Andrew Huberman - The Frontier of Neurotechnology - [Invest Like the Best, EP.494]
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With the caveat that Elon represents the apex of being able to do multiple, huge things simultaneously. And I don't think he has any peers in that regard. In fact, one of the best multi billionaire investors from the Bay Area who may have gone to Stanford and may have been part of the PayPal early team has asked me, how is it that Elon does this? I'm like, I can't tell you. Like physiologically? Physiologically. I mean, there are examples throughout history of people who seem to require less sleep, they just have more energy, and most people can get their energy up. There are lot of healthy wa
Yeah, can we go deeper in that one? Because to be very selfish about it, if I was to self diagnose, the biggest problem I have is downshifting. Sometimes where it'll take literally four hours to go from a crazy, exciting, awesome day to literally even be able to fall asleep or just like stop the mind. If I could bestow myself with any gift, it would be what you're describing. So what is the research there of how to So do
in terms of sleep, there are a couple of prerequisites for sleep. There are a bunch of don'ts. So obviously you don't want to drink caffeine too late. Being under too much bright light late in the day can make it difficult, but a lot of us can't control that. Alcohol, cannabis, these things impair the quality of your sleep, but help you get to sleep. We all know that by now. But in terms of being able to turn your thoughts off, this is a very, very difficult thing for people, for good reasons. The brain wants to think, plan, remember, and organize itself around what's coming next, because such
Since you've been covering it for so long, I'm curious what you think the biggest challenge or problem or issue is facing your whole field. Like, I think about this as the quest to learn and teach, to understand our health and our well-being and ways of making it better, what is the biggest challenge facing the field today, do
you think? I mean, I feel like the public discourse around health and longevity is a fucking disaster. It is a bunch of clowns and people are doubling and tripling down on the theatrics. I'm not saying I get everything right or that I have all the answers. I'm definitely not saying that. I got into this at the right time, but the downside is that it was so devoid of anyone else. There were people talking about health only in their area that they worked on in their lab, but not broadly. That, you know, the bar for entry in public discourse around health is basically zero. You know, it's like yo
How about on the research side? Biggest problem facing the field.
Well, think the coolest problem that's also the biggest problem is how we can non invasively write to the nervous system in So sleep and waking my best friend from childhood, Eddie Chang, is chair of neurosurgery at UCSF. He's a bioengineer. He's doing things similar ish to what Neuralink is doing, removing brain tumors and this kind of thing. I've been with him to surgeries, like
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