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Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman's Huberman Lab podcast, long form conversations on science and science based tools for health, performance, and the brain.

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Andrew Huberman

Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle Gillett

Andrew Huberman and physician Dr. Kyle Gillett give a full, quantitative field guide to optimizing male hormones across a lifespan. They start with what to measure in blood work (testosterone, SHBG, free testosterone, DHT) and work outward through diet, fiber, caloric restriction, stress, and exercise, then into the supplement stack that raises hormones without suppressing your own production: creatine, betaine, L-carnitine, boron, Tongkat Ali, and Fadogia agrestis, with specific doses. The back half covers low dose testosterone therapy and its whole body monitoring burden, clomiphene and SERMs, alcohol and aromatase, low dose tadalafil for the prostate, and how to fight hair loss without wrecking libido. The recurring theme is that a higher testosterone number is not automatically better, and the prescription tools demand real monitoring.

HealthScienceJul 2, 2026
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Andrew Huberman

Movement Practice to Strengthen Your Mind-Body Connection | Ido Portal

Andrew Huberman hosts movement teacher Ido Portal for a nearly three hour conversation that is less about exercise than about the internal models the nervous system runs. Portal argues the real object of practice is the body, emotional, and conceptual schemas, which either refine toward high resolution or harden toward a black and white world he links to depression. They work through his distinctions of discipline versus will, motivation versus play, and low versus high resolution, with practical protocols like the practice of will, the softening loop for resisting pulls like social media, and holding multistability. Huberman brings the neuroscience alongside, the anterior midcingulate cortex, allostasis and the body budget, antagonistic hypothalamic circuits, awe research, and fast sensory and motor plasticity, keeping it grounded and actionable. The result is a paradigm shift toward treating the whole day as practice and keeping every model refined by novelty and attention.

HealthSciencePhilosophyJun 29, 2026