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What Andrew Huberman says about trauma & ptsd

Everything Andrew Huberman and guests said about trauma & ptsd across 49 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Challenges the famous Kubler-Ross five stages of grief as no longer fully supported by neuroimaging and modern research.
00:01:31Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Reveals that one brain area, the inferior parietal lobule, uniquely encodes physical distance, time spacing, and emotional closeness alike.
00:07:16Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Reframes grief as the process of unbraiding attachment from our brain's space-time predictions about a person.
00:09:49Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Links intense, prolonged yearning to having more oxytocin receptors in motivation and craving circuits, not greater capacity for love.
00:19:10Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
A bereavement writing study found no overall benefit until researchers split subjects by vagal tone, where only high-vagal-tone people benefited.
00:23:50Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Cites data showing people with complicated grief have significantly higher late-day (4pm and 9pm) cortisol levels.
00:28:28Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Recommends viewing morning sunlight as the single most powerful tool to regulate cortisol and support healthy grieving.
00:30:31Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Brain imaging shows grief activates motivation, craving, and pursuit circuits, overlapping with reward pathways.
00:02:35Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
A core function of attachment is the brain's ability to predict when and where you will see someone again.
00:08:17Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
After a loss the brain keeps making predictions the person will appear, called reverberatory activity, driving the yearning.
00:10:51Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Monogamous prairie voles work hard to reach a lost mate and have far more oxytocin receptors in the nucleus accumbens than non-monogamous voles.
00:17:05Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Counterfactual 'what if' thinking is an infinite, guilt-tied landscape that strengthens maladaptive bonds and should be avoided.
00:14:29Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
The bereavement study was published in Biological Psychology under the title 'Emotional disclosure for whom? A study of vagal tone in bereavement.'
00:21:45Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
In a healthy person cortisol peaks about 45 minutes after waking and drops to very low by 4pm and 9pm.
00:27:24Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Neuroplasticity, the literal rewiring that grieving requires, happens during deep sleep and non-sleep deep rest (NSDR).
00:32:36Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2026
Grief rarely responds to antidepressants while depression often does, showing they are distinct brain processes.
00:11:24Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Huberman cites research showing complicated grief activates the nucleus accumbens reward center, proving grief is a craving state.
00:18:17Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Recent research refutes the idea that everyone moves linearly through Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief.
00:14:33Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Huberman reads Richard Feynman's letter to his dead wife Arline, ending 'I don't know your new address,' as a perfect illustration of grief's space-time-closeness map.
00:40:21Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Trace cells fire to signal the absence of someone who should be at a location, explaining why you expect the deceased to walk through the door.
01:07:04Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
People with the highest pre-treatment adrenaline levels have the worst complicated-grief outcomes, so calming your baseline can inoculate you against it.
01:20:15Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
A vagal tone study found emotional-disclosure writing only helped people with high respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
01:37:52Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Complicated grief, which fails to resolve over a prolonged period, occurs in about one in ten people.
00:09:51Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Dopamine is not about feeling good but about putting us into a state of desiring and seeking things.
00:19:20Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
The inferior parietal lobule is uniquely activated by distance in space, time, and emotional closeness alike.
00:29:43Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Grief resembles a phantom limb; Huberman felt a touch on his neck for years after his graduate advisor died.
00:57:41Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Monogamous prairie voles have far more oxytocin receptors in the nucleus accumbens than non-monogamous ones.
01:11:50Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Exhales slow the heart rate and inhales speed it up, a relationship called respiratory sinus arrhythmia you can train.
01:32:41Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Complicated grievers show significantly higher 4pm and 9pm cortisol than non-complicated grievers.
01:46:13Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Viewing morning sunlight without sunglasses or windows regulates cortisol; doing it through glass is at least 50 times less effective.
01:48:49Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
Huberman kept reflexively expecting calls from his deceased advisor whose number still showed on his phone.
00:45:09Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · May 2022
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
Conti shares that his brother died by suicide and he initially felt responsible, which drove him into therapy and eventually into mental health work.
00:30:48Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
He admits he had a business career and was not acculturated to therapy until he realized 'I'm not okay.'
00:31:21Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Claims the very thing you fear bringing to consciousness because it might overtake you is exactly the thing you must look at.
00:39:51Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Frames hidden trauma as an emotional 'abscess', better walled off than spreading, but not a state of health until drained.
00:57:31Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Argues people who only look forward are like sprinters who leave the blocks too fast and sprawl onto the track.
