Essentials: How to Exercise for Strength Gains & Hormone Optimization | Dr. Duncan French

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 my conversation with Dr. Duncan French.

Duncan French. Great to see you again. Likewise, likewise, thank you. I don't often have many uh Stanford professors in the Performance Institute, so I'm I'm I'm really excited. Oh, well, this place is amazing and um you have a huge uh role in making it what it is. I found dozens of papers on how weight training impacts. hormones. And

Your name's on all of them. What is it about engaging motor neurons? under heavy loads sends a signal to the endocrine system. Hey, release testosterone. I've never actually uh been able to find that in a textbook. Yeah, I mean the thing it's the stress response, right? It's mechanical stress and it's metabolic stress. And these uh you know, the downstream regulation of of testosterone release at the gonads um comes from many different areas. Um you know the the

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