"if you get into a sauna the way I just described not the two hours a day but 30 minutes twice a week or three times per week you reduce the likelihood of dying of a cardiovascular event by 27% if you ..."

"huberman we meet again my friend uh we should talk on each other's podcast once a year I think we should make a deal I was just talking to the guys this is show called Lou I don't know if you know it ..."

"comedy and then we went to eat Russian food yeah and it was a particularly fun experience to go to a Russian restaurant I was the only person there that didn't speak Russian yeah and eat Russian food ..."

"cuz it's delicious but also great company something about the atmosphere is just right screw the diet screw all the things you know just like you should be doing but just throw it all out the window I..."

"pretty good again but Sunday and Monday or you just feel like you're sliding down the slope of just blood sugar disaster terrible idea or a good idea you know at the time I enjoyed it I love donuts cr..."

"now I just try and eat well most days and what's interesting is about 12 to 14 months ago I completely lost all appetite for sweets I don't know what happened I still love Savory food so meat and butt..."

"do you do with the croissant what do you do with the bread butter or is it just I actually used to I don't eat them anymore I don't have much of an appetite for them even though they're not a sweet fo..."

"occasionally I do I got it but so I put a little piece of bread underneath it not because I'm low carb strictly low carb but just because otherwise you get some funny looks that's like pasta is is a v..."

"right you see women sometimes very petite women eating steaks that are bigger than their the their skull size you know slowly they eat very slowly there and they all eat dessert too which is interesti..."

"know Sergey and Todd are on the call they're kind of pulling stuff up they just pulled up Phelps with the I forget how many calories he was eating 10,000 you know what's interesting there's some some ..."

"uh Andrew just cited his sources even on that statement cuz you're so good at I don't know how your memory works but um the only person whose memory is is better than Joe Rogan is yours but my colleag..."

"other people right yeah yeah well I actually to push back I I know there's a culture of if you you write a paper standing on the shoulders of giants is a powerful thing but there's also a culture of n..."

"find and um I think that you know at the end of the day you're as strong as your community and you can build a wonderful Community just by pointing out things that you love like these are all just lov..."

"thing it was so interesting talking to him about music and uh both on the podcast and privately and just listening to music together because when you mention a song he does this thing where he like cl..."

"no musical ability or talent I have a good ability to memorize lyrics and I Love lyrics and I love poetry so I asked him a lot of questions about musicians that I happen to love that he's worked with ..."

"one needs to do on a regular basis to get into a proper State it's not just going to come from a cup of coffee a a you know a lamp of a particular wavelength or something it's going to be those things..."

"work to do the work can you maybe uh Linger on that elucidate a little bit more your process of how you get in that space that's really interesting cuz I have to admit I do everything last minute befo..."

"course this is what he does he he produces music but he also said like you know he is the professional he said how close do you like it to be and he said it with a gentleness where I had like an exist..."

"general I think part of the art is uh refusing the world as you get a bigger audience change who you are there's one quote that I've seen out there where he says you know I'm like the talking about hi..."

"if I get very tired I start to do it still we actually know that this is related to these basil ganglia circuits for go noo you've got an accelerator in a break basically in your neural circuitry and ..."

"have so much energy that I I'm trying to speak faster than I should in order to articulate properly there are other days when I'm tired and I can't sort of keep up with my thoughts and so what I try a..."

"thing of I put my vision into panoramic Vision when I walk which is very calming and then I actually start to remind myself of the purpose of podcasting this sounds very Mission statemente but you ask..."

"me a podcast coming out soon about um heat as a tool you know sauna but some other things and in researching this I learned so much about um these heat shock proteins and the use of sauna in Finland f..."

"childlike energy and um so I want to be clear the goal is always to make the information interesting clear and actionable and if it's also surprising then there then that's a bonus but that's basicall..."

"times less so is there other places in life that you use kind of a protoc like a mental protocol to get ready many of the best areas of life are their own form of hypnosis right um you know that you'r..."

