Andrew Huberman recommends Sam Sheridan's book A Fighter's Heart, which Huberman says compares sparring to an intimate one-night stand with someone you barely know.
“There's a great book by a guy named Sam Sheridan, uh, called A Fighter's Heart.”
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- 5 Dec 2022Using Caffeine to Optimize Mental & Physical Performance2h 16m
- 27 Dec 2021The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair2h 5m
- 16 Aug 2021Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke1h 58m
- 2 Aug 2021The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep | Dr. Matt Walker3h 1m
- 3 Sep 2026Andrew Huberman: The Real Reason You Can't Get Deep Sleep & Wake Up Exhausted2h 20m
Andrew Huberman says a famous photo of Oliver Sacks writing outside a train station actually showed him squeezing in writing between meetings, rather than being inspired.
“Turns out, that was an instance where he was going between meetings and he had so much to do, that he was just cramming some writing in.”
El Capitan, also called El Cap, is a nearly 3,000-foot climb in Yosemite National Park, according to Andrew Huberman.
“El Capitan, also called El Cap, which is a nearly 3,000-foot climb in Yosemite National Park”
Andrew Huberman says rally driver Ken Block died in a snowmobiling accident.
“unfortunately died in a snowmobiling accident. So something very, like, kinda conventional for his daily life”
Andrew Huberman says skateboarder Danny Way, who jumped the Great Wall of China, was among the first skaters to do neck training after breaking his neck surfing.
“Danny Way, who jumped the Great Wall of China, he was the kind of first per person in skateboarding to”
Andrew Huberman says his lab used VR to study fear and that he went to Guadalupe with Michael Muller in 2016 and 2017 for cage-exit dives with great white sharks.
“he took me down to Guadalupe, we did 2 times, so we went down there 2016 and 2017”
Andrew Huberman says Andre Agassi's memoir Open tells the story of his father pushing him to play tennis.
“it was basically like the a story of his dad pushing him to play a game he did not wanna play”
Andrew Huberman credits Pavel Tsatsouline with a strength method of lifting a weight for about three reps, well short of failure, over many more sets.
“take a a weight that you can maybe do 6 or 7, maybe 8 reps with, and do 3 repetitions, set down and just do many more sets”
Andrew Huberman says geckos climb using van der Waals forces through feather-like toe pads, not suction, after a Berkeley lab found they could climb in a vacuum.
“that they use what are called van der Waals forces, which is the exchange of molecules between the surface and those petals”
David Anderson of Caltech and his former postdoc Dayu Lin found a small set of neurons in the mouse ventromedial hypothalamus that triggers rage when stimulated, according to Andrew Huberman.
“David Anderson at Caltech has been studying hypothalamic circuits, and he and his former postdoc, Da-Yu Lin, discovered a small, tiny, tiny collection of neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus”
Andrew Huberman says the Huberman Lab podcast launched in January 2021.
“We've been we launched in January 2021. No, no premonition could have seen this”
Andrew Huberman says Luigi Mangione's last tweet was a podcast cover from Huberman's episode with Jonathan Haidt.
“This Luigi Mangione's last tweet was a podcast cover of of my episode with Jonathan Haidt”
Andrew Huberman recounts that Joe Rogan, after a dispute over stolen jokes at the Comedy Store, started what became his podcast with Brian Redban and others.
“He went home, he popped open his laptop, and he and Brian Redman and a few other folks started what eventually became the Joe Rogan podcast.”
Andrew Huberman says Stanford colleague Anna Lembke, author of Dopamine Nation, heads Stanford's dual diagnosis addiction center.
“Anna Lembke, who wrote the book Dopamine Nation. She's the head of our dual diagnosis addiction center.”
Andrew Huberman recommends the book The Courage to Be Disliked, which is based on Adlerian psychology and written by Japanese authors.
“It was actually written by a Japanese author, I think they're two Japanese authors.”
Andrew Huberman says neurosurgeon Robert Heath in the 1970s and 80s let three subjects self-stimulate brain regions, and all three pressed a lever most for a midline thalamic site linked to frustration and mild anger.
“Robert Heath, a very controversial neurosurgeon from the, um, like 70s and 80s, did these experiments of stimulating in different parts of the brain, allowing people to self-stimulate different parts of their brain.”
Andrew Huberman introduces Esther Perel as the author of the best-selling books Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs.
“She's also the author of best-selling books such as Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs.”
