Dr. Alan Castel

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Huberman Lab · How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

Good point.

So something's going on.

Maybe there's some trauma, there's something, but it does give you this feeling like, hey, there's something I can do.

Or maybe, you know, I'm a firm believer like in physical therapy, like a lot of the exercises we do, you know,

If you keep doing the same thing, that's great, but then you lose a lot of the other muscle mass.

I think exercise, even walking, people will say it's really like a controlled form of losing your balance and regaining it, and losing your balance and regaining it.

And so you add that into hiking, which has unpredictable surfaces and all these muscles that you're not using too often now have to be engaged.

And so I think that coming back to like challenging yourself can be very important, putting yourself in uncomfortable positions.

I mean, it's great to be on this podcast,

there's a time where I'm like, I'm not sure I want to do this, right?

Like, you know, how do you get that?

You're feeling that way now?

No, now I feel fine.

But I think as we put ourselves in these uncomfortable positions, and I remember, you know, when I first started teaching, you know, like, gosh, 300 people, you know, this is an uncomfortable situation.

And one of my mentors said, you know what?

there's only one thing you need to do and that's breathe.

Because you start to forget that that is the most primitive thing to get oxygen to your brain that then you can do what you probably can do quite well.

And that's a psychological oversight where we just kind of start, I don't know if it's just mouth breathing, but as we get older or there's more stress, we stop being aware of the things that can really help us.

Well, a lot of this comes down to habits and some of it is motivation, right?

It's hard to get motivated to go to the gym.

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