2024-10-07
2 小时 29 分钟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.
My guest today is Doctor Craig Conover.
Doctor Craig Conover is a medical doctor who did his training at Brown University and Thomas Jefferson University.
He is a world expert in what he refers to as performance medicine, which involves the use of peptides and other therapies for improving mental health, physical health, and performance.
Now, many of you have perhaps heard of peptide therapies, perhaps some of you have not.
A peptide is simply a small protein.
So insulin is a peptide.
We have many different thousands of peptides in our brain and body, and they perform a variety of different roles.
Doctor Conover's expertise is in the use of exogenous, that is, peptides.
That one takes exogenous peptides for activating multiple pathways in the brain and body to augment health.
Now, of course, peptides such as insulin have been used for many years now to treat things like diabetes.
But today we talk about novel peptides, including glp one.
So these are glucagon like peptide analogs, things like ozempic and mungaro, which I realize are a bit controversial.
However, today we talk about the microdosing of those peptides.
We talk about those peptides combined with other peptides, as well as behavioral practices to offset the muscle loss associated with them.
And then we dive into some lesser known peptides, but ones that are growing in use.
For instance, bpc 157, or body protection compound 157, which is used to treat inflammation, to accelerate wound healing, and a variety of other things.
Then we discuss the use of peptides specifically to increase growth hormone secretion during sleep, as well as some peptides that can actually increase rapid eye movement sleep dramatically.