020- Priming Your Brain for Better Learning with Dr. Daniel Chao
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
No matter what your goal, learning and skill acquisition are major bottlenecks to success. But what if you could reduce the time it took for you to learn? Our guest today, Dr. Daniel Chao has spent his career doing just that! After graduating from Stanford Medical School with an MD in neuroscience, Dr. Chao started developing tech that primes your brain for learning. The result... Halo Sport.
In this episode, Dr. Chao and Ben dive into how learning happens in the brain and more importantly how we can influence it. They discuss the mechanism behind Halo Sport's success and how they have improved it for the soon to be released Halo Sport 2.
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Time Stamps
- How the status quo around the brain is broken. [0:44]
- Why drugs for the brain don’t work very well. [5:50]
- The idea of zero sum. [9:55]
- The history of neurostimulation. [13:40]
- What does the research show and what are the potential implications when we subject our brain to stimulation? [16:20]
- Has Halo Sport seen any quantitative data to support bumps in performance? [25:50]
- How are they collecting data from the brain? [33:45]
- Understanding their place in science. [36:06]
- How does Halo 2 differ from Halo 1? [39:05]
- Have they seen any synergetic effects? [43:43]
- What is Halo Sport currently excited about? [46:41]
Featured Guest
- Daniel Chao (@danielchao) | Twitter
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- Halo Neuroscience
- Pharmacology - Wikipedia
- Halo Sport - Science – Halo Neuroscience
- Neuropace - NeuroPace, Inc
- What is Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation (tDCS)?
- tDCS Research
- The Athlete’s Guide to the Brain: Motor Skill Learning
- Maximum voluntary isometric contraction: reference values and clinical application.
- Reliability of time-to-exhaustion versus time-trial running tests in runners.
- Sensory Evoked Potentials Studies | Johns Hopkins Medicine
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The President Hey, everybody, welcome to the muscle intelligence podcast. I'm your host, Ben Pocolsky. |
| 0:38.5 | Today we're going to dive a little bit into neuroscience. The science of making your brain work better, work faster, and one of the best new technologies that exist anywhere in the market. |
| 0:48.7 | Today's guest is a graduate of biochemistry at University of California, Berkeley. He studied a master's in neuroscience at Stanford, and he got an MD at the Stanford School |
| 1:00.1 | of Medicine. |
| 1:00.6 | This guy's no slouch. |
| 1:01.6 | He's been in the tech industry since 2002 when he left med school and he's been crushing |
| 1:08.7 | it ever since with success after success, all focused in this |
| 1:12.9 | area of neuroscience and brain optimization. Transcranial stimulation is what we're going to look at |
| 1:19.4 | today. What does that mean? Sending electricity into your brain to make it work better. I know that |
| 1:25.0 | sounds a little bit scary to all of us. And to be honest, |
| 1:28.2 | it was to me as well when I began. But after experimenting with this device for three years, |
| 1:32.3 | I finally feel comfortable to bring Dr. Daniel Chow on the show today to discuss the Halo |
| 1:37.2 | Sport, which many of you have heard of. And every sports team, it seemed across the country, |
| 1:42.3 | is diving into this thing to optimize brain performance, |
| 1:45.2 | brain function, and motor learning. And it is a device that looks very much like a headset |
| 1:52.1 | that you put on your head and it literally emits electrical impulse into your brain that is said |
| 1:57.7 | to improve performance. Now, Dr. Chow and I discuss the safety first and foremost, |
| 2:04.2 | because I know that's always going to be the hardest thing to overcome. And Dr. Chow has been |
| 2:07.8 | working most of his adult life, if not all of his adult life, on optimizing this technology |
| 2:14.3 | and now looking at different areas of the brain that may actually benefit from |
| 2:18.2 | this acute electrical stimulus. And he'll tell you all about the protocols, how to get it. He's going to |
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