2026-09-10
35 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. Oded Rahavi.
Oded, thank you so much for being here.
Totally, my pleasure.
Today, what I mainly want to talk about is...
Incredible questions that you probe in your lab which are incredibly significant
for each and all of our lives i think most people have a general understanding
of what genes are what rna is and so on but maybe you could explain to people
in very basic terms and i'll just preface all this by saying that i think most people understand
that if they have two blue-eyed parents that there's a higher probability that they their offspring
will have blue eyes than brown eyes but most people generally understand and accept
that if they spend part of their life um let's say studying architecture that if they have children
that there's no real genetic reason we assume that their children would somehow be better at architecture
because they contain the knowledge through the dna of their parents they might be exposed
to it in the home so-called nature nurture also nurture in that case but that they wouldn't inherit knowledge
today i'm hoping you can explain to us why eye color but not knowledge is thought to be inherited
and the huge landscape of interesting questions that this opens up including some evidence
that Contrary to what we might think, certain types of knowledge at the level of cells and systems can be inherited.