Dr. Tommy Wood

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Huberman Lab · Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

And we know that how you feel, so how an athlete feels is a much better predictor of their performance than their HRV or any of their blood tests.

What are you asking them?

Like, how good do you feel today?

Yeah.

On one to 10.

Some version.

And you can boil it down or, I mean, you can spread it out to many more questions.

So there's a question there called the rest cue, which is all about like how you recovered, how recovered you feel, how motivated you feel to train or perform that kind of stuff.

But essentially it boils down to how good you feel.

If you feel good, you're more likely to perform well.

And that works better than the vast majority of data that you, biological, physiological data you can collect.

There are papers that come out on this every year that essentially show the same thing.

Yeah.

And so absolutely right.

Then that gets into like the nocebo effect of how we think about either our sleep data or these other things, right?

That can negatively impact our performance.

And we have good studies that show that as well.

So I think that tracking how you feel is really important.

But when it comes to stimulants in particular, they seem to dissociate how we feel versus how we perform.

So there are studies that show that giving people caffeine makes them feel

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