"television period uh outside of meals so most of my time was spent um you know like a stray cat uh Outdoors just running around uh playing soccer I imagine you in this like dirt or concrete lot betwee..."

"always thought anyone who had anything nice had to do something really bad to get it that that was my way view of the world because like um like I I guess I didn't understand how it's it's possible to..."

"here I was thinking I was think you know uh I really want a lot of kids I want it like a whole litter and um I was thinking if Lex has kids and I have kids then like then we can we can like pck them a..."

"it's changed in the last few years of course um but one of the great Joys was professors will stop by your office or your lab nobody set set up an appointment there's a guy when I was a professor in S..."

"them is David he's a physics Professor now people can look him up and David's one of those guys who just walk into your office he just sit down you just start talking to you he and and so there's a ki..."

"but in all seriousness that the interview ones are are a sheer pleasure the solo ones I really enjoy but they're they're their work sometimes I think like I'm going to sweat a little blood prepping fo..."

"controversial right some of them are are people that not a lot of PE that a lot of people don't like um and you you've been willing to just sit down and maybe it's the Jiu-Jitsu thing you know I don't..."

"about dictators of the past and I put myself in the mindset well how do you reveal something real about this person to themselves I think that to me and you kind of spoke to that but uh a great conver..."

"what it's working right actually feels like and that's where the audience uh can could see that like if you talk to somebody evil uh you know for me as an interviewer I have to empathize with that per..."

"was angry in little ways but then you magnify them at scale and I have to I have to go there and that's very human and then I have to look at another person from across the table from me and understan..."

"beautiful but they also happen in science when you just have a conversation and you you realize uh I feel like talking to stepen wol from I feel like we constantly realize beautiful things together on..."

"you know my podcast is not one in which we we get down to those matters you never know we might do an episode on on narcissism and sociopathy the other thing that I I took away from a conversation wit..."

"the planet um uh she's sort of synonymous with deception MH um I don't know if there have been any real interviews of her since the whole thing um I haven't followed that case I listened to the book a..."

"iPhone first came out and uh Steve Jobs was still alive and the phones were dropping calls if you held it in a particular way and his response was a little flip he said it's it's hey folks it's a phon..."

"think I think part of that part of creating a feeling would be having the robots constantly moving around and having a mind of their own because that would most closely put guests and other humans tha..."

"I think there is tremendous interest in understanding like what led her to do all that at least for some people let me say a couple things so one is at a high level let me say that she believes or her..."

"that interview so people sometime ask me about uh Vladimir zalinski and Vladimir Putin I do not bring them up lightly in terms of there's in terms of there being a path to an actual conversation that ..."

"that's a tricky thing because then the internet uh the the audience in general and just me when I listen back to my dumb self think well why are you speaking so lightly about these topics well I know ..."

"his stories are terrific um especially I really enjoyed his discussions about how he would go out and um do all these things out of a desire to please his his girlfriend mhm you know so he was in serv..."

"conversation you're you're very just having listening to your interviews you're very good conversation but the skill of conversation is really tricky I'm not being self-deprecating I'm being just obje..."

"intimidatingly calm but as you get to know him a bit you realize that his the kindness and the generosity that you sense is real um but yeah I would never in a million years uh have guessed that you g..."

"simulation so let me just speak the to several things first of all I have no boss I know I know of nor am I controlled by any intelligence agencies of Any Nation we're going to get you a dog Lex I cou..."

"why is this person with a Russian accent talking to me and show showing me so much love well because sorry to interrupt you again but um it's what we do um and it's a sign of Interest by the way to so..."

"family I would love to have uh children but I just want to finish that point cuz I'm nervous about it I'm nervous about the way people perceive what you're seeing is a forest gum type character like w..."

"be at MIT and to start posting lectures online is risky right to you know I was third or fourth man in on in terms of podcasting as an academic because you had gone on Rogan many times David Sinclair ..."

"Mark Zuckerberg he just started so there you oh yeah you guys could interes sure I mean he's actually uh I mean people listen to an episode perhaps he's a fascinating human being I listen to it it was..."

