2026-09-03
33 分钟Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent
and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance.
I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
And now for my discussion with Dr. Gina Poe.
Dr. Gina Poe, welcome.
Thank you.
I've really been looking forward to this conversation.
I know that many people are going to be excited to learn about your work as it relates to sleep,
as it relates to problem solving, creativity, and a number of other important topics.
To start things off, I would love for you to educate
us a bit about this thing that we are all familiar with and yet very few of us understand, which is sleep.
Could you describe the various phases of sleep that exist?
What distinguished them?
And perhaps frame this within the context of what would a perfect night's sleep look like?
All right.
So sleep is really different from wakefulness and in fact can't be replaced.
By any state of wakefulness that we've been able to come up with so far.
Our brain chemistry is completely different.
And in the different stages of sleep, which there are, is non-REM and REM are the two major states of sleep.
Those two states are entirely different from one another too.