Dr. Andrew Huberman
Neuroscientist and tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine
Neuroscience • neurobiology of behavior • brain-body connection • stress • and human performance
About the expert
Focus: Neuroscience and science-based tools for human performance and health
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. He hosts the Huberman Lab podcast, which translates neuroscience research into practical tools for health and performance. His laboratory studies neural circuits related to vision, stress, fear, and behavioral change.
Why this matters
Stanford neurobiologist whose distinctive approach is to explain the underlying neural and physiological mechanism first, then translate it into a daily behavioral protocol. The Huberman Lab synthesizes peer-reviewed neuroscience for a general audience, leaning heavily on circuit-level explanations of light, sleep, stress, focus, and dopamine. Generally emphasizes lifestyle interventions with strong human evidence (light timing, sleep regularity, breathing, structured exercise, cold and heat) over supplements when human data is stronger, while also exploring emerging mechanistic research that has not yet been fully validated clinically. Useful as a mechanism-to-protocol translator; worth pairing with conventional clinical-trial evidence when the protocol leans on animal data or small-cohort human studies.