Andrew Huberman
About this creator
Andrew Huberman shares science-backed frameworks for focus, energy, habits, and performance that can improve how founders and operators work.
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Included for practical, research-backed guidance on focus, energy, habits, and performance that improves day-to-day execution.
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Resilience & grit
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How to build a more meaningful life by embracing discomfort
Andrew Huberman
June 16, 2025
Resilience & grit
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Mental health & wellbeing
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- Comfort erodes gratitude — deliberate hardship resets your threshold for problems.
- Effortless scrolling spends dopamine; effort and boredom invest it.
- One annual near-impossible challenge reveals where you've been underselling yourself.
Physical & cognitive performance
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The science and practice of optimising sleep
Andrew Huberman
June 12, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
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- Late caffeine cuts deep sleep depth by up to 30% — even undetected
- Alcohol blocks REM sleep mid-night; the brain never fully recovers the debt
- Melatonin supplements are 10–100x the effective dose and barely move the needle
Physical & cognitive performance
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How brain-body communication shapes health, mood, and performance
Andrew Huberman
June 5, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
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Resilience & grit
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- Your emotions are built from gut, heart, and breath signals — not thought
- Exhale length directly controls heart rate and calm within seconds
- Daily fermented foods outperform fibre for brain and immune health
Resilience & grit
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The neuroscience of grief: attachment, yearning, and integration
Andrew Huberman
June 2, 2025
Resilience & grit
8
Automation & tools
7
Deep work & focus
6
- Grief is dopamine-driven yearning, not sadness — your brain is literally thirsty.
- Bereavement raises heart attack risk 21-fold on the day of loss.
- The goal is integration, not letting go — the internal relationship continues.
Mental health & wellbeing
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AI, robots, and human connection: insights from Lex Fridman
Andrew Huberman
May 29, 2025
Mental health & wellbeing
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Resilience & grit
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- Shared time — not intelligence — is what makes robots feel real
- Self-supervised learning may give machines human-like common sense
- Grief for a dog reveals how deep non-human bonds can run
Physical & cognitive performance
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A science-based daily protocol for productivity, mood, and health
Andrew Huberman
May 22, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
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Physical health & longevity
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- Your temperature minimum determines your optimal deep-work window.
- Delay caffeine 90 minutes to eliminate afternoon energy crashes.
- Starchy carbs at dinner raise serotonin and accelerate sleep onset.
Identity & self-belief
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The neuroscience and craft of comedy with Tom Segura
Andrew Huberman
May 19, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Founder interviews
7
Mental health & wellbeing
6
- Humor is involuntary — you can't reason someone into laughing
- Saying the unspoken thing others won't is comedy's core mechanism
- The darkest comics are often the healthiest people offstage
Physical & cognitive performance
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How sunlight, heat, and daily habits build a stronger immune system
Andrew Huberman
February 24, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
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Physical health & longevity
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- Infrared light from the sun powers mitochondria — and most people are chronically deficient
- Raising core body temperature with heat triggers a 10-fold increase in interferon
- NAC halves flu symptom severity; number needed to treat is just two
Relationships & family
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How to raise resilient kids and navigate emotions at any age
Andrew Huberman
January 13, 2025
Relationships & family
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Mental health & wellbeing
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- What most parents call guilt is actually absorbing your child's feelings as your own.
- Frustration isn't a problem to fix — it's the neurochemical trigger for brain rewiring.
- If a task feels too hard to start, the first step simply isn't small enough yet.
Physical & cognitive performance
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How to align your daily schedule with brain biology for better learning
Andrew Huberman
January 2, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
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Deep work & focus
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- High alertness is for linear work; low arousal unlocks creativity.
- Delay caffeine two hours to amplify your natural cortisol peak.
- Afternoon NSDR resets the brain without disrupting night sleep.
Physical & cognitive performance
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How the brain controls cognition and how to optimise it
Andrew Huberman
February 19, 2024
Physical & cognitive performance
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Deep work & focus
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- Working memory is the real-time workspace; dopamine is its chemical lever
- More dopamine isn't better — an inverted-U means you can overshoot and perform worse
- Brain modularity predicts who responds to cognitive training and drug therapy