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Dr. Martin Picard

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Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

Exactly.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

And your question was about, you know, the human energy vitality, like, you know, the energy to do something.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

And that's, I think, another manifestation of energy.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

As energy flows through this thing that we call biology or, you know, the human body,

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

It kind of moves us into action, right?

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

And we know from first principles that the basis for human experiences, you know, the mind and our ability to be inspired to feel, you know, positive things or to feel negative things depends on the flow of energy, right?

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

The difference between a thinking, feeling, conscious person having experiences and being able to go to the gym and lift and a cadaver is really โ€“ it's not the size of the muscles, the number of cells, the nucleus, the genes, the mitochondria.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

It's none of this.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

The difference between a living person and a cadaver is the flow of energy.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

When you die, all of the structure, you know, the physical stuff remains as is, but energy stops flowing.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

If you stop breathing, if your heart stops beating, energy flow stops and then energy transformation, therefore it can't happen.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

And then that's what we call death.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

And then the mind dies, right?

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

Like you don't have an experience anymore.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

And so the flow of energy, I think, has to be the basis not only of life, which we know

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

you know, to be correct, but also the basis of human experiences and what we experience as energy.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

We think about energy, we crave energy, and we know, and the way we talk about, you know, this person has really good energy or this thing, you know, really energized me or, you know, had this great idea, your friend was telling you, I had this great idea, I'm buzzing, man.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

Like, what's that buzzing thing?

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

It is a real experience.

Huberman Lab
Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

And most people will have, you know, had the experience of,