01:09:38Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Gives a nine-word answer to compartmentalized struggle: 'Don't make yourself special in ways that hurt you.'
02:10:41Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Distinguishes affect, feeling, and emotion to explain how anger is aroused, related to self, then projected onto others.
02:25:04Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Summarizes the entire framework in two words: 'be curious.'
02:36:53Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Huberman cites data that even short daily meditations can improve mood, reduce anxiety, and improve focus and memory.
00:04:10Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
States yoga nidra can raise dopamine in certain brain areas by up to 60%.
00:04:44Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Huberman describes a liminal between-sleep-and-awake state where insights arise while doing mundane tasks like dishes.
00:25:25Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Conti notes you can't recall a name by forcing it; the answer surfaces only once you stop consciously searching.
00:27:33Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
'You ruminated about it for ten years', rumination runs the conscious mind in circles and prevents understanding.
00:28:06Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Describes the unconscious mind as a biological supercomputer the size of a house doing millions of operations per second.
00:56:27Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Introduces the 'character structure' as a nest in which the self settles and grows.
01:24:02Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Lists the function-of-self cupboards: self-awareness, defense mechanisms in action, salience, behavior, and strivings.
01:34:45Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Frames altruism as a healthy defense mechanism whose endpoint is simply doing good.
01:39:36Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Uses the analogy of nine roads around a home: if you can drive eight, the ninth requires the same skills.
02:13:53Dr. Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
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
Conti calls most popular relationship advice 'complete nonsense' and dismisses education, shared hobbies, and love languages as 'utterly irrelevant' to compatibility.
00:35:33Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Reframes the 'trauma bond' as not inherently bad—two people can bond around shared trauma in a way that makes them both healthier.
00:48:24Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Declares there is 'no such thing as a repetition compulsion'—repeated bad relationships are choices that can be changed, not compulsions.
01:20:25Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Claims a small percentage with narcissistic character structure 'does most of the damage on Earth,' driven by envy.
01:53:25Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Conti personally admits he feels attachment insecurity 'about just about everything' due to sudden painful losses in his life.
01:32:57Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Tells the story of a woman trapped in cyclic abuse who only needed a few hundred dollars for a carburetor to escape.
01:46:22Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Insists the reflex in conflict is usually NOT mentalizing—people think they understand the other when they actually don't.
02:43:56Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
A friend told Huberman his closest family relationships are 'all kind of transactional'; Conti and Huberman push back hard on that view.
02:11:27Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Huberman cites data that dopamine in certain brain areas can rise up to 60% after a Yoga Nidra session.
00:04:14Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Conti says an undergraduate power-dynamics political science course helped him more as a psychiatrist than medical school in that domain.
02:00:20Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Introduces 'the issue of the non-issue'—covert power dynamics where one partner can't raise a grievance for fear of retribution.
02:00:51Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Distinguishes jealousy (benign, motivating) from envy (destructive: bringing the other down feels as good as raising oneself).
01:54:29Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Uses a sex-drive mismatch (a '2' paired with an '8') to show how a generative 'five in the middle' can be better, not a compromise.
00:56:18Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
'Kindergarten'—Conti's one-word summary of good relationship skills: generosity, kindness, letting things go.
02:19:56Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Conti says the happiest people he sees are givers; goodness in the self causes success and happiness, not the reverse.
02:07:12Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
'Anytime you have a closed system without accountability, you're just rolling the dice' for oppression.
01:50:10Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
'Broken compass' metaphor: guiding yourself with a faulty map leads you to others with broken maps, leaving you both wandering.
02:57:11Paul Conti · Huberman Lab · Sep 2023
Core thesis: you can't just eliminate fears, you have to replace them with a new positive event.
00:01:00Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
Fear learning can happen via one-trial learning, unlike Pavlov's dogs which need many pairings.
00:15:05Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
Each retelling of a trauma in rich detail progressively diminishes the physiological anxiety response.
00:19:48Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
Huberman highlights ketamine-assisted and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as emerging PTSD treatments.
00:23:27Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
Describes his lab's cyclic hyperventilation breathing protocol as a low/zero-cost self-directed intervention.
00:28:08Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
Recommends saffron (30 mg) and inositol (18 g) as supplements studied for reducing anxiety.
00:31:50Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
The amygdala (means 'almond') is part of a larger amygdaloid complex with 12 to 14 areas.
00:07:47Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
The threat center projects to the dopamine reward system (nucleus accumbens), which can be leveraged to wire in new positive memories.
