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Andrew Huberman

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Andrew, how are you? What's happening man? Doing great. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

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We're excited to talk to you about this. Just sort of for an introduction, tell people what you do.

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So I'm a neuroscientist, I'm meaning I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology,

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Stanford School of Medicine. So I run a laboratory. I teach a little bit. I teach neuroanatomy to

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medical students, but mainly my lab does research. So I've got students and postdocs, and we're trying

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to figure out the answers to two problems. The first problem is how to regenerate the damaged

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nervous system, in particular the connections between the eye and the brain to restore vision to

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the blind. So that's a big mission of ours. And to prevent vision loss in people that are losing

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their vision. And the other thing that we're doing is we're focusing a lot on stress and other states

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of mind. So I'm obsessed with the idea that all our states of mind come from the brain and the body,

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and we're trying to figure out what happens in the brain and body when we're stressed and how to

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control it. What happens in the brain and body when we are creative and how to control it.

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And essentially for all states of mind, but rather than try and tackle the really high level

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stuff like flow and states of awe, we're really focused on these states of stress and things like

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focus and the ability to think clearly and do certain things athletically or cognitively,

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because first of all, there's a lot of suffering. There are a lot of people out there that are

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suffering from an inability to control their states of mind. And also there's great potential for

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people who aren't suffering to be able to create and perform and do better things once we can

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understand how those states come about. That's an interesting way of putting it,

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suffering because they can't control their states of mind. That is the case, but that's not like a

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