Huberman Lab

  • How to Control Your Sense of Pain & Pleasure

    This episode I discuss our sense of pain and pleasure: where and how they each arise in our mind and body and various ways to control their intensity. I discuss the science of behavioral tools…


  • Dr. Matt Walker: The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep

    In this episode, my guest is Dr. Matt Walker, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and the Founder & Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also…


  • How to Optimize Your Brain-Body Function & Health

    This episode I describe how the organs of the body influence the function and health of our brain and how our brain controls our bodily organs. The conscious awareness of this brain-body dialogue is called…


  • Dr. Lex Fridman: Machines, Creativity & Love

    Dr. Lex Fridman PhD, is a scientist at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), working on robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and human-robot interactions. He is also the host of the Lex Fridman Podcast where he…


  • Maximizing Productivity, Physical & Mental Health with Daily Tools

    In this episode, I discuss science-supported tools for enhancing focus, learning, creativity, sleep, physical strength and endurance and brain and body health. I explain each protocol in detail, the rationale behind it, and how the…


  • The Science of Hearing, Balance & Accelerated Learning

    This episode I describe how our ears and nervous system decode sound waves and gravity to allow us to hear and make sense of sounds. I also describe protocols for rapid learning of sound and…


  • Dr. Karl Deisseroth: Understanding & Healing the Mind

    Dr. Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, is a clinical psychiatrist and scientist who directs a bioengineering research laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine. His work aims to understand and develop treatments for disorders of the…


  • How Smell, Taste & Pheromone-Like Chemicals Control You

    This episode explains how we sense chemicals through smell, taste, and pheromones. How things smell and taste and chemicals in the tears, breath, and on the skin of others have a profound effect on how…


  • The Science of Vision, Eye Health & Seeing Better

    This episode I describe how we see, meaning how our eyes focus, convert light information into electricity the rest of the brain can understand and how our brain creates the incredible thing we experience as…


  • How to Build Endurance in Your Brain & Body

    This episode I discuss endurance: our ability to perform effort over extended amounts of time. I describe the four kinds of endurance: muscular endurance, long duration (single-set) efforts, and the two kinds of high intensity…