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Andrew Huberman

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“To do these mile repeats. That's a pretty large chunk of exercise movement. But if you kind of thread through the middle of all that, what you end up with is some decent strength building protocols, some decent hypertrophy, some cardiovascular training that establishes the so-called A base or a so-called base. So you're not going to get really good at anything. You're not going to become a marathoner this way, an optimizing marathon. You're not going to optimize powerlifting. You're not going to optimize hypertrophy. But for the typical person, 75%.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You ask yourself, how long did that take? Let's say it took eight minutes. Then you walk or rest for eight minutes, then you run another mile as fast as you can, and then you rest for the equivalent period. And you do that one to three times once per week. And so as an all-around fitness program, you could collapse this into something where you say, okay, you're going to work out with the weights for about an hour every other day. Maybe take two days off every once in a while, maybe not. You're going to do six to 15 repetitions. You're going to push to failure on some of those, not all, because some of those are designed to build more strength. You're not going to failure and heavier. Some are designed for hypertrophy, higher rep, and going to failure. And then on off days, you're going to jog for 30 or 45 minutes. But for two days a week, you're either at the end of your jog or whatever, you're going to do some all-out sprints for 90 seconds and then rest and repeat. And for another day, you're going.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's for, yeah, it actually has some carryover effects on endurance if you're doing the other stuff. And then he also said one day a week to do this workout and I haven't done it yet. Maybe do it tomorrow be fun, which is you run a mile.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was doing it. I was thinking to myself, okay, Andy, that's the 90 second sprint because I got to the security line. I finally got TSC free.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Andy informed me that to build endurance while building strength and maintaining some muscle size or even building muscle size, I would be wise to take one day a week and add to that all out max heart rate work for 90 seconds at least. So do 90 seconds then rest and then maybe do another 90 second all-out sprint. I almost missed my flight going from Los Angeles to Austin. I did that all-out sprint in the airport yesterday. So I actually think it's done for me.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Still to flow in one direction. You can't just cinch it off, or you'll potentially kill yourself if you get a clot or you do it wrong. So get the appropriate cuffs that are out there. And then for endurance, I learned something really cool. So I work out basically, I go to the gym every other day on average. Three or four days a week, I do that, but generally not two days in a row. It's workout. Next day I'll do cardio. Next day, and the cardio for me is always a 30 to 45 minute jog, kind of zone two cardio.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“High volume, but you have to go to failure or beyond in order to stimulate growth. Why does it work at such a great range of repetitions? Well, there apparently are three ways that you stimulate hypertrophy and maybe more. One is tissue microdamage to the tissue. The other is through some sort of tension-based changes in the molecular gene programs of cells that lead to protein synthesis that don't that are distinct from damage and the other are metabolic effects of like high repetition work of superfusion of the muscle with blood. We know that third category exists because people are now doing this blood restriction training where they cuff off a muscle and they'll use a really light weight. I've done these before. You can use a five pound weight and do curls with this and you're in pain and the muscles are swelling up with blood. It does lead to hypertrophy. But in general, you're not sore. You're not doing tissue damage. And by the way, don't just turn the kid off a muscle because you have to use the proper cuffs because you need the blood.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What Andy taught me is that people who are training mostly for strength can do these low rep type regimens frequently because most of the adaptation is neural and because you're not pushing to failure in most cases, you don't get that sore. And so it's the motor neurons getting the muscle fibers to contract more intensely or with more efficiency in other ways that's leading to these strength gains. And this is why powerlifters can train every day or five days a week or four days a week. For hypertrophy, I learned from Andy that the repetition range can be pretty broad. You're think anywhere from six to 30 repetitions. You should do 10 sets per muscle group per week, maybe even a bit more.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of these days, I'm going to get back to Juji's, or I'm going to get to Jujitsu. Now, in terms of training, he has this beautiful three by five concept for strength. Pick three exercises, compound exercises, multi-joint movements. Do them for do three to five exercises for three to five repetitions per set, rest three to five minutes, and do that three to five times per week. And for details, you can, again, look to the episode. It's timestamped. But what's interesting about this is three to five times a week is a lot for a muscle group squatting five times a week for five reps, meaning you're working pretty heavy, meaning you're close to failure but not failure for strength generally.