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Chapter 1: Who is Andrew Huberman?
Today's guest is a neuroscientist. He's a professor, he's a podcaster. He hosts one of the biggest shows in the world called Huberman Lab, where he focuses on helping us to become our best selves and get the most out of our bodies. I believe that he's one of the people who's responsible for bringing health and self-evaluation into the mainstream.
I'm grateful for the chance to finally link up today with the one and only Andrew Huberman.
Whitney's been amazing to me since I moved to LA. She kind of ushered me in. I didn't really understand LA. I moved to Topanga during the pandemic, set up there with my bulldog, started doing the podcast in a closet. And she, she kind of taught me about LA and I'd never done anything public facing. Let's start. Yeah, we can do it, but we can talk.
I mean, I think we should mention how, what a cute baby Henry is. That kid is so cute.
Oh, the baby is beautiful. I think bring up Henry, bring up Henry Cummins. I don't even know if it has a stage name. I have no idea if the baby has a front name or last name. I'm pretty sure it's Henry Cummings. Oh, my God. That's beautiful.
Oh, yeah. Look at him. He's got your haircut.
He does, dude. And you can tell he cuts it himself, too. Yeah, I've met him and he's just such a good natured kid. He looks AI right there. He looks like Dermot Kennedy a little as well there.
He loves animals, which is great because she's surrounded herself with animals. Are you trying to attack a resemblance there?
I'm just saying the child has a slight resemblance to the remarkable crooner, Dermot Kennedy. And look, whoa, hold on. Whoa, bro. I'm going to have to call my sponsor, dude. Oh, that's a great photo. That is super cool.
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Chapter 2: How can we optimize our daily routines?
And so they would drive around.
They basically just, they shut down big segments of the city. So that's down at the piers. And then. all this 119 million views, all this aerial footage, why not just jump between two streets in San Francisco? Yeah, my friend Mike Blayback was the one photographing all this for DC. So DC was initially skateboarding, Danny and Colin and Danny's older brother, Damon, started DC.
It is actually stood for something called drawers clothing, but DC, Danny, Colin. And DC shoes, right? And then they went snowboarding, rally car, BMX, motocross. all that was born out of essentially skateboarding and BMX early on, then X Games took off. So it's kind of like how in the 90s, skateboarding was really small. Then it blew up, then it dies a little bit and it keeps coming back.
Now it's in the Olympics. So when I got into neuroscience, That's my official job. I'm professor of neuroscience up at Stanford. I don't currently run my lab anymore. I tooled that down in 2023 so I could focus more on the podcast, but I still teach medical students, graduate students and undergraduates. Okay. So you're still practicing? Yes. Yeah.
And I ran a lab for more than a decade and really got into science when I was in college. I decided, listen, I'm not going to become a professional skateboarder, not a musician. I got to do something with my life. I got into biology and psychology and I started working in a lab. And so even when I got into neuroscience, it was early.
There was no such thing called a neuroscience degree or a neuroscientist. There was biology, there was genetics, but there wasn't something official. Then came the decade of the brain, and now neuroscience is everywhere.
Yeah, you hear about it a lot.
Yeah.
But you didn't hear about it 10 years ago, for sure.
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Chapter 7: What can we learn from skateboarding about motivation?
But how can those scientists be manipulated as a group? Like when you look back at, like, how can that happen? Like, is it journals that are compromised? Is it the medical energy that gets compromised? But how do you have like a whole, you know?
Sure. So I'll try and keep this relatively succinct. This is a whole landscape and it's something that is like really deep and important to me as a science communicator, health communicator who has friends on both sides, you know, of these debates. The most important thing to understand is scientists are trying to figure out the truth.
They are also human and they're highly incentivized to advance their careers. One of the things that I've observed in science is not people making up data. That's exceedingly rare, but scientists, Scientists sometimes, when they don't get the answer they want in an experiment, they'll come up with reasons for why that experiment probably wasn't run right, and maybe we should discard the data.
Okay, let's say one time, when they don't get- When they don't get the answer they want, they will come up with reasons why, oh, that antibody wasn't as fresh, or the conditions weren't right, and they will start to steer the data, steer the experiment. I have observed that, okay? I've observed that a lot in my career, sadly. Okay.
Far less common are people outright making up data, what we call fudging data, just like making up numbers. There's a famous case in nanotechnology of this kid whose last name was Shon. He was like a wunderkind in the sense that he had like, it's very hard to publish papers in science or nature. This is like the Super Bowl rings of science.
I've had a couple in nature, a couple in science, and I feel immensely blessed for that. Shon was publishing 12 papers a year in nature and science. And at some point, people start looking more closely at their data, okay? And what happened? They saw that the random noise plots, random should be random, right? You don't need to be a scientist or a genius to understand that random should be random.
He was so lazy that he was replotting the random noise in two different experiments. You can't get the same random noise in two different experiments. So there are bad apples like him, he's gone now, but most scientists are trying to get it right. And yet there's this thing that we have to constantly check ourselves on. This is why you have to, what we call blind the data.
You look at it, not knowing what condition you're looking at. This is why replication is so key and the big problem in science. And I do think this new administration cares about this. It's hard to get a job as a professor for replicating work. Everyone wants to see the new thing. So a PhD student comes into my lab, they want to study something.
We rarely say, oh, let's go do what someone else did and make sure they're right. No, you pick something new. So a lot of mistakes of past get kind of baked into the field. And this is what happened in the Alzheimer's field. This is why, you know, one mistake, which probably was somebody outright fudging as well, making stuff up, kind of get woven into the lineage.
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