Research Renaissance: Exploring the Future of Brain Science
Oct 14, 2026 · 54 min · 12 segments
Addiction treatment has historically relied on self-reporting and intermittent check-ins. Rachel Hobert, CEO of Huml Health, joins the show to discuss how her company is using wearable technology and…
On the evidence-based, um, you know, research, how much of a foundation do we have? Are we just at the beginning of understanding this, the biology part to kind of the, the brain part? Because, and I'm probably not gonna ask this correctly, but, you know, up until a few decades ago when, you know, if you struggle with addiction or depression or let's say, you know, just, just feel happy.
There's, there's a, it seems to me, a growing body of, of research that says, "No, this is actually biological," that there is something that's going on.
Um, are, weren't you right at the cusp, and are you at the cusp with this, you know, support to the clinicians, and how, how ready are they to have this, this information?
I will say, first off, I'm so excited of where we're moving in the stigma around mental health.
Like, it used to be unheard of that you would say that you went to go see a, a therapist, and now I know girlfriends of mine that won't date a guy if they don't see a therapist.
Like, that is now the expectation is you need to be taking care of your mind along with your body.
And I mean, big T, little T trauma, we all have something going on that we need to work on.
Um, and how you choose to do that is totally up to you, and I love the fact that the stigma is starting to come down, and that's really...
However, as someone who has gone through Al-Anon myself, and I go to open group with my sister, I f- I pull away m- uh, parts of AA that are so powerful that I can apply to my daily life.
And I just think that there's never going to be one silver bullet, but as we kind of, um, as we start to bring this awareness into society today, we're moving in the right direction.
And now I hope that we're on the precipice of making this change of combining the science of the bo- body and mind, where we stop separating them, and we start treating them as one.
We're starting to do more gut, body or gut-mind research, understanding, like, listen to your gut, right? Like, that those emotions are actually physiological.
On the evidence-based, um, you know, research, how much of a foundation do we have? Are we just at the beginning of understanding this, the biology part to kind of the, the brain part? Because, and I'm probably not gonna ask this correctly, but, you know, up until a few decades ago when, you know, if you struggle with addiction or depression or let's say, you know, just, just feel happy.
There's, there's a, it seems to me, a growing body of, of research that says, "No, this is actually biological," that there is something that's going on.
Um, are, weren't you right at the cusp, and are you at the cusp with this, you know, support to the clinicians, and how, how ready are they to have this, this information?
I will say, first off, I'm so excited of where we're moving in the stigma around mental health.
Like, it used to be unheard of that you would say that you went to go see a, a therapist, and now I know girlfriends of mine that won't date a guy if they don't see a therapist.
Like, that is now the expectation is you need to be taking care of your mind along with your body.
And I mean, big T, little T trauma, we all have something going on that we need to work on.
Um, and how you choose to do that is totally up to you, and I love the fact that the stigma is starting to come down, and that's really...
However, as someone who has gone through Al-Anon myself, and I go to open group with my sister, I f- I pull away m- uh, parts of AA that are so powerful that I can apply to my daily life.
And I just think that there's never going to be one silver bullet, but as we kind of, um, as we start to bring this awareness into society today, we're moving in the right direction.
And now I hope that we're on the precipice of making this change of combining the science of the bo- body and mind, where we stop separating them, and we start treating them as one.
We're starting to do more gut, body or gut-mind research, understanding, like, listen to your gut, right? Like, that those emotions are actually physiological.
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