Dr. Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience Hacks for Peak Brain Performance and Stress Mastery : 1208

The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey

Dave Asprey

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What if you could control your brain’s performance and stress levels with just a few simple hacks? In this episode callback, Dave Asprey sits down with Dr. Andrew Huberman, a renowned neuroscientist from Stanford University, to unlock the secrets of how your brain really works—and how you can train it for enhanced cognitive power and stress resilience. From rewiring your brain’s fear response to mastering your level of alertness, Dr. Huberman reveals groundbreaking discoveries that could change the way you approach your mental and emotional well-being.

Diving deep into neuroscience, they cover how visual stimuli can modulate stress, the role of autonomic arousal in cognitive performance, and even how brain-machine interfaces may soon push human potential beyond its current limits. You’ll learn why certain visual and sensory techniques can calm or excite your brain, and how to train your brain to handle high-stress situations with ease. Plus, find out how Dr. Huberman is working on curing blindness with VR technology—offering a glimpse into the future of human augmentation.

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Dr. Andrew Huberman’s Stanford Profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/andrew-huberman
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Timestamps and Highlights:

• 00:00 — Introduction and Cool Fact of the Day

• 00:07 — Understanding Anxiety Through Brain Activity

• 02:07 — Meet Dr. Andrew Huberman

• 03:33 — The Five Components of Life Experience

• 05:29 — Autonomic Arousal and Cognitive Performance

• 08:00 — Visual Stimuli and Stress Management

• 10:22 — Exploring Fear and Courage in Mice

• 15:17 — Human Applications and VR Experiments

• 23:10 — The Role of Vision in Autonomic Arousal

• 29:38 — Bridging Neuroscience and Wellness

• 30:43 — Curing Blindness: A Personal Mission

• 34:50 — VR Goggles and Visual Stimulation

• 35:12 — The Power of Virtual Art Galleries

• 35:58 — Exploring Neuroplasticity in Adults

• 38:31 — Potential and Risks of VR Technology

• 40:27 — Human Augmentation and Neuroscience

• 43:22 — Brain-Machine Interfaces and Non-Invasive Techniques

• 45:47 — The Evolution of Biohacking

• 52:03 — Personal Biohacking Journeys

• 56:34 — Longevity and Life Extension

• 59:28 — Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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0:00.0	You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.
0:04.0	Today's cool fact of the day is that anxiety may be inherited from your parents brain activity patterns.
0:15.4	And researchers found a pattern of this brain activity that's tied to anxiety and traced it through
0:19.8	generations of monkeys.
0:21.8	The results of this large study of about 400 monkeys
0:24.4	bring us a little closer to understanding severe anxiety and how it's
0:29.4	inheritable. This came from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, and they say this new activity pattern really acts almost like genes going through your family tree.
0:40.0	They measured anxious temperament by subjecting young monkeys to a stressful
0:44.8	situation. And they measured how they responded to that to that situation,
0:50.3	in other
0:53.4	words how strong response they had and they measured their levels of cortisol
0:53.8	and they figured out which monkeys stress harder than other monkeys.
0:57.2	And then they scanned the monkeys brains under anesthesia and the monkeys that had the bigger
1:02.2	stress response showed a crucial difference in the extended
1:06.2	amygdala, which is a brain structure and its surrounding that's known to be involved in fear and
1:10.8	threat detection.
1:11.8	Oh, and if you meditate, it's probably involved in some of the more
1:14.8	esoteric spiritual states you can achieve when you train it the other way but no one ever talks about that.
1:19.3	That wasn't in the study either.
1:21.1	But two parts in particular of the amygdala, the central nucleus and the bed nucleus of the
1:26.7	Strya terminalis behaved in lockstep in the high-stress monkeys. And this is through functional MRI scans and they found if your parents had
1:36.9	it the kids had it along with that anxious temperament. What this means is that you
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