Essentials: The Science & Practice of Movement | Ido Portal

Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. And now for my discussion with Ido Portal. Ido, thank you for coming here today. Over the years, we've been in communication and I've come to realize that you're a true intellectual of the topic of movement.

And I define an intellectual as somebody who can understand a topic at multiple levels of granularity. To start off, could you inform us how people should think about approaching a movement practice? What is the first layer of any good movement practice? It's an open system. It has no center.

It's decentralized and it can be approached from anywhere. And that's its magic and that's that's the benefit of it. Some people find the body a good entry point. And then playfulness can be an entry point, an attribute, or and this is so open. So

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (39 minutes, 6,336 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 10 episodes for $5, and monthly plans are cheaper still.