2026-01-22
38 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.
Paul Conti.
Paul, thank you so much for being here today.
Thank you so much for having me.
We could just start off very basic and just get everyone oriented.
How should we define trauma.
I think we have to look at trauma as not anything negative that happens to us, right?
But something that overwhelms our coping skills and then leaves us different as we move forward.
So it changes the way that our brains function, right?
And then that changes evident in us as we move forward through life.
We can see it in mood, anxiety, behavior, sleep.
physical health so we can identify it and we can also see it in brain changes.
If trauma rises to the level of changing the functioning of our brains then there is almost always a reflex of guilt and shame around the trauma that can lead us and often leads us to Bury it right to avoid it,
which is exactly the opposite of what needs to be done We need to communicate and put words to what's gone on inside of us and and very often a Person knows but they're not admitting it to themselves
because they're afraid of it,