"him is exceedingly challenging so you do have this incredible ability to get to people um and for them to trust you and know you and I think it's through your authenticity and I think it's the fact th..."

"that it's one thing to to do what other people are already doing boldly it's a whole other thing to launch an entire art form or venue and you did that and uh you didn't write a book hopefully you wil..."

"heights no I'm not afraid of heights I'm I'm I just it feels like a feels like a terrible place to die yeah well first of all death anywhere is not great yeah although you know I have um a song teed u..."

"like this I don't want to drift off into the Galaxy just slowly asfixia and freezing to death that sounds horrible just like I wouldn't want to drown or burn but on a plane is okay well on a plane I m..."

"question when you're an academic doesn't come up often right well oh that's that's I just yeah there are some academics that are bold and brave it's it's not a phenotype being bold and brave in the ph..."

"and he was invited back to Colombia and NYU you know the New York Neuroscience Mafia is a real thing um and yes you know who you are and some of them are actually coming on the broadcast um they they ..."

"Realms I can say these sorts of things and I again admiration and respect but I will say that I think it's important that people in science that and kids that are curious about science understand that..."

"I've never been to high table dinner at Oxford I'm sure it's a wonderful experience I'm also not sure what purpose it serves for the world but I've never been and so I don't know what the conversation..."

"well what there uh whenever I'm in Kendall Square I've seen uh the they have those buildings there that actually tilt toward the ground these are these uh the architecture of MIT is also really impres..."

"down the weirdness a bit really even from MIT I'm very fortunate to have a lot of Leverage to where I I have completely resist the pressure but I I'm very sure that there's young faculty that with tha..."

"ideas the outof the Box thinkers including the flamboyant Behavior online uh how you choose to educate how do you choose to inspire you know people talk about freedom of speech but it's not just like ..."

"that's all uh that's all gone well Steve Steve Jobs wouldn't have um kept his job in uh acting the way he did in his 20s and 30s in today's climate but he probably would have up dated his uh his proto..."

"you know I I think I read some place that more than half of the uh job loss due to online behavior is because people were trying to be funny MH right I mean not everyone can pull off what Tim Dylan oh..."

"you just said to be true one of the I think more um toxic things in life is what's called um you know evacuative projection when people feel something and they try and evacuate it and project it onto ..."

"but it requires a certain a stable internal Rudder and um you know when we're tired or sick or angry you know we were hungry excessively hungry um all of us are less less good at it I've been positive..."

"about a venue for for parsing information so you actually posted that we're going to talk on Instagram and I I collected a bunch of the questions which reminds me of I I have to um mention Mike Jones ..."

"Mike Jones that I learned about through Joe Rogan because the first remember in the old um days of Joe Rogan when you go on the episode afterwards you'd take a picture with an object so it's was like ..."

"yeah do you use it do you cut your your one meal a day steaks with it I feel are you taking it with you on your travels exactly I actually uh used to keep it on the table but I thought it it it really..."

"if it's okay let me because it is it is a poem I um go go to often actually uh you mentioned reciting some lyrics and I'm actually going to go back to that at some point to get get a few songs that to..."

"except the will which says to them hold on if you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue I like this one and walk with Kings nor lose the common touch if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt yo..."

"a man my son thank you Andrew thank you thank you Mike for the knife is a I don't know it's a and and engraved in it yeah it's yours yours is the Earth and everything that's in it we toiled over what ..."

"interesting I think that book took him 10 years to write which is Vindication for me and for you because we're both supposed to write books and we haven't done it yeah I mean you know in some sense yo..."

"read a poem once every few days also I think if is a tough act to follow oh yeah you know oh yeah I mean that that's the richness and the I mean like you said EV every third line in there is something..."

"bit more folky so not really Punk so I love that song um bunch of songs by rans that I love yeah you know and then if I listen to instrumentals I I do um I'll listen to classical piano some dreams are..."

