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Sep 2024
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#836 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The New Scie...

Chris Williamson
About this episode

Dr Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist, Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a podcaster.

From personal dramas to scientific uproars, it's been a wild year for the biggest health & fitness podcaster in the world. And today we get to discover his biggest new insights about life, relationships and protocols.

Expect to learn whether you actually should drink coffee within 90 minutes of waking up, how to get the best sleep of your life according to the latest science, how to become a morning person, what Andrew has learned about the perils of fame and public scrutiny, what new research says on the world of longevity supplements, why you should always do your research when testing with peptides and much more…

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Timestamps:

00:00 Adenosine in the First 90 Minutes of the Day

12:15 Why Jocko Never Gets Tired

23:59 How to Become a Morning Person

35:05 Andrew’s New Daily Routine

43:39 Mentally Dealing With a Rapid News Cycle

53:46 Why Stories Are More Powerful Than Statistics

1:04:46 The Tim Kennedy Alarm Clock

1:09:55 Dissecting the Story You Tell Yourself

1:21:28 The Blessing & Curse of Good Memory

1:31:48 How Andrew Deals With Public Scrutiny

1:42:53 What it Was Like to Wake Up to the Hit Piece

1:55:28 Advice to People Going Through an Intense Time

2:04:50 The Lonely Chapter

2:14:28 Thoughts on Bryan Johnson

2:20:50 Current State of Longevity Research

2:32:00 Thinking About Your Long Arc

2:44:18 Using BPC-157 to Recover Faster

2:53:30 Why Andrew is Teaching an Undergraduate Course

2:57:47 Being a Researcher & Influencer

3:06:38 How to Follow Your Intuition More

3:24:41 What’s Next for Andrew


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