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.
Control Pain & Heal Faster with Your Brain | Episode 9
In this episode, I describe the science of how and why pain arises in the body and brain, and how we can actively control our experience of pain. I discuss inflammation, stress, acupuncture, limb damage and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). I review protocols that leverage the lymphatic and nervous system to accelerate pain relief and healing in a variety of situations. Other topics discussed include how heat versus cold impacts neurons and wounds, red-light, sunlight, stem cells and more.
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Timestamps
- (00:00:00) Introduction/Avenues for Support
- (00:04:58) Deliberate Unlearning
- (00:06:43) Pain, Injury and Regeneration
- (00:09:17) A System of Touch (Somatosensation)
- (00:11:42) Pain and Injury are Dissociable
- (00:15:19) Objective versus Subjective Control of Experience
- (00:16:15) Plasticity of Perception
- (00:16:41) Lack of Pain Is Self-Destructive; So Is Excessive Pain
- (00:18:42) Homoculous, Ratonculous, Dogunculus
- (00:19:05) “Sensitivity” explained
- (00:21:30) Inflammation
- (00:22:24) Phantom Limb Pain
- (00:24:00) Top-down Relief of Pain by Vision
- (00:26:41) From Deaf to Hearing Sounds
- (00:28:10) Pain Is In The Mind & Body
- (00:29:44) Recovering Movement Faster After Injury
- (00:35:00) Don’t Over Compensate
- (00:37:34) Concussion, TBI & Brain Ageing
- (00:40:49) The Brain’s Sewage Treatment System: Glymphatic Clearance
- (00:43:05) Body Position & Angle During Sleep
- (00:44:30) Types of Exercise For Restoring & Maintaining Brain Health
- (00:47:33) Ambulance Cells in The Brain
- (00:49:20) True Pain Control by Belief and Context
- (00:51:45) Romantic Love and Pain
- (00:55:05) Dopaminergic Control of Pain
- (00:57:15) Acupuncture: Rigorous Scientific Assessment
- (01:07:32) Vagus Activation and Autonomic Control of Pain
- (01:08:30) Inflammation, Turmeric, Lead and DHT
- (01:11:40) Adrenalin: Wim Hof, Tummo, “Super-Oxygenation” Breathing
- (01:14:53) Protocols For Accelerating Tissue Repair & Managing Pain
- (01:17:55) Ice Is Not Always Nice (For Pain and Injury): Sludging, Fascia, Etc.
- (01:22:02) Chronic and/or Whole Body Pain; Red-Light Therapy, Sunlight
- (01:26:10) Glymphatics and Sleep
- (01:26:29) Stem Cells, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP: Shams, Shoulds and Should Nots
- (01:31:38) Young Blood: Actual Science
- (01:35:44) Synthesis, Support & Resources
Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac