2025-02-03
3 小时 22 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 Dr.
Ellen Langer.
Dr.
Ellen Langer is a professor of psychology at Harvard University and one of the world's leading pioneers in the mind body connection.
More specifically, how our thoughts impact our health.
Dr.
Ellen Langer was one of the first people to systematically explore the mind body connection with scientific rigor.
Her laboratories made a large number of truly fascinating findings.
For instance, today you'll learn about a study that Dr.
Langer did in which she brought quite old people into her laboratory, or rather she designed a laboratory such that people lived in this laboratory.
But the laboratory itself was designed to resemble the environment and everything from the types of furniture, the types of dishes, the types of music, et cetera, that those people had lived in 20 years prior.
When those subjects lived in that laboratory for less than one week, the change in the environment and their interaction with that environment led them to have far more mobility, better cognitive function and a large number of other markers of biological aging reversed, which is absolutely remarkable and speaks to the incredible power that the mind has over our biology.
The that's just one example of the sorts of experiments that Dr.
Langer has done.
Again with a tremendous amount of scientific rigor.
So today Dr.
Langer and I talk about how the acquisition of knowledge, just simply learning about certain biological mechanisms as well as your mindset about various aspects of your health and well being can powerfully dictate your health and well being.
We talk about longevity, we talk about exercise and weight loss.