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January 16, 2025

Essentials: Tools for Managing Stress & Anxiety

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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explain strategies for managing stress, both in the short and long term, to enhance overall well-being.

I explain how the mind and body respond to stress and how acute stress has immune-boosting benefits. I discuss science-supported tools and supplements to better manage stress in real time and protocols for raising one's stress threshold to build resilience to life’s inevitable challenges. I also describe practices to reduce chronic stress and maintain a balanced, healthy life.

Huberman Lab Essentials are short episodes (approximately 30 minutes) focused on essential science and protocol takeaways from past Huberman Lab episodes. Essentials will be released every Thursday, and our full-length episodes will still be released every Monday.

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  • 00:00:00 Huberman Lab Essentials; Emotions & Stress
  • 00:02:37 What is Stress?
  • 00:04:23 Short-Term Stress Response
  • 00:06:49 Breathwork to Reduce Stress; Tool: Physiological Sigh
  • 00:11:52 Physiologic Sigh, Carbon Dioxide & Rapid Stress Reduction
  • 00:13:30 Short-Term Stress, Positive Benefits, Immune System
  • 00:16:35 Tool: Deliberate Hyperventilation, Adrenaline & Infection
  • 00:21:01 Raising Stress Threshold, Tool: Eye Dilation
  • 00:25:00 Mitigating Long-Term Stress; Tool: Social Connection, Delight
  • 00:28:58 Melatonin, Caution
  • 00:30:06 L-theanine, Ashwagandha
  • 00:31:19 Recap & Key Takeaways

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Huberman Lab Essentials

Tools for Managing Stress & Anxiety

Huberman Lab Essentials are short episodes focused on essential science and protocol takeaways from past full-length Huberman Lab episodes.

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