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, he's always making fun of the meat heads. I love it. I put myself in the meat head category only because I don't do a real sport now. I work out and I run, which is the”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Skill development, or you're an athlete in season, you know, so you have to, what's so great about Andy is he really points out the specific ways to train given your specific goals.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. Because I actually, the way I posed the question to him about cold was I hear that getting into an ice bath or a cold water immersion after training can reduce hypertrophy, but I'm guessing it's not that big of a deal. And he said, no, it is a big deal. It will short-circuit your progress. Now, for people that are only interested in performance who are doing a lot of workouts and trying to recover but not trying to grow muscle, get stronger, or build endurance, then it makes sense to do cold because...”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll start with heat and cold really quickly and just say that avoid cold immersion, so ice baths and being in cold water up to the neck, uncomfortably cold, within the four hours after a training session that's designed to evoke an adaptation, either endurance, hypertrophy, or strength, because the inflammation that you experience from a hard endurance workout or from a hard strength or a hypertrophy workout is the stimulus that you're going to adapt to. The cold water immersion reduces inflammation and can short circuit some of that. After four hours, you're probably okay, but if you can do it a different day or you can do it before those sessions, that's better. Heat, however, can be done immediately after training, and it's probably beneficial because of the way that it dilates the vascular system and delivers, perfuses the muscles and ligaments, et cetera, with more nutrients.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Definitely. And I'll do these in bullet points because if people want the logic behind them and the mechanism, they can listen to that episode. It's a really good.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's an encyclopedia. And he also works with a lot of UFC fighters, and he works with, he has a lab that includes a gym. And so he works on endurance and powerlifting and also hypertrophy training, et cetera. But he also does muscle biopsy. So he runs the full spectrum. And he's a full tenured professor. And he does all the stuff. So he's a really unique person in this whole fitness landscape because there are a lot of PTs out there. There are a lot of kinesiologists. There are a lot of people studying nutrition and sports training. But I think he has the, among the people out there, he's at least in the top five, probably within the top three, of people that really have their arms around the full extent of what's possible with training. And he works with the UFC Performance Center.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're asking them for all of us, so please ask them. I think that question, what is money is crucial. And I think the simple questions are the most obviously the most interesting.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The reason I started watching your podcast. Was you did an episode early on with Ray Dahlio? And the first, maybe the first, but a question that you definitely asked him was you just said, what is money? And his answer was fantastic. It's a superb question. And he gave a superb answer. And I never would have thought to ask that question. And it's the question. And it was the question to tee things off with. So simple questions that get right to the heart of the matter. And kids aren't often putting the same cultural filters and kids generally aren't concerned about getting canceled either. So they'll ask the question that no one else is willing to ask.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I like that in some countries, not so much in the US, children are treated with more respect for their intelligence. and not constantly getting this drivel of just kind of moronic explosions and whistles and bells and the voices that just kind of children obviously are children and need to be their brains are young and plastic and need to be treated and nurtured as such but they but they have an intelligence and I think that you treat them like morons and they're going to behave like morons you treat them as you know people who can consume information and make sense of it in their own way and that's what they're going to do”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Captain Kangaroo, we were allowed, and then Mr. Rogers, we were allowed. I never really liked shows. I like doing things outside the yard. I was trying to trap all the animals. I didn't want to watch stuff on TV. But, you know, hedgehog in the fog is enough to turn any kid into a thinker and a philosopher and a poet. Here we go. I fell in love with this when you showed, look at even walks with its arms behind its back.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the reasons I enjoy our friendship so much is that you bring this Russian thing, you know, which I don't really understand it at a deep level. How could I? I'm not Russian. But this mindset, like that there's pain in life. When I watch that hedgehog in the fog cartoon, I thought no wonder Russians grow it the way they do. This is the most depressing. It's so sad. It's beautiful and sabbath. It's so sad. Whereas out here, it's like sesame street and My mother would not let me watch Sesame Street when I was a kid. She thought it was too chaotic. Too chaotic. She was like, it's too chaotic.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The experience of belly flopping off the high dive is going to make you a better diver. In some sense, at least in this analogy, it will. Whereas if you feel that it's just the most embarrassing thing ever and it's going to cripple your ability to get out in the dive in front of anybody ever again, well, you're right about that too.