Recently I had the pleasure of hosting two live events, one in Seattle, WA and one in Portland, OR. These events were part of a lecture series called The Brain Body Contract. My favorite part of each evening was the question & answer period, where I had the opportunity to answer questions from the attendees of each event. Included here is the Q&A from our event at the Newmark Theatre.
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<h2>Timestamps</h2>
(00:00:00) The Brain Body Contract Q&A
(00:01:08) Sponsors: Momentous, InsideTracker
(00:01:36) Upcoming Live Events: Los Angeles & New York
(00:02:16) What Are the Current Best Practices for Post-TBIs? Thoughts on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy?
(00:08:03) Are There Effective Ways to Decrease Dopamine When You Get Too Much of It?
(00:13:50) How and When to Improve Brain Plasticity if You Have 10 Minutes a Day?
(00:17:51) How to Use Supplements to Optimize Health When Career Prevents Consistent Routines?
(00:21:09) How Is Social Media Changing Our Brains?
(00:25:10) What New Piece of Neurological Research Most Excites You?
(00:28:35) Do You Believe in the Wim How Method? Does It Work? What's Happening in the Brain?
(00:37:08) Can Red Light Therapy Help Treat Exercise Intolerance and Fatigue in Mitochondrial Disease?
(00:40:39) Is It Possible to Over Do Ice Baths?
(00:46:10) What Are Your Favorite Brain Hacks for Doing Hard Things?
(00:48:25) What Do You Fear? How Do You Manage Fear?
(00:50:05) Conclusion
Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac
Disclaimer
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
Recently, I had the pleasure of hosting two live events, one in Seattle, Washington, and one in Portland, Oregon, both entitled the Brain Body Contract, where I discussed science and science related tools for mental health, physical health.
And performance. My favorite part of each evening, however, was the question and answer period that followed the lecture. I love the question and answer period because it gives me an opportunity.
Hear directly from the audience as to what they want to know most and indeed to get into a bit of dialogue.
To verify what are the underlying mechanisms of particular tools, how best to use the tools for things like focus and sleep. We also touched on some things related to mental health and physical health. It was a delight for me and I like to...
I think that the audience learned a lot. I know that many of you weren't able to attend those events,
Make the information available to you. Therefore, what follows this is a recording of the question and answer period from the lecture in Portland, Oregon. I hope you'll find it to be both interesting and informative.
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That you learn from and enjoy the recording of the question and answer period that follows this.
And lastly, thank you for your interest in science. What are the current best practices for post TBIs, traumatic brain injuries, for those of you that...
I'm familiar with TBI, especially long term multiple ooh, etc. Thoughts on hyperbaric. Oh, I'm so glad you asked this Danny. Morelage as treatment for TBIs. Okay, TBI. Now, one thing about TBI and concussion, everyone thinks football. Guess what? Most of the TBI is not football. There aren't that many football players. They're just large so they stand out.
There might be a few here this evening. Of course football players are a concern when it comes to TBI. Most head injuries are going to be construction workers. Have you ever seen the hard hats they wear? I don't even know if they are just there for show. It doesn't make sense. And we actually have a lab at Stanford that's focused very hard on trying to solve this problem. So construction workers, car accident, bicycle accidents, Portland, amazing city to cycle, I'm frankly afraid to cycle. You're a small moving object around these big objects and people are staring into their little aperture on their phone while driving. I mean, whatever happened to that by the way? Not texting while driving? Somehow that just disappeared. It's like it really has just disappeared. There was all this science showing that it's worse than drunk driving. TBI, well the basic rules of the don'ts apply. If you get a head injury, don't get a second head injury.
That often isn't feasible for people that need to work, continue working construction, or that are struggling. What do we know? Well, this is a great opportunity for me to distinguish modulatory foundational tools from things that directly change your brain and nervous system the way that you want to. What do I mean by modulatory?
We hear so much and there's so many studies showing that great sleep, quality nutrition, good social interactions, avoiding chronic stress, and on and on and on are important for everything. They're related to Alzheimer's, they're related to ADHD. I mean, we could do thousands of podcast episodes just returning to the same 10 things. Sleep, don't stress too much or too long, good social connection, avoid toxic people.
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