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Modern Wisdom

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 186 minutes

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Summary

Dr Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist, Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a podcaster. It has never been so easy and also so difficult to remain healthy and perform at your best. The right tools and insights we all need to avoid pitfalls and maximise our outcomes are thankfully at our finger tips, and today we get to go through some of Dr Huberman's favourites. Expect to learn how breathing can change the shape of your face, what Andrew thinks of the “Huberman Husbands” kink, just how bad vaping actually is for you, how to increase your willpower using science, what everyone misunderstands about stress, his opinion on Tom Segura’s transformation, how to be more productive and much more…⁣ Timestamps: (00:00) How Mouth-Breathing Changes Face Shape (08:16) What We Misunderstand About Stress (24:56) People Are Recognising the Need to Focus on Health & Fitness (31:43) How the Mind Improves When the Body Improves (40:49) The Health Risks of Drinking Alcohol (55:18) How Our Screen Use Impacts Eye Health (1:08:07) Reacting to ‘Huberman Husbands’ (1:22:32) Should We Be Concerned About Vaping? (1:33:23) Are Phones Ruining Our Focus? (1:47:49) Why Phone Use Isn’t an Addiction (2:04:52) Strategies to Become More Productive (2:15:04) The Science Behind Procrastination (2:19:58) The Perils of Over-Optimisation (2:30:00) Why Andrew Doesn’t Comment on Current Events (2:51:20) Andrew’s Increase of Popularity & Scrutiny (2:58:28) What’s Next for Andrew? Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show.

0:02.7

My guest today is Dr Andrew Heuberman. He's a neuroscientist, associate professor at the

0:07.1

Stanford University School of Medicine and a podcaster. It has never been so easy and also so difficult

0:14.4

to remain healthy and perform at your best. The right tools and insights that we all need to avoid

0:19.4

pitfalls and maximize our outcomes are thankfully at our fingertips and today we get to go through

0:24.1

some of Dr Heuberman's favourites. Expect to learn how breathing can literally change the shape

0:29.3

of your face, what Andrew thinks of the Heuberman husband's kink, just how bad vaping actually is

0:35.2

for you, how to increase your willpower using science, what everyone misunderstands about stress,

0:40.5

his opinion on Tom Segura's transformation, how to be more productive, and much more.

0:46.8

This episode is so good. I absolutely love Dr Heuberman's work. The guy is the biggest health

0:53.5

and fitness podcaster on the planet and with good reason. He's made every bro biohacker

0:59.0

look very silly over the last couple of years by using science and evidence to work out exactly

1:04.2

what we actually need to do to improve our outcomes, our longevity, our health, literally everything.

1:09.3

I really appreciate all of the work that he puts in and there is so much to take away from today.

1:14.7

Don't forget that if you are new here or a long time listener you might be listening but not

1:18.7

subscribed and that is trez bad because it means you will miss episodes when they go up. The next

1:23.6

two months has got a stacked lineup of huge guests that you don't want to miss so navigate

1:29.2

to Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you are listening and press the subscribe button.

1:33.5

It does support the show. It makes me very happy indeed and it ensures that you will not miss

1:37.9

episodes when they go up. So go and press it. I thank you. But now ladies and gentlemen,

1:45.2

please welcome Dr. Andrew Huberman.

2:05.7

What were you just teaching me about mouth breathing and how it changes the shape of the face?

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