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Podcast looks good. Thanks for sharing.

Heads-up for those who care: It's a commercial podcast with sponsors, trojan ads and all, sadly.

https://hubermanlab.libsyn.com/rss

It's not. I couldn't get through the first 2 episodes without rolling my eyes every 10 minutes. It's full of all the standard neuro-bunk that is everywhere these days. Making very obvious points about human behavior that neuroscience does not illuminate, but making it sound otherwise ("kids are more impulsive because their brains are different"...duh). And cherry picking studies to confirm some "blow-your-mind" point that is actually much more fuzzy and contentious than he is willing to describe ("brain rewiring ONLY occurs during sleep"...not remotely supported by any study anywhere, and conveniently he never posts any sources or studies in his description or on his website). The cherry on top was noticing that he invited noted neuro-bollocks offender Matt Walker (who wrote a book called "Why We Sleep" which literally never even attempts answer the titular question). I'd pass on this one.

I agree. Listened to the episode on ADHD and it was pretty lame, unstructured and somewhat wrong at times. Also saw there is an episode with Lex Fridman, so I guess it's the same pseudo intellectual bla bla bla sponsor juice. Not the best advertising for those big name universities, tbh.

Btw. I can wholeheartedly recommend the "big biology" podcast, if you are interested in biology in general.

I've found his recommendations/sponsors to be extremely useful. They are curated choices in market areas I am unfamiliar with.

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