Huberman Lab
Huberman Lab
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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.

Dr. Jack Feldman: Breathing for Mental & Physical Health & Performance | Episode 54

January 10, 2022 2:23:36 0.0 MB Downloads: 0

This episode my guest is Dr. Jack Feldman, Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles and a pioneering world expert in the science of respiration (breathing). We discuss how and why humans breathe the way we do, the function of the diaphragm and how it serves to increase oxygenation of the brain and body. We discuss how breathing influences mental state, fear, memory, reaction time, and more. And we discuss specific breathing protocols such as box-breathing, cyclic hyperventilation (similar to Wim Hof breathing), nasal versus mouth breathing, unilateral breathing, and how these each affect the brain and body. We discuss physiological sighs, peptides expressed by specific neurons controlling breathing, and magnesium compounds that can improve cognitive ability and how they work. This conversation serves as a sort of "Master Class" on the science of breathing and breathing-related tools for health and performance.

 

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Timestamps:

  • 00:00:00 Introducing Dr. Jack Feldman
  • 00:03:05 Sponsors: Thesis, Athletic Greens, Headspace, Our Breath Collective
  • 00:10:35 Why We Breathe 
  • 00:14:35 Neural Control of Breathing: “Pre-Botzinger Complex”
  • 00:16:20 Nose vs Mouth Breathing
  • 00:18:18 Skeletal vs. Smooth Muscles: Diaphragm, Intracostals & Airway Muscles
  • 00:20:11 Two Breathing Oscillators: Pre-Botzinger Complex & Parafacial Nucleus
  • 00:26:20 How We Breathe Is Special (Compared to Non-Mammals)
  • 00:33:40 Stomach & Chest Movements During Breathing
  • 00:36:23 Physiological Sighs, Alveoli Re-Filling, Bombesin
  • 00:49:39 If We Don’t Sigh, Our Lung (& General) Health Suffers
  • 01:00:42 Breathing, Brain States & Emotions 
  • 01:05:34 Meditating Mice, Eliminating Fear 
  • 01:11:00 Brain States, Amygdala, Locked-In Syndrome, Laughing
  • 01:16:25 Facial Expressions
  • 01:19:00 Locus Coeruleus & Alertness
  • 01:29:40 Breath Holds, Apnea, Episodic Hypoxia, Hypercapnia
  • 01:35:22 Stroke, Muscle Strength, TBI
  • 01:38:08 Cyclic Hyperventilation
  • 01:39:50 Hyperbaric Chambers
  • 01:40:41 Nasal Breathing, Memory, Right vs. Left Nostril
  • 01:44:50 Breathing Coordinates Everything: Reaction Time, Fear, etc.
  • 01:57:13 Dr. Feldman’s Breathwork Protocols, Post-Lunch 
  • 02:02:05 Deliberately Variable Breathwork: The Feldman Protocol
  • 02:06:29 Magnesium Threonate & Cognition & Memory 
  • 02:18:27 Gratitude for Dr. Feldman’s Highly Impactful Work
  • 02:20:53 Zero-Cost Support, Sponsors, Patreon, Instagram, Twitter, Thorne


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