How to Rewire Your Brain For Sleep with Dr. Andrew Huberman

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medical school, they taught us we can’t regenerate brain cells. If
you stayed up too late studying or did drugs, you’d lose precious
connections and that was that. Now, luckily, we know that isn’t
true. There are multiple ways to encourage the plasticity of the
brain at any age, to enhance everything from sleep to learning.
Most people don’t realize that sleep is a keystone of health. When
we’re sleep-deprived, it’s really hard to eat well or to have the
energy to exercise. It’s hard to think straight. It’s even hard to
stay in a good mood or have a positive outlook on life.
Understanding the way the brain and our neurotransmitters work
means we can hack our sleep to not just feel amazing but to level
up our focus, skills, and knowledge.    Today on The
Doctor’s Farmacy, I talk to Dr. Andrew Huberman about the
body-brain connection and how small actions can have huge payoffs
for our brain health. Dr. Huberman is a neuroscientist and tenured
Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford
University School of Medicine. He has made numerous important
contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function,
and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system
to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills, and cognitive
functioning.    Dr. Huberman is a McKnight Foundation and
Pew Foundation Fellow and was awarded the Cogan Award in 2017,
which is given to the scientist making the largest discoveries in
the study of vision. His lab’s most recent work focuses on the
influence of vision and respiration on human performance and brain
states such as fear and courage. Work from the Huberman Laboratory
at Stanford University School of Medicine has been published in top
journals including Nature, Science, and Cell and has been featured
in TIME, BBC, Scientific American, Discover, and other top media
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Here are more of the details from our interview:  What happens
during the primary sleep and waking states (18:09) How states of
alertness and calmness affect our ability to do certain tasks
(21:51) Getting and avoiding bright light exposure at various
points in the day is vitally important for sleep (28:24) Supporting
sleep with apigenin (or chamomile extract), magnesium threonate,
magnesium bisglycinate, and waking state hypnosis (39:17) Why
you’re waking up in the middle of the night and unable to fall back
asleep (42:01) Eating for quality sleep (45:32) Neuroplasticity and
restoring brain function at any age (1:00:17) The keys to learning
new skills, enhancing memory, changing personality, and
emotionality (1:06:11) Tools to overcome the effects of technology
on the brain (1:21:49) Pharmaceuticals, supplements, and dietary
habits to optimize focus, learning, and physical skill building
(1:27:03) Learn more about Dr. Andrew Huberman at
https://hubermanlab.com/ and follow him on Facebook @hubermanlab,
on Instagram @hubermanlab, and on Twitter @hubermanlab.