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dominant knowledge that you're consuming about it. So that's why it's fun to watch David Goggins. Here we go again, David, or Jaco or Joe or someone or Camp Haynes put out this information about or Ryan Hall who ran for Stanford and then now is like into the powerlifting thing and running. And there are others too, of course. When you start to consume a lot of that information, it's not just inspiring. It actually changes your perception of what your own stressful states mean. You can actually get better from stress if you're in the ocean of knowledge that stress grows you. If you're in the ocean of living in the ocean of knowledge, I was thinking like a pool in the summer, you got the kitty pool, the kids all peeing in it, presumably you got the diving thing, you got the high dive and all that. If you believe that...”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is the consequence of that thing and what you believe about that thing. And so if you consume a lot of information about the powers of stressful states to bring out your best, you will perform better. If you consume a lot of information about the power of stress to cripple you, you will perform worse. There's absolutely no question. The data are striking. And this is not growth mindset. This is just simply what do you believe about stress based on the”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you can. If you agree with the following statement, which I do, and many people do, because the data support it, which is Ali Crome's statement, not mine, which is she directs the mind body lab at Stanford. She's brilliant, by the way, brilliant Harvard trained Yale trained. Train licensed clinical psychologist, also tenured professor. She's an Olympian, no, excuse me, a division one athlete in gymnastics Martial arts, and her dad is a longtime martial arts trainer. He's done work with special forces. He's an amazing human being and a very humble, very kind, lovely woman and professor scientist. She says anything that you do and experience, but especially stress.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. Stress and look whether or not you get into a cold ice bath or a hot sauna so hot you want to get out or you get hit square in the face with something over text that you really didn't want to hear or see. Adrenaline. It's just adrenaline. And so your subjective readout of that and what it means is really important.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“More or less normal distribution. We get you stressed enough. It's hard to remember anything. You're not parsing time well. But even in that middle range, almost every study shows that the higher levels of autonomic arousal, meaning norepinephrine, adrenaline in your system, the more effective you are at things. And we always hear stress and adrenaline is just bad, bad, bad. But my colleague Ali Krome at Stanford has done these beautiful studies where if you just educate people on how adrenaline makes them sharper thinkers, they become sharper thinkers. If you educate them on the fact that stress makes your cognition worse, their cognition gets worse. This is why I don't wear a sleep tracker. If you tell people they slept poorly, your recovery score sucks. They naturally perform less well the next day than if you tell them your recovery score is high. And so I don't have anything against those companies, but in fact we use some of their technology can be very useful in certain contexts. But you want to determine your mindset around these things.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, and you mentioned being, you know, kind of cramming for something, you'll release a lot of adrenaline. And it is true you can get a lot done under pressure because of the way that you're slicing time. You don't actually have more time. It's that you're finally in a brain state that lends itself well to parsing information really quickly. Now, if we ramp up your level of stress enough, it's definitely a...”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Waiting in the doctor's office in a blank waiting room with no interesting art on the walls. It feels like it goes by very, very slow. Dopamine to norepinephrine are at all time low. And yet when you think back on that experience, it's as if nothing happened because you were parsing time differently. So those are roughly the tools and the neurochemicals around time perception and the time domain. There's a wonderful book I'm forgetting the title. So wonderful I forget the title by Dean Buodomano from UCLA. I think it's called The Brain is a Time Machine that talks about this expansion and contraction of the time domain and what you can do to leverage it for work and creativity focus and so on.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Expansion of the visual field changes the way the brain works in the time domain, your engineering and biology-oriented listeners will understand this and music. For those that don't, the best way to think about it is when you have a narrow focus, portrait mode on your phone, or you're very alert, you are fine slicing life in time. It's like a, think of it as a high frame rate, like you're shooting in slow motion. When you have your view, you're taking bigger time bins. And one way to just let this hopefully land home is that if you've ever had a really exciting day or podcast interview or experience of any kind, your system is flooded with dopamine and norepinephrine, alertness and motivation, all this excitement. It seems like it goes by very, very fast. And yet when you think back to that, it seems like a lot happened. This happened, then that happened. Now think about.