I answer questions submitted by listeners about topics ranging from how to ensure great sleep after nighttime exercise, effective no-caffeine pre-workouts (that also improve your sleep quality), neuroscience-supported tools for improving your memory and sense of smell, nutrition and supplementation for improving female and male fertility, the link between (peri)menopause and mental health, accelerating recovery from surgery, how to find your life’s passion, and more.
Please note that if your question was not answered this time, we will keep it to consider for future Q&A episodes. A special thank you to everyone who submitted a question!
Articles
- Hormonal responses and adaptations to resistance exercise and training (Sports Medicine)
- Association of L-α Glycerylphosphorylcholine With Subsequent Stroke Risk After 10 Years (JAMA Network Open)
- Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal (Cell Reports Medicine)
- Transition from dim to bright light in the morning induces an immediate elevation of cortisol levels (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism)
- The human circadian system adapts to prior photic history (The Journal of Physiology)
- No evidence of dehydration with moderate daily coffee intake: a counterbalanced cross-over study in a free-living population (PLOS ONE)
- The effects of cardiovascular exercise on human memory: a review with meta-analysis (Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
- The critical importance of retrieval for learning (Science)
- Test-enhanced learning: taking memory tests improves long-term retention (Psychological Science)
- Retrieval practice produces more learning than elaborative studying with concept mapping (Science)
- Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology (Psychological Science in the Public Interest)
- Poor human olfaction is a 19th-century myth (Science)
- The sniff is part of the olfactory percept (Chemical Senses)
- Effects of olfactory training in patients with olfactory loss (The Laryngoscope)
- Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status (Cell)
- Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: principal results from the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial (JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association))
- The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials and Clinical Practice: A Review (JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association))
- Hormone replacement therapy and the association with coronary heart disease and overall mortality: clinical application of the timing hypothesis (The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
- View through a window may influence recovery from surgery (Science)
- The effect of sunlight on postoperative analgesic medication use: a prospective study of patients undergoing spinal surgery (Psychosomatic Medicine)
Books
- The Fertility Formula: Take Control of Your Reproductive Future by Natalie Crawford, MD
Other Resources
Huberman Lab Episodes Mentioned
- Optimal Protocols for Studying & Learning
- Tools to Enhance Working Memory & Attention
- Dr. Noam Sobel: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior
- How to Optimize Fertility in Males & Females
- Dr. Kyle Gillett: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males
- Dr. Natalie Crawford: Female Hormone Health, Fertility & Vitality
- How Women Can Improve Their Fertility & Hormone Health | Dr. Natalie Crawford
- Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
- Dr. Mary Claire Haver: How to Navigate Menopause & Perimenopause for Maximum Health & Vitality
- Dr. Sara Gottfried: How to Optimize Female Hormone Health for Vitality & Longevity
- What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health
People Mentioned
- Dorian Yates: professional bodybuilder, six-time Mr. Olympia
- Noam Sobel: professor of neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Kyle Gillett: physician, family & obesity medicine, Gillett Health
- Natalie Crawford: OB/GYN, reproductive endocrinologist, Fora Fertility
- Thaïs Aliabadi: OB/GYN, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Justin Sonnenburg: professor of microbiology & immunology, Stanford University
- Christopher Gardner: professor of medicine, Stanford University
- Joe Strummer: musician, The Clash, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
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