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: Manage Stress & Build Resilience | Dr. Elissa Epel
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. Elissa Epel, PhD, a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). We discuss how acute and chronic stress affect the body and brain, including their links to cellular aging and mitochondrial health. We also explain tools to reduce rumination, reframe stress as a challenge and build resilience, as well as how radical acceptance and a sense of purpose can help us navigate stressors we cannot change.
Read the full episode show notes at hubermanlab.com.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Elissa Epel
(00:00:22) Good & Bad Stress, Stress Responses
(00:01:55) Rumination, Body Awareness
(00:03:23) Tools: Mindset, Body & Environment
(00:04:51) Acute & Chronic Stress, Energy & Recovery
(00:07:44) Sponsor: Eight Sleep
(00:09:27) Healthy Aging, Purpose & Brain Health
(00:10:54) Stress Resilience, Threat vs. Challenge
(00:14:40) Tool: Reframe Stress, “Stress Shields”
(00:16:54) Sponsor: AG1
(00:18:30) Mitochondrial Health, Caregiving & Daily Mood
(00:21:24) Chronic Stress, Tool: Radical Acceptance
(00:25:19) Tool: “Drop the Rope”, Uncontrollable Stressors
(00:26:48) Uncertainty, Tool: Posture & Slow Breathing
(00:29:10) Sponsor: ROKA
(00:30:34) Taking Action vs. Letting Go
(00:32:55) Journaling, Narrative & Purpose
(00:34:15) Acknowledgements
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