Tools for Managing Stress & Anxiety

Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast where we discuss science and science based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. This podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford. It is, however, part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to consumer information about science and science related tools to the general public. In keeping with that theme, I'd like to thank the sponsors of today's podcast. Our first sponsor is InsideTracker. InsideTracker analyzes your blood and DNA to give you an accurate assessment of your health and your biological age. There are many things about our health that can only be analyzed from blood and DNA tests. I've been getting my blood assessed for many years now and about a year ago I switched to InsideTracker. What I like about InsideTracker is that you get all this information back about metabolic factors, endocrine factors, et cetera that are really important to your health. But unlike a lot of blood tests where you just get all the numbers back and it tells you whether or not things are high, normal or low. InsightTracker also has this really useful and really easy to use dashboard that takes the information for your blood and DNA tests and points you toward particular behavioral, nutritional and and other sorts of protocols that you can use to get the numbers where you want them for your health. If you'd like to try InsideTracker you can go to InsideTracker.com huberman and they will give you 25% off any of their programs. Again, their programs allow you to assess your health from the inside things that you could just never assess from any kind of test that didn't involve blood and DNA. And it also has this really interesting feature that it can measure your inner age, which is based on biology. You can. Your chronological age of course is very informative about your health and where you ought to be in terms of health metrics. But people vary. We know people, of course that are in their late 90s who are doing well. We know people that are in their 50s who are struggling or even in their 20s. So blood and DNA are the way to analyze your health. That's my belief. That's why I use InsideTracker. So go to InsideTracker.com huberman to get 25% off any of their products and use Huberman at checkout. Our second sponsor of today's episode is Helix Sleep. Helix Sleep makes mattresses and pillows that are ideally suited to your needs for the best night's Sleep possible. I switched to using a Helix mattress and Helix pillow this last year and I'm sleeping better than I ever have before. The way that Helix mattresses work and the reason they're different is that they are tailored to your individual sleep style. Your your sleep style can be assessed by going to their website. You take a brief two minute questionnaire quiz asks you questions like do you sleep on your back or your side or your stomach? Maybe you don't know or maybe you move around a lot during the night. It also asks you questions such as do you tend to run hot or wake up cold? Things of that sort. And then they tailor a particular mattress to your sleep needs. For me, I match to the so called Dusk Dusk mattress and I love it. I sleep better than ever. And right now if you want to try Helix Sleep you can go to helixsleep.com huberman and if you do that you'll get $200 off your order plus two free pillows. They also have a great warranty. They have a 10 year warranty on their mattresses. If you don't like the mattress for any reason, they'll pick it up for free from your home and they just make the whole thing really easy to try and determine whether or not it's right for you. So again, it's helixsleep.comhuberman to get $200 off and two free on your first order. Some of you have asked how you can help support the podcast in yet other ways besides just checking out our sponsors. We really appreciate the question and we've set up a patreon account@patreon.com andrewhuberman which allows you to donate to the podcast at a variety of different levels. We have for instance the 5 HTP, which is in honor of serotonin. 5 HTP it the name for serotonin that it allows you to donate $5 per month. We have the Circadian, which as many of you of course will know.