AMA #17: Making Time for Fitness, Top Sleep Tools & Best Learning Strategies

The episode opens as an "ask me anything" (AMA) session. The host introduces himself as a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Before any questions are answered, he makes an announcement about the Huberman Lab premium channel. Subscribers get the full-length AMAs, while everyone else hears only roughly the first 15 or 20 minutes.

The announcement is about how research gets funded. When the premium channel launched, Tiny Foundation matched its research contributions one for one. That match is now three to one: every dollar the channel puts toward research is joined by three more. The host calls this "a 4x amplification of the funding" for studies on human beings covering mental health, physical health and performance. He says the results will be shared with listeners once those studies are completed and published.

Subscription terms as stated: $10 a month; $100 paid at once for a 12-month subscription; a lifetime option with a one-time payment. All options are at hubermanlab.com/premium, and existing subscribers are asked to download the premium subscription feed there.

The closing segments come back to why the channel exists, and there are two reasons. First, it raises support for the standard podcast, which the host says will still come out every Monday in full length with no change in format. Second, it funds research on human beings rather than animal models, aimed at developing protocols for mental health, physical health and performance. He stresses that those protocols will be released through all channels, not only the premium one. Subscribers can also submit questions, see answers to other people's questions, and get AMA transcripts plus some transcripts and protocols not found elsewhere.