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 Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior | Dr. Noam Sobel
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. Noam Sobel, PhD, a Professor of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an expert on the human sense of smell. We discuss how the brain processes odors and how smell shapes our lives more than we realize, influencing everything from who we become friends with to how we experience emotions, hormones and aggression. Dr. Sobel also shares his lab’s groundbreaking work on digitizing smell and future technologies that could enable noninvasive disease detection through body odors.
Read the full episode show notes at hubermanlab.com.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Noam Sobel
(00:00:20) Biology of Smell (Olfaction)
(00:04:32) Human Smell, Social Interaction, Handshaking
(00:08:31) Sponsor: LMNT
(00:10:03) Friendship, Body Odor
(00:14:04) Human Chemosignals, Smell of Fear & Contagion
(00:15:48) Aggression, Chemosignals, Men vs Women, Babies
(00:20:38) Sponsor: AG1
(00:21:51) Tears, “Chemical Blanket”, Testosterone
(00:25:37) Digitizing Smells
(00:28:25) Sponsor: Eight Sleep
(00:29:48) Creating Digital Odors; Future Medical Diagnostics
(00:33:43) Acknowledgments
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