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The Mind-Body Symphony: Master Your Brain-Body Connection

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Discover how to transform your health by strengthening the two-way communication between brain and body. Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman reveals how breathing techniques outperform meditation, while Kelly McGonigal's research shows how 'movement snacks' can reshape your brain. Learn practical tools that top researchers use to control energy, mood, and stress.

The Mind-Body Symphony: Master Your Brain-Body Connection
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Breaking up prolonged sitting reduces postprandial glucose and insulin responses
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https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/35/5/976/38374/Breaking-Up-Prolonged-Sitting-Reduces-Postprandial
Walking boosts creativity
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https://ed.stanford.edu/in-the-media/think-your-feet-walking-boosts-creativity-features-daniel-schwartz
The efficacy and safety of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in depression: meta-analysis
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032723006857
Changes in Interoception in Mind-body Therapies for Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38169051/
Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011PNAS..108.3017E/abstract
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
Interoceptive Mechanisms and Emotional Processing
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https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-020924-125202
TED Talk: Why do we sleep?
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https://www.ted.com/speakers/russell_foster
Human physiological responses to immersion into water of different temperatures
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10751106/
The Utility of Heartrate and HRV Biofeedback for the Improvement of Interoception: A Systematic Review
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https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/14/6/579
TED Talk: The brain-changing benefits of exercise
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/X93aZK9s
WHO Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour (2020)
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https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/336656
The Joy of Movement
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-joy-of-movement-by-kelly-mcgonigal
Breath
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/breath-by-james-nestor
Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition (2018)
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https://odphp.health.gov/healthypeople/tools-action/browse-evidence-based-resources/physical-activity-guidelines-americans-2nd-edition
Association of Efficacy of Resistance Exercise Training With Depressive Symptoms
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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/psych/articlepdf/2680311/jamapsychiatry_gordon_2018_oi_180020.pdf
TED Talk: How to make stress your friend
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https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend
The Drive with Peter Attia
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https://peterattiamd.com/ep-300-exercise-nutrition-fasting-more/
Plasma norepinephrine responses of man in cold water
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/911386/
Huberman Lab Podcast
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/sleep-toolkit-tools-for-optimizing-sleep-and-sleep-wake-timing
The Extended Mind
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-extended-mind-by-annie-murphy-paul
Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666379122004748
The impact of daytime light exposures on sleep and mood in office workers
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28526259/
The Expectation Effect
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-expectation-effect-by-david-robson
Modern Wisdom
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-modern-wisdom-30936734/episode/836-dr-andrew-huberman--214001582/
Association between sauna bathing and fatal cardiovascular and all-cause mortality events
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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/INTEMED/articlepdf/2130724/ioi140152.pdf
TED Talk: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
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https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_your_brain_hallucinates_your_conscious_reality
Huberman Lab Podcast
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/tools-for-managing-stress-and-anxiety
Good Anxiety
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/good-anxiety-by-wendy-suzuki
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/social-why-our-brains-are-wired-to-connect-by-matthew-d-lieberman
The Link Between Sauna Bathing and Mortality May Be Noncausal
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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2448450
Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Training Reduces Early Maternal Stress, Anxiety, and Depression
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39083170/
Light exposure behaviors predict mood, memory and sleep quality
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10394000/
A meta-analysis on heart rate variability biofeedback and depressive symptoms
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33758260/
A fermented-food diet increases microbiome diversity and lowers inflammation
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https://humanbiology.stanford.edu/news/dr-christopher-gardner-co-authors-discover-fermented-food-diet-increases-microbiome-diversity
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/spark-by-john-j-ratey
Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Improves Emotional and Physical Health and Performance
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32385728/
The Body Keeps the Score
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-body-keeps-the-score-by-bessel-van-der-kolk
Shine light on sleep: Morning bright light improves nocturnal sleep and next morning alertness among college students
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36058557/
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