Huberman Lab podcast #56 - stress

Stress is manifold, complex; it is bad (stressing people out) yet sometimes good as it helps your body build up and release healthy nutricients and hormones.

Drug vs placebo effect is confusing. Placebo effect has been proving, but the effect of the actual drug is the combined effect of the chemical drug PLUS the placebo effect.

You only stress about things you care about; own the stress, understand why you care.

Thinking you eat healthy while you eat something "average" nutricious is counter productive; your body will think it is still hungry; and ghrelin, the hunger hormone, will not go down as fast. It's better to believe you're eating something delicious and unhealthy when you *are* eating unhealthy, because your mindset will help spur your body into thinking it had enough.

Huberman Lab podcast on sleep

 Amazing scientific podcast on sleep.

Mice and rats like to run so much: they've done a test where they put a wheel in a field and mice ran to it and started using it.  Seems they like the visual of the horizontal bars moving?!

[ep 5] Revisit! Talks about the three chemicals necessary for proper learning.

[ep 6] Error and frustration, while learning something, including motor skills like balancing, increase the plasticity of the brain.  Use this while learning? 

Also, the brain is quite adept at learning but that works better in small increments.

 

[ep 7] 

Errors while learning: embrace them. These errors signal to your brain that things need to change. Be intentional about learning (focus/tunnel vision) and be intentional about making mistakes: the more intentional and enjoyable your mistakes are, the more plasticity of your brain will improve.

Balance! Vestibular motor sensory relationship is key for heightened and/or accelerated plasticity: find things you're not good at, balance wise (yoga if you're not good at yoga). Almost falling, or actually falling, triggers your brain into very alert "need to change" mode, increasing plasticity.