Andrew Huberman

I mean, there's too much to count, but really basic things that someone could start doing to construct habits that could lead to better things.

So it would be if someone's just hearing of Andrew Huberman, it'd be better to to really dive into his content.

But

what have you applied? You've applied you've applied the morning walk before coffee, sunlight in the eyes.

We were chatting about Marek Health.

This isn't a plug, but obviously your testosterone numbers going through the roof and the Huberman meme, people chatting about optimisation.

I guess they do have Derek running it, but still riding that meme movement.

Yeah.

They're all within three or four years of 50 years old.

Brian Johnson, Dave Asprey, Peter Attia, Andrew Huberman, who's the one I'm forgetting? There's one other...

They're all that age.

So what is it about social science versus physical science when it comes to longevity? What are some things that you think we should know as midlifers that relate to both the physical science and the social science side of what would actually increase our vitality and help us to live a longer, healthier life?

So the diaphragm, through this effect, is creating support for the spine.

It's also, depending on how we're breathing, Huberman popularized the idea that our eyes and our breath are the two fastest ways to actually affect or influence our nervous system.

um by the way that we're breathing we can begin to regulate our nervous system and our tone the diaphragm hugs happens to be in the deep frontal line which is uh one of the major hubs of the myofascial chains that we're seeing everywhere now right in this in this new fascial awareness that's happening we're realizing that the diaphragm is actually a key piece in one of the central columns of this tensegrity structure that's happening Um, So diaphragm's regulating the nervous system.

It's organizing pressure, the fluid pressure which supports the spine.

And normal life is not that.

Andrew Huberman has a great line.

He says, addiction is the progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure.

Mm-hmm.

So don't do that.

But it's really great for if you have fitness goals or you want to... become feel more alert throughout your day check out the video I'm going to get to you so that way I don't have to go through all that okay the next thing is morning sunlight I adopted this from Huberman some years ago and I love it because if I this actually getting outside and this will give you so much energy over a period of time if you'll get it that day that you do it the first day that you do it But you'll continue to get it if you have everything else in mind too.

That is going outside in the first hour after you wake up.

I don't care if it's cloudy out.

in your habit forming, moving forward, in your goal setting, in your discipline, right? Your level of discipline, how much you say that you have or how much you think that you have, quote unquote, willpower, if you will.

By doing these little tests for yourself and like pushing through them, you actually create, like I said, more resilience.

Huberman actually talks about this and I did not know.

I always thought that I just played these games with my silly little games with myself and I didn't know that there was much benefit to doing it other than I knew that I was doing a little bit better than I did the time before or something like that.

I think that makes total sense.

Yeah, I think somebody, it might have been, It might've been Ryan Holiday or it might've been Huberman or somebody, but somebody was talking about it and they said, man, they did a, there was a study that was done of people who were on their deathbed, which sounds morbid, but just stick with me.

Like it was a study that was done and they said the number one regret they had was everything they never tried.

Yeah.

And one final thought on this idea of how can we help ourselves to take action on the things that our intuition and subconscious is calling for is, I'm connecting an idea that I picked up a couple years ago.

It's from an Andrew Huberman podcast episode about how to set and achieve goals.

And one of the parts of that podcast episode, he talked about this idea of this study that was done from some university, and they were trying to study the impact of positive visualization, right? Like how effective is positive visualization to achieving your goals? And they talked about they did this research where one group did nothing.

One group did positive visualization and one group did negative visualization, which is like imagining what failure would look like.