Welcome to the Uberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.

I'm Andrew Uberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

This podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford.

It is however part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to consumer information about science and science-related tools to the general public.

In keeping with that theme, I'd like to thank the sponsors of today's podcast.

Our first sponsor is Athletic Greens. Athletic Greens is an all-in-one vitamin mineral probiotic drink.

I've been taking Athletic Greens since 2012, so I'm delighted that they're sponsoring the podcast.

The reason I started taking Athletic Greens and the reason I still take Athletic Greens once or twice today is that it helps me cover all of my basic nutritional needs.

It makes up for any deficiencies that I might have.

In addition, it has probiotics, which are vital for microbiome health.

I've done a couple of episodes now on the so-called gut microbiome and the ways in which the microbiome interacts with your immune system, with your brain to regulate mood, and essentially with every biological system relevant to health throughout your brain and body.

With Athletic Greens, I get the vitamins I need, the minerals I need, and the probiotics to support my microbiome.

If you'd like to try Athletic Greens, you can go to AthleticGreens.com slash Huberman and claim a special offer. They'll give you five free travel packs plus a year supply of vitamin D3K2.

There are a ton of data now showing that vitamin D3 is essential for various aspects of our brain and body health.

Even if we're getting a lot of sunshine, many of us are still deficient in vitamin D3.

And K2 is also important because it regulates things like cardiovascular function, calcium in the body, and so on.

Again, go to AthleticGreens.com slash Huberman to claim the special offer of the five free travel packs and the year supply of vitamin D3K2.

Today's episode is also brought to us by Inside Tracker. Inside Tracker is a personalized nutrition platform that analyzes data from your blood and DNA to help you better understand your body and help you reach your health goals.

I am a big fan of getting regular blood work done, and I've been trying to do it as much as I can afford for years.

The reason is that many of the factors that impact our immediate and long-term health can only be discovered from a quality blood test.

With most blood tests and DNA tests, however, you get information back, but not a lot of information about what to do with those numbers.

With Inside Tracker, they give you a lot of specific recommendations as to lifestyle factors, nutrition factors, supplementation factors, things you may want to add to your life, or things you may want to delete from your life in order to bring the numbers into the ranges that are best for your immediate and long-term.

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