleep you accumulate.
00:02:03Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Sleepwalking typically occurs during slow-wave sleep because the body is not paralyzed then.
00:05:45Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
During REM sleep the body experiences atonia, full muscular paralysis, while the eyes move and the mind hallucinates.
00:09:20Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
REM sleep replays the exact neural firing patterns from daytime spatial navigation, work pioneered by Matt Wilson at MIT.
00:13:59Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
EMDR was developed by psychologist Francine Shapiro after noticing a stressful memory felt lighter while walking through forests behind Stanford.
00:18:46Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Ketamine blocks the NMDA receptor to prevent long-term potentiation, stopping intense emotion from binding to a fresh traumatic memory.
00:25:28Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Per Dr. Sarah McKay, many emotional effects of menopause stem from temperature-driven sleep disruption rather than hormones directly.
00:29:04Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Resistance exercise increases the percentage of slow-wave sleep via growth hormone release, unlike aerobic exercise.
00:31:09Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
Alcohol and THC create pseudo-sleep that disrupts the normal sequencing and depth of slow-wave and REM sleep.
00:32:10Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024
A Science paper found that men who smelled women's emotional tears had significantly reduced testosterone and dampened brain areas linked to sexual arousal.
00:17:25Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Inhaling itself raises brain arousal and learning capacity while exhaling causes a dip, independent of what you smell.
00:31:07Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Taste receptors for sweet and umami are expressed not just on the tongue but in the gut and even on the ovaries and testes.
01:28:27Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Charles Zuker's lab swapped sweet and bitter receptors in mice, making them avoid sugar water and avidly drink bitter solutions.
01:41:14Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
A Weizmann study found people almost always touch their eyes within seconds of a handshake, subconsciously sampling the other person's chemicals.
01:53:48Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Carnivores like tigers lack sweet receptors entirely but have umami sensitivity at least 5,000 times that of humans.
01:22:39Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Smelling salts (ammonia) work by triggering the innate nose-to-amygdala fear pathway, jolting you awake like six espressos at once.
00:35:47Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Olfactory neurons are unique in the brain because they are continually replenished throughout life, roughly every three to four weeks.
00:44:08Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Concussion severity and recovery can be partly gauged by how fully a person regains their sense of smell after a head injury.
00:50:37Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
A single gene variant determines whether microwave popcorn smells pleasant or like vomit, and whether you can smell asparagus in urine.
01:00:07Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
The high-school diagram of a tongue map with separate taste zones is complete fiction; receptors are intermixed across the tongue.
01:05:58Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Bitter receptors connect directly to the brainstem gag reflex to stop us swallowing poisons.
01:09:35Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Diego Bohorquez's lab showed gut neurons sense fat, sugar, and amino acids and signal dopamine via the vagus nerve, driving cravings independent of taste.
01:15:22Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Pandas have no umami receptors but heightened sweet receptors, while their carnivore counterparts are the reverse.
01:24:14Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
The Coolidge effect, recovery of mating vigor when a novel partner is introduced, runs in both males and females and is purely odor-driven.
01:43:18Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
There is no essential carbohydrate or sugar, but everyone needs essential amino acids and fatty acids to survive.
01:09:03Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
The cringe-inducing feeling of fingernails on a chalkboard is the touch and visceral component, not just the sound.
01:33:22Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Jun 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
Newport says putting two or three people at the same whiteboard taking turns yields a 20-30% boost in concentration on hard math proofs.
00:16:34Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport reveals his book How to Become a Straight-A Student was built on 'active recall' - replicating information from scratch as if teaching a class without notes.
00:26:29Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport argues deep work is not flow; it is deliberate practice, and he wrote an essay titled 'the father of deliberate practice disowns flow.'
00:39:58Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport reframes phone attachment as a moderate behavioral addiction rather than a cyborg extension, comparing the feeling to a gambler away from chips.
00:46:43Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport states unrestricted internet use pre-puberty is risky and the emerging standard is giving devices around age 16, post-puberty.
01:03:51Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport's number-one tool: a pull-based workload system keeping only two or three active tasks while everything else waits in an ordered queue.
02:22:40Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport's third tool is a shutdown ritual with a demonstrative anchor phrase ('schedule shutdown complete') used as cognitive behavioral therapy against work rumination.
02:38:42Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport predicts a coming 'cognitive Revolution' in knowledge work that could unlock trillions in GDP by taking workers' brains seriously.
02:11:20Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport keeps a phone-free library with a custom desk built by a Maine company that makes desks for college libraries, plus a fireplace for reading.
00:09:18Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport found seven peer-reviewed papers or funded grants traced back to the ideas in a single $70 archival lab notebook.
00:20:46Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Rescue Time data on email and Slack checks showed a median interval between checks of 5 minutes and a mode of just 1 minute.
00:51:56Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport says he only has about four to four-and-a-half good hours a day of producing high-value brain work.
00:50:53Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Newport ran an informal experiment with 1,600 newsletter readers who turned off all social media for 30 days; those who aggressively pursued alternatives succeeded.
01:14:06Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Huberman describes using great TV series like The Wire as a 'tool' to distract scientific competitors during a research battle.
01:51:32Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
At a law firm, disagreeable employees got asked to do less non-promotable work, accidentally fast-tracking the most disagreeable to partnership.
02:15:27Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Microsoft data showed a 22% increase in meetings from 2020 to now, and the number kept creeping up even after the shift to hybrid work.
02:21:09Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Software developers were the only knowledge sector with a successful pre-pandemic remote work track record, due to highly structured agile workflows.
02:19:06Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
Huberman recounts logging 102-hour work weeks as a grad student to beat a rumored 100-hour worker, ending up with the flu and an autoimmune condition.
02:14:25Cal Newport · Huberman Lab · Mar 2024
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

What Andrew Huberman recommends for productivity & performance

Affiliate link — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

recommended in 13 eps · 3 experts Book

Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke

recommended in 13 eps · 2 experts Product

Magnesium threonate

recommended in 10 eps · 2 experts Book

The Molecule of More

Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long

recommended in 9 eps · 2 experts Product

Tongkat Ali (Solaray)

Solaray

recommended in 7 eps · 2 experts Book

Outlive

Peter Attia

recommended in 6 eps · 3 experts Product

Magnesium L-Threonate

recommended in 6 eps · 2 experts Book

Deep Work

Cal Newport

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts Product

Theanine (L-theanine)

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts Product

L-theanine

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts Book

Mastery

Robert Greene

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts Book

A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan

recommended in 4 eps · 3 experts