Harnessing Autonomic Arousal to Think & Do Better – Andrew Huberman : 572
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we talk about how you can increase cognitive capacity by leveraging your stress; how the brain is wired for fear; advances in virtual reality; and why a daily dose of real brain science on Instagram is good for just about everyone.
My guest is neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. He studies comparative neurology to better understand the human brain and human brain evolution. He’s also working to make neuroscience more accessible and relevant to people’s everyday life. And he’s in a particularly good position to do just that at Stanford School of Medicine where he’s an associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology and the Department of Ophthalmology. His own Huberman Lab performs clinical trials using molecular, genetic, physiological and virtual reality tools.
His work includes developing ways to regenerate the brain after injury and in neurodegenerative disorders, mainly those causing blindness. Another aspect of his research parses the mechanisms for stress, "courage" (adaptive action toward potential threats), and testing treatments and protocols for anxiety disorders and trauma.
Dr. Huberman has made numerous—and award-winning-- contributions to the fields of brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.0 | Today's cool fact of the day is that anxiety may be inherited from your parent's brain |
| 0:21.4 | activity patterns. |
| 0:23.5 | And researchers found a pattern of this brain activity that's tied to anxiety enthrased |
| 0:27.6 | it through generations of monkeys. |
| 0:30.2 | There's also this large study of about 400 monkeys, bringing us a little closer to understanding |
| 0:35.9 | severe anxiety and how it's inheritable. |
| 0:39.1 | This came from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. |
| 0:42.3 | And they say this new activity pattern really acts almost like genes going through your |
| 0:48.6 | family tree. |
| 0:49.9 | They measured anxious temperament by subjecting young monkeys to a stressful situation. |
| 0:55.5 | And they measured how they responded to that situation, how strong response they had, |
| 1:01.8 | and they measured their levels of cortisol, and they figured out which monkeys stress |
| 1:05.0 | harder than other monkeys. |
| 1:07.1 | And then they scanned the monkeys' brains under anesthesia. |
| 1:10.8 | And the monkeys that had the bigger stress response showed a crucial difference in the extended |
| 1:15.9 | amygdala, which is a brain structure and is surrounding that's known to be involved |
| 1:19.8 | in fear and threat detection. |
| 1:21.6 | Oh, and if you meditate, it's probably involved in some of the more esoteric spiritual |
| 1:25.6 | states you can achieve when you train it the other way, but no one ever talks about |
| 1:28.5 | that. |
| 1:29.5 | That wasn't in the study either. |
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