Where science may have a blindspot...
As a lifelong learner who has spent my entire adulthood trying to understand and fix the problems in my body and mind with science, I was thrilled to learn of your podcast. I eat up every episode as it comes out and am so grateful for the content in which I can feel confident. I was diagnosed ADHD and general anxiety disorder as a 5 year old and was an overachiever in every way growing up. Excellent grades, student athlete, worked multiple jobs and had many fulfilling friendships all without accommodations or medication. Once I graduated undergrad, my life started to fall apart and long story short- wasn't until I had my son at 32 that I realized that I am autistic. I have turned to science for all of my issues, and still believe in the power of the scientific community to improve lives. I think that an area where science is falling short, however, is in it's ability to see the value in the lived experience. I have researched all things autistic for the past several years and it's been incredibly disappointing to see the lack of awareness or understanding that medical professionals and researchers have of the internal experiences of autistic people. You have not done an episode on autism and I can only imagine why with all the messy, unclear science that has been published. My question to you is whether you could do an episode on autism where you look at the anecdotal evidence, the experiences of autistics' inner worlds, the growing number of late-diagnosed parents like myself who masked their entire lives only to have their struggles missed. There is a large autistic community that does not see autism as a disorder, but instead as a difference in brain processing. Through these neurodivergent stories, I was able to recognize and relate to the experience of having a brain that processes the world differently and the validation that came with finding the information that allowed me to understand myself was profoundly impactful. You have a major platform here that has helped so many already and I feel that the next level would be to use this platform to investigate an area where science could improve. My story of uncovering my true self is the epitome of what you seek to do with your podcast: discovering information that changed my life. Hope you will consider this perspective when creating an episode on autism. Thanks again.
How can people with ADHD or ADD can consume all the lengthy information in the podcast?
I'm sorry if my question comes as "rude". I'm a long-term Huberman fan (since you had 5k Instagram followers!). Since the podcast was released I wasn't able to watch even one episode of the Huberman show from start to end. It is really hard for me to listen for more than 10-20 minutes and I felt that I'm unable to get back to the episode and "manage" where I was before. I feel that there's so much great information in the podcast and I'd like to be able to digest it in a different manner that is much more relevant to how people consume content nowadays (1-3 minutes chunks). I'd be happy if you can think about this in the future in how episodes are arranged or organized. There's something monotone in the current approach and I'm hopeful a solution will be available in the near future :-)
Toolkit episode to share with beloved, ageing family and friends
My parents are ageing and slowly losing some of the skills they used to have. It's slow, but noticable, physically, mentally, energylevels, maybe even slight loss of social connection. I would love to be able to point them to one concise 1.5 hours episode that gives them the most important tools. Heart health, exercise, supplements, mental frameworks and exercises to help them stay as sharp as possible. I've conviced my dad to take Omega 3 and his blood makers shot out off the problematic zone within a few months. Still, I have a hard time convicing my parents to take up other protocols and will never get them to listen to 8 different episodes to design their perfect protocol. Some easy, well explained and convincing protocol would be a tremendous help!