Andrew Huberman

Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast

Jennifer Cawley

Danica Patrick, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Pretty Intense

4.6 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Today on The Pretty Intense Podcast, we have Dr. Andrew Huberman, neuroscientist, and tenured Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University. He hosts a hugely popular podcast called "The Huberman Lab". Dr. Huberman is so brilliant, so fascinating. Dopamine was the first big topic we talked about. How it is the main chemical motivator in our body. We talked about how that need for dopamine plays into relationships. What creates connection, and why we choose the partners we do. We talked about grief. The ending of relationship through break-up or even death. We have so much we can learn from Dr. Huberman, and he is on a mission to share his knowledge to help as many people as he can in his lifetime. We hope you enjoy todays special Episode. Don't forget to check out: https://hubermanlab.com/

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0:00.0	So is dopamine the only driving force in why we seek to accomplish something?
0:07.5	I would say it is the primary driving force.
0:10.8	Dopamine is the molecule that is creating motivation, craving, and drive for things that are outside our immediate possession or experience beyond the confines of our skin. So seeking new relationship, seeking a new item
0:25.4	that you want to buy, seeking a degree, seeking a win,
0:28.3	seeking a trope, okay, seeking.
0:30.0	But there's another set of rewards
0:31.7	that have to do with the feelings of pleasure that we derive from things that we already have.
0:36.0	That we experience this very intensely around close relationships with people or animals that we feel kinship with.
0:42.0	You don't need to seek them, they're just there, just feels good.
0:48.8	Welcome to the Pretty Intense Podcast. Today is definitely pretty intense.
0:53.5	Today on the show is Andrew Huberman.
0:56.3	He is a neuroscientist, a tenured professor
0:59.6	at Stanford University.
1:01.4	He has an incredible podcast called the Huberman Lab
1:03.8	podcast in which I've listened to so many episodes of because maybe you guys have
1:08.8	gotten the flow of this but I basically get really fascinated with somebody and then I see if they'll do my show and allow me the opportunity to ask so many questions that pop up for me when I listen to them.
1:19.5	And Andrew was just so brilliant, so fascinating.
1:23.0	Dopamine was the first really big topic we talked about.
1:25.7	We talked about the system of it
1:27.1	and how that works within the body,
1:28.8	why we do things and why we're motivated, why we're not.
1:32.0	And then also the importance of that rhythm.
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