Andrew Huberman announces that Esther Perel has released a new course on intimacy.
“I'm also pleased to announce that Esther Perel has just released a new course on intimacy.”
Esther Perel names fundamental attribution error as a common bias in which people explain their own behavior by circumstance and others' behavior by character.
“Another cognitive bias that is very common is, uh, is fundamental attribution error.”
Esther Perel says she worked in an addiction center for two years.
“So I worked in an addiction center for for two years”
Esther Perel says she is trained as a systemically oriented family therapist, which means looking at how different systems interact.
“I'm trained as a systemically oriented family therapist. And that means that you're looking at the interaction of different systems.”
Esther Perel says that sexuality may be a parallel narrative to a relationship rather than a metaphor for it, because improving couples' relationships often changed nothing in the bedroom.
“maybe sexuality is not a metaphor of the relationship, maybe sexuality is a parallel narrative to the relationship.”
Esther Perel says the idea that love and desire relate but also conflict was foundational to Mating in Captivity, her first book.
“That was one of the foundational ideas for mating in captivity, my first book.”
Esther Perel cites psychologist Michael Bader's work on why some people find it hard to experience love and desire at the same time.
“Michael Bader's work, that makes it difficult for some people to experience love and desire at the same time.”
Esther Perel says she wrote an entire book about infidelity, meaning what happens when desire goes looking elsewhere.
“I wrote an entire book about in about infidelity, as in what happens when desire goes looking elsewhere.”
Esther Perel says she has seen a lot of infidelity in happy relationships and that it is not always a symptom of a flawed relationship.
“I have seen a lot of infidelity in happy relationships. It's not always a symptom of a flawed relationship”
Esther Perel says a person's emotional history is inscribed in how they make love, which she uses to introduce the idea of an erotic blueprint.
“tell me how you were loved, and I will tell you how you make love.”
Esther Perel describes herself as a child of survivors and says this shaped her interest in how people live fully rather than merely survive.
“a child of survivors I wanted to see people who how do they continue to live not just how do they stay alive”
Esther Perel recommends a book about apology by Harriet Lerner.
“a beautiful book by Harriet Lerner about apology that I often recommend in these situations”
A 2004 yeast study by Brian Kennedy and Matt Kaeberlein found caloric restriction and SIR2 overexpression each extended lifespan and together extended it further, indicating parallel pathways.
“If you calorically restricted them, they lived longer. If you overexpress SIRT2, they lived longer. If you did both, they lived even longer. It was additive.”
Andrew Huberman says the FDA decided NMN could no longer be sold as a supplement because a clinical trial had been started on it.
“the FDA decided that it should not be sold over the counter, um, anymore because there was a clinical trial initiated on NMN”
Jonathan Haidt says the iPhone came out in 2007 but that most American teenagers still used flip phones in early 2010.
“The iPhone came out in 2007, um, but they don't mostly have them.”
Haidt says that by 2015 most Americans, and almost all teenagers, had a smartphone with a front-facing camera.
“By 2015, the great majority of Americans, and certainly teens, have a smartphone with a front-facing camera.”
Haidt says Instagram was the first major social media platform that required a smartphone, whereas earlier platforms were web-based.
“The girls are mostly on Instagram, which was the first social media platform that you had to be on a smartphone for.”
Haidt says US survey data on girls' anxiety, depression and self-harm stayed flat until about 2012 and then rose sharply.
“So the lines are pre pretty flat until around 2012, and then all of a sudden, the lines for girls go up like a hockey stick.”
Haidt cites Pew and Gallup data showing American young people spend about five hours a day on social media.
“young people in America are now spending about five hours a day just on social media, just social media.”
Haidt says the attack on Pearl Harbor did more to unify Americans than any other event in modern history.
“Pearl Harbor did more for American co coherence than anything else in history in modern history.”
Haidt says Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone documented the loss of social capital in America.
“robert putnam wrote about this in bowling alone the the the the loss of social capital”
Haidt says FBI statistics show only about 100 to 150 true stranger kidnappings a year in the United States.
“I found according to FBI statistics, there's only about a hundred to 150 true kidnappings a year in our whole country.”
Haidt says Simon Baron-Cohen's autism research indicates prenatal testosterone shapes the brain and shifts people from empathizing toward systemizing.
“Baron Cohen's work on autism shows that, um, uh, you know, be because of prenatal effects, prenatal testosterone changing the body, changing the brain.”