Andrew Huberman: Forest Bathing in Negative Ions

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

We are back with a moderate-sized Decoding that focuses on Andrw Hubernman a baritone podcaster and neuroscientist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Huberman is a broad-shouldered, big-bearded... science communicator. Extremely popular with the tech-bro optimiser set, he offers science-based 'protocols' on everything from supplement routines to whether you should avoid sunscreen(!).

He's been lauded for his ability to communicate scientific topics clearly and in great depth. But has also faced criticism (including from us!) for his tendency to overhype findings from low-quality studies, promote supplements with dubious claims, avoid any positive mention of vaccines, and cheer on the efforts of his podcasting bros/heroes: Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan.

In this episode, we take a look at a rather specific piece of content, just a 20-minute segment from a recent AMA on the scientific evidence for the benefits of 'grounding' and getting out into nature. We will learn all about the negative ions emanating from streams and waterfalls, the joy that can be sparked by seeing a squirrel wrestle with a nut, whether Huberman actually advocates staring into the sun, and try to solve the age-old question of what is best in life- a sushi restaurant or prancing in a forest.

Also featuring: some good content recommendations (for a change!) and a review of the recent demented goings on in the gurusphere with one Jordan B. Peterson and his quest to destroy the College of Psychologists of Ontario.

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0:00.0	And the Oh, Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's the podcast
0:27.8	where an anthropologist and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try to understand what they're talking about.
0:34.6	I'm Professor Matthew Brown.
0:36.5	With me is Associate Professor Chris Kavanaugh.
0:39.9	Together we are the co-host of this podcast.
0:45.0	Hello Chris.
0:45.4	Yes.
0:46.2	Welcome to the coding the guru's lab
0:48.5	where we take a scientific approach
0:50.4	to examining the psychological, the
0:53.0	the quasi-fak, have we ever
0:56.9	fucked it up already?
0:58.3	I was trying to hear for a scientific presentation, you know, but I feel smart.
1:06.0	Yes, but keep your eyes up for Guru's Pie-branded supplements.
1:10.0	The best place to get your vitamin D and get your unspecified green drinks
1:17.4	But may give you too many doses of particular vitamins.
1:22.8	So this is all related to the topic of the episode today.
1:28.1	And today, Matt, it's a special episode in a way.
1:30.8	Sometimes we do this little mini bite-size morsel
1:34.3	decoding episodes about specific content things like some short episode Sam
1:39.7	Harris did about his meditation app that was nine minutes we've done Eric's monologues before we've done a whole bunch of like generally shorter content where we focus on a specific topic and that is kind of what we're doing today. The content that we're looking at is just a 20 minute episode by Andrew Huberman. So in that respects it is many decoding but I actually think it's going to take us a little bit of time to get through all of the clips and talk about the intricacies and so I think this is more a medium-sized episode and because of that
2:18.0	math it probably justifies a little bit of an introductory segment, doesn't you say?
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