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Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body
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Expected 15 Sep 26Dr Andrew Huberman, host of the world’s leading health podcast, Huberman Lab, and neuroscientist and tenured professor at Stanford School of Medicine, introduces Protocols, an essential guide to improving brain function, enhancing mood and energy, optimising bodily health and physical performance, and rewiring your nervous system to learn new skills and behaviours that can transform your life.
Protocols provides simple, powerful and evidence-based solutions to life’s most common challenges. Designed to improve your mental health, physical health and performance, these guidelines are customisable, allowing you to adapt them to your specific needs. With his clear and engaging style, Dr Huberman explains the scientific principles behind each protocol and how they can deliver immediate, effective results. Protocols is your essential road map for achieving optimal health.
Protocols provides simple, powerful and evidence-based solutions to life’s most common challenges. Designed to improve your mental health, physical health and performance, these guidelines are customisable, allowing you to adapt them to your specific needs. With his clear and engaging style, Dr Huberman explains the scientific principles behind each protocol and how they can deliver immediate, effective results. Protocols is your essential road map for achieving optimal health.
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Expected publication September 15, 2026
About the author
Andrew D. Huberman
1 book545 followersAndrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research laboratory, the Huberman Lab, has made significant contributions to our understanding of brain development, the neuroscience of visual perception and repair from blinding diseases such as glaucoma, the neural mechanisms of stress and resilience and neural plasticity—the nervous system’s ability to change and learn in response to experience.
Dr. Huberman earned his bachelor’s degree with honors and distinction from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1998), completed a master’s degree at UC Berkeley (2000) and earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from UC Davis in 2004, where he received the Allan G. Marr Prize for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation. He conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University School of Medicine from 2005 to 2010 and was awarded a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship.
His first faculty position was from 2011 to 2015 at the University of California, San Diego, in the Department of Neurosciences and the Neurobiology Section in the Division of Biological Sciences. In 2016, he was hired by the Stanford University School of Medicine as a tenured professor, where he currently directs the Huberman Laboratory. Dr. Huberman’s lab has published numerous peer-reviewed research and review articles in the highest-tier journals including Nature, Cell, Science and Neuron.
Across his career, Dr. Huberman has published over 75 peer-reviewed articles in top scientific journals including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, Current Biology, and Journal of Neuroscience. He has delivered more than 100 invited research and keynote seminars around the world, and he was a regular member of NIH grant review panels and contributor to the National Eye Institutes Audacious Goals Initiative to cure blindness. His research as a PhD student, postdoc and tenured professor made important discoveries into how the brain processes visual information, how brain circuits develop and function and are modified by experience. He has also published a human randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of stress mitigation tools and ways to improve sleep, heart rate variability and mood.
His research includes key areas such as visual circuit development; the molecular mechanisms that guide precise wiring between the eye and brain; how the brain processes the direction of visual motion; visual and brain circuits for circadian rhythm generation and timing; stress and threat detection circuits in the brain and discovery of neural pathways that trigger defensive behaviors; neural regeneration and methods to promote repair of damaged neural connections; and stress and performance, focusing on how visual inputs and breathing patterns influence brain states.
His research accomplishments have earned him numerous prestigious honors and awards, including the Cogan Award in 2017 for making crucial contributions to vision science and ophthalmology, the McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award in 2013, and the Pew Biomedical Scholar Award in 2013 for his work on visual circuit function and plasticity. He was awarded the ARCS Foundation Graduate Fellowship for the best PhD dissertation and the Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr. Huberman served on the editorial boards of Current Biology, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience and Cell Reports and he has reviewed papers for Nature, Science, PNAS, Cell, Neuron and many other top tier journals. He also served on multiple grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health.
He co-directed the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course on "Vision: a platform for linking cell types, circuits and perception," training the next generation of vision researchers.
In his teaching roles, Dr. Huberman has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and development
Dr. Huberman earned his bachelor’s degree with honors and distinction from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1998), completed a master’s degree at UC Berkeley (2000) and earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from UC Davis in 2004, where he received the Allan G. Marr Prize for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation. He conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University School of Medicine from 2005 to 2010 and was awarded a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship.
His first faculty position was from 2011 to 2015 at the University of California, San Diego, in the Department of Neurosciences and the Neurobiology Section in the Division of Biological Sciences. In 2016, he was hired by the Stanford University School of Medicine as a tenured professor, where he currently directs the Huberman Laboratory. Dr. Huberman’s lab has published numerous peer-reviewed research and review articles in the highest-tier journals including Nature, Cell, Science and Neuron.
Across his career, Dr. Huberman has published over 75 peer-reviewed articles in top scientific journals including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, Current Biology, and Journal of Neuroscience. He has delivered more than 100 invited research and keynote seminars around the world, and he was a regular member of NIH grant review panels and contributor to the National Eye Institutes Audacious Goals Initiative to cure blindness. His research as a PhD student, postdoc and tenured professor made important discoveries into how the brain processes visual information, how brain circuits develop and function and are modified by experience. He has also published a human randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of stress mitigation tools and ways to improve sleep, heart rate variability and mood.
His research includes key areas such as visual circuit development; the molecular mechanisms that guide precise wiring between the eye and brain; how the brain processes the direction of visual motion; visual and brain circuits for circadian rhythm generation and timing; stress and threat detection circuits in the brain and discovery of neural pathways that trigger defensive behaviors; neural regeneration and methods to promote repair of damaged neural connections; and stress and performance, focusing on how visual inputs and breathing patterns influence brain states.
His research accomplishments have earned him numerous prestigious honors and awards, including the Cogan Award in 2017 for making crucial contributions to vision science and ophthalmology, the McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award in 2013, and the Pew Biomedical Scholar Award in 2013 for his work on visual circuit function and plasticity. He was awarded the ARCS Foundation Graduate Fellowship for the best PhD dissertation and the Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr. Huberman served on the editorial boards of Current Biology, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience and Cell Reports and he has reviewed papers for Nature, Science, PNAS, Cell, Neuron and many other top tier journals. He also served on multiple grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health.
He co-directed the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course on "Vision: a platform for linking cell types, circuits and perception," training the next generation of vision researchers.
In his teaching roles, Dr. Huberman has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and development
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