Dr. Noam Sobel: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior | Huberman Lab Podcast

As a blind guy I thoroughly enjoyed this discussion and sincerely hope you have this doctor back for another 3 hours or more sometime in the future!! Thank you for bringing this great content to the masses who otherwise wouldn’t get to enjoy learning such great information!!

Andrew, can you please have a podcast dedicated solely to those who are struggling with their smell after having covid? it has been almost two years and my smell is still distorted. I've tried everything from carnivore diet, extended fasting, psilocybin, supplements, smell training, but no cure. Any improvement i've had has been microscopic. My identical twin sister had covid the exact same time as me but her smell came back within a few months. I dont know why more people arent talking about this.

Intro less than 10 seconds, cuts right to the chase, mellow voice, neutral background and outfit, no crazy background music = an oasis to my overstimulated senses in today's content deluge. Thank you!

The relationship between nasal airflow and ADHD was astonishing. It makes a strong case for meditation and breath work. I personally love the Win Hof Method.

The quality of your guests and your content is unmatched. Thank you for the amazing gift of wisdom and knowledge that you pass to us every episode. Always motivating and inspiring.

I have always had an acute sense of smell. Some of my first memorys are sitting in church very young and being overwhelmed by people's perfume. To point I would feel sick. My smell at nearly 50 is still exceptional. I can often smell things others can't. I often feel I can taste some smells.

At around the 40min mark, Noem briefly mentions that nostril air flow can tell if someone has adhd, and if they are medicated or not. This brief mention has me fascinated, I’d love to learn more about it. I have adhd, I was diagnosed in Jan after 52yrs of struggling thru life with no idea why. The road to diagnosis was long and expensive ( yet so worth it, life has improved immensely ) Imagine if a nostril/breath test was developed as a diagnostic tool. That could help cut costs for diagnosis. Many people simply can’t afford to see a psychiatrist, so they spend their life suffering when a solution is possible, I find that so sad. Psychiatrists would lose $$ and clients, yet their loss wouldn’t come close to the adhd ‘tax’ neurodivergent people pay.

There's never a bad Huberman Lab podcast... But this one an absolute beauty.

Dr. Huberman. You are a godsend. I’ve sent your video on grieving to a few people this month and they both thanked me for your wisdom. You are an incredible human being, a Dale Carnegie of our generation

As a former hospice aide , I noticed that diseases have distinct odors, my olfactory sense was honed and since that experience began I know notice people by the smells. This the my primary sense. I can smell disease. This discussion was enlightening and I have a much clearer understanding of my sense of smell 🌺 You both were a pleasure to listen to

I've always thought it's unfortunate that besides foods and fragrances we don't really have a set-based form of entertainment the way we have music for the ear and visual arts for the eyes. I've noticed that my nose has a very strong connection with my brain and my memory because certain smells can immediately trigger a strong sense of nostalgia or recollection of a long forgotten memory much more efficiently than a visual or audible trigger might. We need more scentertainment!

Dr. Sobel is a delightful guest. I hope he returns sooner rather than later with more terrific things to teach and share.

I had contacted covid back in 2020 and I have lost my sense of smell and it really sucks. I had no idea how much smell really does affect us. Definitely helps us with smelling danger. One time I was cooking I stepped away for a moment and I didn't realize that I was burning our food until I saw smoke. I had no sense of smell. It really sucks. I'm going on 3 years. My sense of smell is there but very very faintly it's not as prominent as it used to be. When I smell new things I get so excited. So now I know how my dog feels LOL when she's out on her walks

Huge gratitude to Dr. Sobel. Amazed me most his statement in the future we'll have a tool for smelling disease.

This guest is a nerd in the very best sense of the word. Appreciate his knowledge.

The content on this channel is unmatched on YT. Thanks for another phenomenal video. The only channel I will watch for more than 30 mins on YT.

Hi! I´m from Argentina and I´m currently doing my bachelor's degree in Neuroscience at American University in Washington dc. As a student and a big fan of neuroscience and neurobiology, I´m amazed by the way you address each topic. I would really like to watch an episode about hormones and the brain of women, and the effects that being in a different stage of their monthly cycle could have.

Human hair is an amazing medium for odour recording and transfer. This topic just hasn't been in focus enough. I have long hair and when wearing it loose and smell it at the end of the day feels like rewind and replay of all the places I visited, people I've met and foods I ate. It's so much fun.

I just want to appreciate that in the first 3 minutes of the introduction, you summarize what people will learn in the episode. The way it is done with real-life examples that everyone can relate to is great. It invites viewers to ask a lot of questions and generates curiosity, which is great for retention. Also, time stamps are helpful for scoping the topic and understanding the big picture. Pairing all of this with Dr. Huberman's amazing ability to synthesize and process complicated information into something digestible for anyone, coupled with his ability to ask great questions during guest episodes, and the fact that the studio and visual aspects of the recording are also helping me focus, makes for a very optimized and well-thought-out learning environment. There are probably many more subtle aspects to this, but these ones stood out the most to me and I was able to catch them with my current understanding of learning efficiency.

My assumption that I as an individual perceive odours and smells different to other people was refuted. Being humbled by science is the best way to learn and grow. Thank you both for this highly interesting episode, I didn't want it to stop.