About this podcast

Dive into the transformative power of mindsets with Dr. Alia Crum, a renowned professor of psychology at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Mind & Body Lab. In this enlightening Huberman Lab Essentials episode, Dr. Crum reveals how our core beliefs about stress, exercise, and food fundamentally shape our physiology, behavior, and overall well-being. Discover fascinating studies demonstrating how believing a food is indulgent can alter satiety hormones, and how perceiving daily activity as legitimate exercise can boost weight loss and health markers. Learn practical tools to reframe stress from a debilitating force into a powerful catalyst for growth and improved performance. This conversation distills complex science into actionable insights, providing a fresh perspective on how to leverage the mind-body connection for optimal health and human performance.