"they're the subconscious right I mean if you think about a Bob Dylan song or a really good Strummer song or a poem that the the words don't mean anything when read linearly but they make you feel some..."

"hours that song is fascinating Bob Marley song sung by Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer you know sometimes I think what it would be to be a fly on the wall when these guys were doing this Stu these songs ..."

"levels there they levels right uh exactly we'll leave it at that yeah and uh the interesting thing about this kind of preparing for the solo episode uh just interacting with Rick about that process of..."

"who does but I I'm embracing this whole uh developmental Arc I mean we don't de we're not children and then adults our entire life is one long developmental Arc and if you fail to embrace that you fai..."

"there's it's not just a staff of people that post stuff that's just the top level Contour there's the constant feedback and iteration of what you want it to become and trying to hold on to something t..."

"fear is the the fear of the introvert is that I don't know if I can handle so much love and Fascinating People all around it's like I don't know makes well we'll invite a few haters too well yes I mea..."

"every day your food isn't optimal um I think done in patches I could enjoy it um because it's fun to meet people from different places I'm doing a a public lecture in Copenhagen for the lunbeck founda..."

"I'm not saying this to flatter you it's true gratitude there is now a a runway for scientists to talk to people I mean you had the I always forget this guy's named the virus guy from Columbia uh Vince..."

"making like folks uh there's a difference when you say stuff uh like off the cuff and when you say stuff that's like core to your principles and you've thought about it for a very long time you talkin..."

"fascinating human nature on display there um it it's also in terms of it coming becoming a topic that a lot of people are talking about versus the war in Ukraine for example is also fascinating to wat..."

"know meet and athletic green so rattlesnakes here rattlesnake J exactly no there was a open mic it was it was uh late at night and there I was one of the only people in the audience there's a couple o..."

"potentially hazardous if people can't return from them so it's it's nice to focus not on those brain States but instead on the shifting right I do this morning I woke up a little bit earlier than I wo..."

"hypnosis in addition to that meaning I do it every other day or so 10 or 15 minutes so there's a there is there a YouTube uh one minute hypnosis or is this for the there are but inside of Revy as well..."

"positive experiences you're an Android guy so soon it should be available on Android and well then it doesn't exist for me it's only uh you know I don't get Android is the device of the people all you..."

"as you fall asleep we're going to do this now yeah yeah let's listen to it and I have created this hypnosis recording for for you to help you and this is the voice how often does the voice pop up and ..."

"do you still travel to do your podcast or generally no most people come down here most people uh but for certain situations obviously um like if you're in prison right or you're ahead of if you get ou..."

"is um there these this is a little more esoteric but uh we covered this in an episode on workplace optimization um where you place your screen is important staring down at a screen is not going to be ..."

"you've ever had a really exciting day or podcast interview or experience of any kind your system is flooded with dopamine and norepinephrine alertness and motivation and all this excitement it seems l..."

"remember anything you're not parsing time well but in that middle range almost every study shows the higher levels of autonomic arousal meaning or epinephrine adrenaline in your system the more effect..."

"following statement which I do and many people do because the data support it which is Ali Chum statement not mine which is she directs the mindbody lab at Stanford she's brilliant by the way um brill..."

"of living in the ocean of knowledge I was thinking like a pool in the summer you got the kitty pool the kids all peeing in it presumably you got the diving thing you got the high dive and all that if ..."

"behind its back so for people don't know and we're watching little Clips here to get into and it's it's a Hedgehog that is wandering about in this fog at night and can't even see a lamp the fog is so ..."

"loneliness to it like nobody understands me uh that's there that that children can can can feel cuz you're you're trying to figure out my favorite character right there I love the owl I love the owl t..."

"motor neurons getting the muscle fibers to contract more intensely or with more efficiency in other ways that's leading to these strength gains and this is why powerlifters can train every day or five..."

"such a great range of repetitions well there apparently are three ways that you stimulate hypertrophy and maybe more one is tissue micro damage to the tissue the other is through some sort of tension ..."

