Audiobook: 19 hours long
Huberman's protocols book audiobook, read by him, runs 19 hours but is structured so listeners can navigate directly to any section independently.
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“This Is The Culmination Of Everything I Know” - Dr Andrew Huberman #1150
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Sep 14, 2026
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The Section Andrew Doesn't Want You to Skip
At 2:29:30 · chapter starts 2:26:54
The episode's final chapter begins with a gentle comedy: Huberman's octopus Van Gogh, who he thought was male (pure projection, he admits), turned out to be female, laid eggs, and died — as octopuses do after reproducing [1]. The replacement died too. He is philosophical: their fate would have been worse elsewhere. Having dispensed with cephalopod grief, the conversation turns to what Chris calls 'the section Andrew doesn't want you to skip.' Two answers: the wacky random eye-movement protocol for falling back asleep (which confuses the proprioceptive system and is apparently genuinely dizzying), and the Pennebaker journaling protocol for processing the hard things people are still carrying. Both are cheap, evidence-backed, and routinely passed over by readers in search of the next supplement. Huberman closes with the book's logistics — protocolsbook.com, 19-hour audiobook narrated in his own voice, fully navigable by section. Chris thanks him with genuine warmth, Huberman calls him 'a gentleman, a scholar, and a beast,' and the episode closes with a brief German-language Altra shoes ad.
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