Dr. Andrew Huberman

we will be releasing to our YouTube clips channel a 10-minute, 20-minute, and 30-minute non-sleep deep rest protocol that I've narrated.

If you don't like my voice, there are many out there of more pleasant voices.

But what might be of particular interest to you is that the visual is of the beautiful sunrise over Sydney, so it'll bring you home as well.

Sunrises here are absolutely spectacular.

Do you believe in the placebo effect?

Absolutely.

And there's probably a joke there, but I can't come up with it on the fly.

How would I know if it's real?

Something like that.

So the placebo effect is real.

Our belief about what we've taken or what is happening to us has a powerful effect.

on our physiology, it's not purely psychological.

The whole business of psychosomatic, even that word is starting to fall away as we start to understand that our beliefs have a powerful effect on what happens to us physiologically.

So much so that, for instance, my colleague, Ali Crum, a tenured professor at Stanford's Department of Psychology, who's been a guest on the podcast who studies mindsets, has done beautiful experiments on stress, showing that if you watch a short video about stress,

And you learn all the terrible things that stress can do to your cognition, your sleep, and your well-being.

Well, indeed, that happens.

And that if you watch a short video about how stress can be performance enhancing by sharpening your mental acuity, your access to particular

memory stores, et cetera, that indeed that happens.

So-called belief effects.

Why belief effects, not placebo effects?