2025-11-20
36 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.
Today's episode is about the biology, psychology and practices of social bonding.
From the day we are born until the day we die,
the quality of our social bonds dictates much of our quality of life.
It should therefore be no surprise that our brain and indeed much of our entire nervous system is wired for social bonds.
Today we are going to talk about those brain and nervous system circuitries.
We're also going to talk about the neurochemicals and hormones that underlie their function.
And we are going to touch on a number of important and actionable tools that you can apply in everyday life.
And I'm confident that you will come away from today's episode with tremendous knowledge about how you function.
For instance, if you're an introvert or an extrovert, why is that?
Turns out there may be a neurochemical basis for that.
Believe it or not, there's biology around that now and it's excellent peer reviewed work.
Now an important feature of biology generally,
but in particular as it relates to social bonding is that The neural circuits,
meaning the brain areas and neurons and the hormones, things like oxytocin,
which we'll talk about today,