#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships

The following is a conversation with Andrew Huberman, his fifth time on the podcast. He is the host of the Huberman Lab podcast and is an amazing scientist, teacher, human being, and someone I'm grateful to be able to call a close friend. Also, he has a book coming out next year that you should preorder now called protocols, an operating manual for the human body. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Eight Sleep for naps, Element for electrolytes, eight g one for nutrition, Shopify for ecommerce, NetSuite for business management software, and BetterHelp for mental health. Choose wise, my friends. Also, if you want to work with our amazing team or just wanna get in touch with me, go to alexfreeman.com/contact. And now onto the full live reads. As always, no ads in the middle. I try to make these interesting, but if you must skip them, please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by Asleep, and it's Pod four Ultra. First of all, Pod four is an improvement over the Pod three, which was already awesome. Two x the cooling power. I always love it when stuff is just improving. When smartphones are improving, LLMs are improving, like, jump to claw three five. It's just great. And then GPT five might be coming out soon. It's just great. It's great to see improvement. But, also, there's the Ultra part, which is an extra layer that, adds the base that goes between the mattress and the bed frame, and the base can control the physical position of the actual mattress. So, basically, you can sleep in your bed, and you can also read in your bed, which is a thing that I think a lot of people like doing. I I have trouble reading too much of my bed because I fall asleep. See, the bed is just too nice. Anyway, go to 8sleep.com/lex and use code Lex to get $350 off the pod four Ultra. This episode is also brought to you by LMNT, the drink that, Andrew and I consume a lot of during the episode. I drink a lot of LMNT almost not almost on every single podcast episode. That's just what I drink. I put LMNT in the water. I take, I have one next to me right now, a power rated zero bottle with 28 fluid ounces. Fill it up with water, put one packet of alum in there, usually watermelon salt, mix it all up, put in the fridge, and, about thirty minutes later, there's cold, refreshing deliciousness. But, yeah, in, the Texas heat when I'm doing the long runs or hard training sessions, like, I just did 10 rounds the other day in, grappling. No drinks. I usually don't like to drink during training. So afterwards, you're just your …