The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.
Essentials: How to Control Your Metabolism by Thyroid & Growth Hormone
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explain how two key hormones control metabolism and discuss tools to enhance their levels to improve metabolic health.
I discuss the pathways through which the brain and body interact to produce thyroid hormone and growth hormone, and how these hormones influence essential processes like tissue growth and repair, body composition, and energy production. I explain how thyroid hormone levels are influenced by key nutrients, such as iodine, selenium, and L-tyrosine. I also explain how practices such as exercise, sleep, meditation and sauna can offset age-related declines in growth hormone, to optimize overall hormone health and metabolism.
Huberman Lab Essentials are short episodes (approximately 30 minutes) focused on essential science and protocol takeaways from past Huberman Lab episodes. Essentials will be released every Thursday, and our full-length episodes will still be released every Monday.
Read the full episode show notes at hubermanlab.com.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 Huberman Lab Essentials; Hormones & Metabolism
00:01:41 Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Thyroid
00:03:22 Thyroid Hormone Functions, Tools: Iodine, Selenium, L-Tyrosine
00:07:55 Sponsor: Eight Sleep
00:09:27 Thyroid Hormone, Glucose & Metabolism; Thyroid Hormone Disorders
00:11:45 Growth Hormone Functions, Prescription Growth Hormone
00:14:41 Growth Hormone Release, Tools: Sleep & Bedtime Fasting
00:16:07 Growth Hormone Release, Tool: Meditation
00:18:21 Sponsor: AG1
00:19:24 Growth Hormone Release, Tools: Exercise, Warm-Up, Glucose, Cool Down
00:22:04 Growth Hormone Supplements, Arginine
00:24:07 Offsetting Age-Related Growth Hormone Decline
00:25:05 Temperature & Growth Hormone, Tool: Sauna Protocol
00:29:23 Sponsor: David Protein
00:30:38 Peptides, Sermorelin, Secretagogues, Risk
00:33:26 Recap & Key Takeaways