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Pun intended, kind of loftier ideas and more creativity. And that probably has to do with the fact that there's a natural tendency, a reflex to expand your visual field in these high ceiling environments.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It reflects the brainstem centers that are active becoming less for alert, excuse me, becoming less active. But there's a really cool effect that's active in this room right now, which is that there have been some really interesting studies that when people work in small compact spaces, Or wear a hoodie or a hat, that can also improve focus, like blinders on a horse for obvious reasons now, based on what I said before, but also Analytic work or the kind of work where there's a correct answer that you're seeking is best supported by these kind of low ceiling environments. Whereas there's something called the cathedral effect, which is when you work in an outdoor environment or a high ceiling environment, it lends itself to kind of”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And phenylethylamine combined with this. And it's not quite in the place where you'd like it to be. There are a few companies that are doing this better than others. We talk about some of these on the podcast. But I would always start with behavioral tools and then consider pharmacology. And then I suppose the other thing for focus is there are these, this is a little more esoteric, but we cover this in an episode on workplace optimization, where you place your screen is important. Staring down at a screen is not going to be as effective as placing it at eye level or above you. When the eyes are up, literally your eyes are directed forward or up, the brainstem centers for alertness are”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then, in other things, it can enhance focus. So, you know, the pharmacology around this is pretty interesting, things that tickle the dopamine pathway in the acetylcholine pathway, they work. There's your riddle in your adderalls, your modafinils, which are prescription, and there's a lot of non prescription use of those prescription drugs. Not so much in my generation, but in people 35 and younger. You know, I hear all the time from day traders and programmers and stuff and kids that play video games, a lot of riddle and adderall use. I think that unless it's prescribed by a doctor for its specific purpose of ADHD, I don't think people should go that route, frankly. Hits the dopamine system way too hard. Also has a number of negative effects on the sexual side effects all sorts of things that you just wouldn't want. There are a few compounds like alpha GPC, 300 milligrams to 600 milligrams of alpha GPC with a cup of espresso. If you're well rested, you're like a laser for 90 minutes, maybe two hours. But then it's going to taper off and you have to just recognize that. And then there's this whole world of nootropics now and people trying to figure out the racetams, peracetam.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You really should be doing this with headphones because binaural beats are best accomplished by feeding two different frequencies to the two ears. And then you have what's called this brainstem area that reads out what are called interaural time differences, and then it extracts the delta. Essentially”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so you're going to look for, you'd want to find an app that offers 40 hertz. I think Brainwave... Allows you to slidebar up to the particular frequency that you want. And I should say that there are other frequencies that are interesting, but 40 hertz binaural beat seems to be the one that there's the most quality research on.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because they feel other stuff. And they hear other stuff. So you learn to adjust that aperture consciously. And then, of course, there are the pharmacologic tools. Just enough caffeine, but not too much, right? We talked about white noise, brown noise, music, or no music really varies, but it's very clear that binaural beats of 40 hertz can shift the brain into a heightened state of focus and cognition. So if you're going to use binaural beats, which should definitely be used with headphones, and there are a number of free apps out there and sources, 40 hertz seems to be the frequency that best supports the brain shifting into a particular. Can you give us that?”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Learn to dilate and contract your visual field consciously. This can be done if you practice it a little bit. And then, as I said before, it is very hard to get into a state of focus like a step function immediately, like snapping your fingers. What you can do is you can pick any object, but ideally an object at roughly the same distance, placed at roughly the same distance to which you're going to do that work, and stare at it, you're allowed to blink. And as your mind starts to drift every once in a while to understand that's normal, but try and narrow your visual aperture and bring that into your visual field so that that's the most prominent thing, kind of like portrait mode in your phone. This would look very different and portrait mode than it would in just a standard photograph mode. And then after doing that for 30 to 60 seconds, moving into the work that you're about to do and really encourage yourself to do that. If you're somebody who's low vision or no vision, you're going to use your ears to do this. Braille readers have trouble focusing sometimes.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Much of the training that's being done now in China to teach kids to focus better literally has them stare at a target, blinking every so often but really training themselves to breathe calmly and maintain a tight visual aperture. When you read, you have to maintain a tight visual aperture. You're literally scrolling like a highlighter in your mind's eye, right? It's kind of obvious once you hear it. So for people that have problems focusing sleep well.