00:09:54Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
Fear feels the same to everyone; the only thing you can negotiate is what it means and whether you persist, pause, or retreat.
00:11:27Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
MDMA uniquely raises both dopamine and serotonin simultaneously, a state not seen under normal conditions.
00:26:36Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
12 studies indicate orally ingested saffron at 30 mg reliably reduces anxiety on the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale.
00:31:50Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
Inositol at 18 g daily for a month had anxiety-reducing potency on par with many prescription antidepressants.
00:32:22Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
Regular, trusting social connection of any kind is highly beneficial to working through fear and trauma.
00:22:55Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2025
A citizen-science microdosing study found microdosing did not compellingly beat placebo; belief that you got a dose drove most of the effect.
00:23:16Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Increased global brain connectivity from psilocybin persists after the trip, seen the next day and three weeks later, correlating with symptom improvement.
01:00:34Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Carhart-Harris reports over 70% of treatment-resistant depression patients get relief, far above typical antidepressants.
01:14:15Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
A single 25mg psilocybin session produced measurable anatomical brain changes (white matter tract integrity) resembling a younger, developing brain.
01:24:48Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Pre-trial expectancy predicted response to escitalopram but NOT to psilocybin, undercutting the idea that psychedelic therapy is just a placebo effect.
01:39:36Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Most treatment-resistant depression patients eventually relapse, and they cannot legally repeat the treatment that worked, which he calls 'a sick joke.'
02:11:13Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
MDMA therapy for PTSD is years ahead of psilocybin; MAPS completed two phase III trials with ~67% remission, with approval possibly this year.
02:23:22Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
The word 'psychedelic' was coined by Humphry Osmond, who beat Aldous Huxley's term, with the ditty 'to fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.'
00:07:48Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Roughly 1 gram of magic mushrooms contains about 10 milligrams of psilocybin (~1% by mass).
00:27:27Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Psychedelic therapy uses eye masks and lyric-free music; the music's emotional role has never been properly tested despite being a staple of every successful trial.
00:31:10Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
The guiding mantra 'trust, let go, be open' is attributed to Bill Richards at Johns Hopkins.
00:39:33Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
In healthy-volunteer trials, a 1mg psilocybin dose is used as a placebo because subjects feel nothing and EEG shows no change.
01:08:01Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Anorexia nervosa is the most deadly of all psychiatric illnesses; an ongoing psilocybin trial showed improved weight at long follow-up.
01:11:08Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
DMT is described as a 'rocket ship'; it is an order of magnitude less potent than psilocybin but produces wilder experiences at standard doses.
01:58:07Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
A study found cocaine inflates the ego while psychedelics dissolve it, cleanly separating the two drug classes on opposite axes.
02:07:31Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Fentanyl lacing now shows up in street MDMA and psychedelics, a serious danger for those using uncertain sources.
02:14:22Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Carhart-Harris argues psychiatric drugs haven't fundamentally improved since the 1950s, making psychedelic therapy a true paradigm shift.
02:31:16Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Dr. K's third-year-resident patient had done six months of therapy just venting weekly, revealing that talking about feelings (especially for men) is often not enough.
00:33:10Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Dr. K spent 7 years training to become a monk before becoming a psychiatrist, and pushed back on Western models of the mind.
00:42:00Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
During his father's funeral he touched the cold body, felt grief, yet found the witnessing self at peace: 'the body is grieving, but I'm not grieving.'
01:07:25Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Cites a first case report of AI-induced psychosis: patient recovered on antipsychotics, relapsed into psychosis only after resuming AI use.
02:03:32Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Recounts a case of someone who killed their mother and died by suicide after an AI reinforced their paranoid delusions about her.
02:05:04Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Predicts that in ~60 years society will talk about AI the way we now talk about nicotine and tobacco.
02:10:13Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Admits he was the 'failure to launch' archetype: 5.5 years to graduate with a 2.4 GPA, started med school at 28, couldn't support himself until residency at 32.
02:32:23Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Reveals he is a trained Reiki healer, crystal healer and Bach-flower practitioner but won't promote them because he sees no scientific basis.
02:56:58Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
Distress tolerance, perfectionism and rumination are 'transdiagnostic factors' that raise risk across many mental illnesses, and distress tolerance is collapsing.
00:12:59Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026
A neutral observer correctly detects flirting only about 30% of the time (studies range 24-42%); ambiguity in flirting is a feature, not a bug.
00:23:20Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) · Huberman Lab · Mar 2026

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