2024-12-26
37 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.
My name is Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
Today we're going to talk about how to change your nervous system for the better.
As you recall, your nervous system includes your brain and your spinal cord, but also all the connections that your brain and spinal cord make with the organs of your body, and all the connections that the organs of your body make with your brain and spinal cord.
This thing that we call the nervous system is responsible for everything we know.
All our behavior, all our emotions, everything we feel about ourselves and the outside world, everything we think and believe.
It's really at the center of our entire experience of life and who we are.
Fortunately, in humans, unlike in other species, we can change our nervous system by taking some very specific and deliberate actions.
And today we're really going to focus on the actions, the motor commands, and the aspects of movement and balance that allow us to change our nervous system.
It turns out that movement and balance actually provide windows or portals into our ability to change our nervous system the way we want.
Even if those changes are not about learning new movements or learning how to balance.
And soon you'll understand why.
So let's talk about the different kinds of plasticity that are available to us, because those will point directly towards the type of protocols that we should engage in to change ourselves for the better.
There is something called representational plasticity.
Representational plasticity is just your internal representation of the outside world.
We know that, for instance, if I want to reach out and grab the pen in front of me, that I need to generate a certain amount of force.
So I rarely overshoot.
I rarely miss the pen.
Okay?
So our maps of the motor world and our maps of the sensory world are merged.