"something really cool so I I work out basically I go to the gym every other day on average three or four days a week I do that but generally not two days in a row it's workout next day I'll do cardio ..."

"used that as an opportunity to exp well as I was doing it I was thinking to myself okay Andy that's a 90 second Sprint because I got to the the security line I finally got TSC but that's for better th..."

"for hypertrophy higher rep and going to failure and then on off days you're going to jog for 30 to 45 minutes but for two days a week you're either at the end of your jog or whatever you're going to d..."

"the terminal so it's like functional stuff like your life going up the stairs is easier moving about all the kind just regular life yeah and I should mention that cold showers after training don't see..."

"to yeah I need to you're rushing you probably get in and and you won't even what is this what's the big deal here exactly or people pay for this I did a post right of you as a baby yeah it's an you kn..."

"in growth hormone they had people do this it's crazy they got into okay temperatures are 80 to 100° Centigrade so that's 176 degrees Fahrenheit to 212 degrees Fahrenheit for 5 to 30 minutes is the typ..."

"death due to cardiovascular events and you look at sauna use frequency using the same parameters 80 to 100 degrees Centigrade one to seven times per week basically the more often you get into the saun..."

"hot tub is going to be your next best bet and if you don't have access to that do like the wrestlers do which is you know put on two sets of uh sweats and a hoodie and a and a stocking cap and wrap yo..."

"feel good it binds to these mu opioid receptors in the body you have dorphin which is the terrible feeling that you get when you're in really hot temperatures it's also the terrible effect that alcoho..."

"of an echo in the son I'm sure we can take out the Reverb uh so Sergey wants to ask you about sex performance uh very journalistic very hardcore hitting questions that we have here in the book general..."

"then this sorry the episode on sexual development was about how the brain and body become organized in certain ways how the brain becomes organized if you have X chromosomes or Y chromosomes or Etc so..."

"ejaculation what ends up happening is there's a rebounding of the parasympathetic nervous system which it leads to oftentimes people feeling very relaxed or or falling asleep so I'm going to do a Ser ..."

"that women because of their menstrual cycles early on start to talk to one another about changes in physiology and psychology as a function of this 28 day cycle that they all experience sooner or late..."

"well here's the uncomfortable reality Freud was at least right about one thing which is that the brain circuitry that you used to develop attachments to your caregivers mother and father or other care..."

"psychoanalysis that gender is interchangeable sex is interchangeable so for instance let's say you had a wonderful relation let's say this H let's take a hypothetical person okay I'm truly not referri..."

"of sexual interactions it's prepubertal excuse me and so um there are a lot of interesting examples and data to support this um the book attached is a pretty interesting book by uh two psychologists o..."

"common but it's more common yeah and you know obviously that's a way of bypassing some of these more primitive emotions about jealousy Etc and leveraging them towards maybe even ongoing relationships ..."

"relationships uh somebody suggested to do a part three of why Lex is single there's a running joke about this uh so yeah why but I can answer it in part right yeah because well partially because you'r..."

"relationship too you have to make sure you really want that information and it's not just about people's past right if you ask somebody how they really feel about something about you and they tell you..."

"circuitry that is as primitive and basic as hunger thirst the desire for heat when we're cold the desire for cold when we're overly warm it's a it's dorphin I mean when somebody leaves like the you kn..."

"they'll say we got lucky or it was it's been hard or this and that I think external conditions being a little tougher is helpful for a couple hardship I do I do because I think that you rally you know..."

"the love of your life of my life this is this is uh why alxa single response why any advice yeah actually this comes from a friend of mine who is in a really excellent marriage um with great kids and ..."

"think about it that way they they either fall into something or they they don't see the benefit of coupling up I think that the pandemic um tuned people's awareness to the fact that some things are in..."

"sort of like you kind of backpedal from that and you go what has to happen how you get first engineer and think from first principles about love Andrew you're uh thank you for being my friend thank yo..."

"did so thank you and for doing what you do like you you are brave and you're first man in and you're just continue to do it just what as my postto advisor used to say whatever you're doing just keep g..."