Huberman Lab Review

My ninth podcast is Huberman Lab. It was number nine when I listened to it and it is now 18th as I write this post. Huberman Lab is hosted by Andrew Huberman who is a professor at Stanford University. He interviewed Wendy Suzuki who is a professor at New York University. The title of this episode is "Essentials: Tools to Boost Attention and Memory." She talked a lot about how exercise improves your brain. She says it helps you grow a fluffy hippocampus. The more you exercise, the more it will help your brain. Exercising throughout your life will help delay the affects of dementia as you get older. She did a study and found low fit individuals who exercised two to three times a week that this improved their brain. She was mostly focused on exercise throughout the episode but she mentioned three things that helped brain health: exercise, meditation, and sleep. I do exercise regularly, I feel pretty good about that. I think I get enough sleep because I have a sleep plan that even when I work in the night I make up my sleep during the day. She mentioned meditation as well. I think I can work on this. I am sure this is not what she means but for me how I want to improve meditation is to engage with God in prayer. I think currently my prayers are too one sided. I have been better at praying at different times of my life but now I have been doing the talking and not enough listening. Kind of crazy to tell God what I think but don't listen to what he says. My new goal is to pray morning and night and to take at least five minutes for each of these prayers to listen. What God says to me is more important than what I say to him. Not sure if Suzuki would agree but I think the inner reflection involved in listening to God is a form of meditation that would help my brain health. But more importantly, I believe listening to God will help my spiritual health. I thought this podcast was interesting. It is nice to hear a conversation between two educated and informed people to help to learn about a topic. I give it 5/5 for being educational and interesting.