2025-03-20
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.
This podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford.
It is however, part of my desire and effort to bring you zero cost to consumer information about science and science related tools to the general public.
We just closed out the episodes on hormones.
Now we are going to talk about how to optimize physical performance and skill learning.
There are so many variables to physical performance and we can manage physical performance and skill learning from a variety of contexts.
I made just a short list of some of the things that come to mind that can powerfully impact physical performance and skill learning.
Some of them are what I would consider foundational.
They allow you to show up with your current ability and if you were to disrupt those, you would perform less well.
So things like getting a good night's sleep, things like being properly hydrated, things like being well nourished.
There are supplements, there are drugs, there are different ways to breathe.
There are so many tools related to mindset visualization.
It's just a vast space, but it's not infinite.
And there are a few things in the list of things that can impact and even optimize physical performance and skill learning that have an outsized effect that any of you can use.
So today we are going to focus on what I believe to be one of the most powerful tools to improve physical performance and skill learning and recovery.
We'll talk about about why that's important and that's temperature.
Believe it or not, temperature is the most powerful variable for improving physical performance and for recovery.
There are two aspects to temperature, of course.
There's heat and there's cold.