
Episode Transcript: #1513 - Andrew Huberman
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Andrew, how are you? What's happening man? Doing great. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
We're excited to talk to you about this. Just sort of for an introduction, tell people what you do.
So I'm a neuroscientist, I'm meaning I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology,
Stanford School of Medicine. So I run a laboratory. I teach a little bit. I teach neuroanatomy to
medical students, but mainly my lab does research. So I've got students and postdocs, and we're trying
to figure out the answers to two problems. The first problem is how to regenerate the damaged
nervous system, in particular the connections between the eye and the brain to restore vision to
the blind. So that's a big mission of ours. And to prevent vision loss in people that are losing
their vision. And the other thing that we're doing is we're focusing a lot on stress and other states
of mind. So I'm obsessed with the idea that all our states of mind come from the brain and the body,
and we're trying to figure out what happens in the brain and body when we're stressed and how to
control it. What happens in the brain and body when we are creative and how to control it.
And essentially for all states of mind, but rather than try and tackle the really high level
stuff like flow and states of awe, we're really focused on these states of stress and things like
focus and the ability to think clearly and do certain things athletically or cognitively,
because first of all, there's a lot of suffering. There are a lot of people out there that are
suffering from an inability to control their states of mind. And also there's great potential for
people who aren't suffering to be able to create and perform and do better things once we can
understand how those states come about. That's an interesting way of putting it,
suffering because they can't control their states of mind. That is the case, but that's not like a