Why Does Andrew Huberman Mix Tools for Brain Change?

Andrew Huberman says people keep behavioral tools, nutrition, supplementation, prescription drugs, and brain-machine interface devices in separate bins. He says the most interesting bin is the combination. A learning bout can be 300 milligrams of alpha-GPC plus a particular breathing protocol, and the two will have a synergistic effect. He says the real immediate future of beneficial brain change lies in that mix.

He tells Tim Ferriss that Tim is five years or more ahead of everybody else at spotting the horizon. Culture, Huberman says, stays stuck on what to do, what to take, and which device to use. At Neuralink, neurosurgeon Matt McDougall, who came up through Huberman's lab, works with other neuroscientists who are thinking clinical issues first, along with chips and robotics. Huberman says a roster like that is probably also thinking about accelerating plasticity with brain-machine interface plus pharmacology, and if they are not, they definitely should. For a typical person who will not plant a chip beneath the skull, combining what already works on its own, for the sake of synergy, gets people where they need to go much faster.