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the same way being well rested when you sleep, your autonomic nervous system that adjusts states of alertness and focus and calm works better than when your sleep deprived. So if you're sleeping better, you're going to focus better. So I always answer this way to a question like this because the best thing that anyone can do for their mental health, physical health, and performance in athletic or cognitive endeavors or creative endeavors is to make sure that you're getting enough quality sleep enough of the time for you. And that's going to differ. We could talk about what that means. Now, in terms of things that mediate focus without getting into the description of mechanisms, because we have podcasts about that. It's very clear that mental focus follows visual focus, provided that you're a sighted person.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First of all, we have to distinguish between modulators and mediators. And I'll do this very briefly. There are a lot of things that will modulate your state of focus, but they don't directly mediate your sense of focus. So for instance, if right now a fire alarm went off in this building, it would modulate our attention. We would get up and leave. It would be very hard to do what we're doing with that banging in the background, at least at first. So it's modulating focus, but it's not really involved in the mechanisms of focus, right?”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There are people who have a gene that leads them to the perception that the smell of microwave popcorn that you find is good. It smells like putrid vomit to them. It's a particular gene variant, and they can smell certain elements within the microwave popcorn. It's prominent in France, this gene. And so in laboratories where you have a lot of French people, it's often said like you're not allowed to make microwave popcorn smells putrid, disgusting. So a lot of it's in the perception of the beholder, right?”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Remember that book, All's Quiet on the Western Front by World War I? There's this line in there. I forget what it is about how war is like the smell of a skunk, like a little bit is actually a little is slightly, there's something slightly delicious of it is what it says in the book. I happen to like the smell of like ferrets and skunks and things. I had a pet ferret when I was a kid. And I like that musky scent. People most people, just it's repulsive to them. It's actually a gene, believe it or not. Some people have the gene that makes the musky scent repulsive. Some people love it. Let me ask you this. There's another gene. This is a fun one. Microwave popcorn smells good, neutral, or disgusting to you.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it's amazing how easy it is to overlook that they're there and forget that they're there. But when I drive by San Quentin, I think about it. I also think about the people who are in there who might be innocent. I've seen some of those episodes on Rogan and elsewhere. Amanda Knox talks a lot about this, right? Whether or not you believe her story or not, I happen to believe her story personally based on what I know, which I'm sure there are people disagree with me. I think to myself, what it must be like to be in a cell and know in your heart's heart you didn't do it. I can't think of many things worse. I can't think of many things worse.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From my hike, I can see San Quentin. It's really weird that San Quentin and Alcatraz, you know, Bay Area beautiful, everyone thinks, you know, like there's the Bay and there's Alcatraz and San Quentin sitting right there”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you get out on work for a lot of people, anklets so that they can go to the Lex Friedman podcast, it probably happened. Have you ever been in a prison”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's okay. What I don't need to play. Yeah, so I don't know him. But a lot of media outlets picked up on his love of NSDR. And I have to imagine running Google involves a lot of juggling a lot of. He's one of the greatest.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People really should know that stage hypnosis is about the hypnotist getting you to do things you wouldn't normally do. Self hypnosis, which is what we're talking about here, reverie in this, is about you getting your brain into the state that you want. And again, I mean, there's a ton of neuroimaging data and work on trauma and pain relief, and our labs are working on this with David Spiegel's lab. I really encourage people to explore NSDR. And if this feels a little too wacky and out there, then I would just put in NSDR into YouTube and there's some good NSDR scripts.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would do is go into the most sort by most popular because there's some older ones that I really like and it generally scales with that. So I'll do this one, the hypnosis for clearing subconscious negativity. That's an hour-long one. The sleep and anxiety one, 40 minutes. But those you listen to as you fall asleep.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, the messages always look green to me, but I answer yours despite that. But they. I feel like the Android phones are very trigger happy. Like anything I touch does something, whereas the Apple phone is kind of built for a macaque monkey to be able to operate, which is great for me because I'm more of a macaque monkey and you're a more sophisticated ape.”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tell me this about Android. Now you wanted to. This is the one thing that gets me. I'm very close to someone who uses an Android phone. I feel like”
2022-04-17 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source