Andrew Huberman on Mucuna Pruriens
8 episodes · 17 references · 2021–2024
Based on dated public statements, not confirmation of use today.
Andrew Huberman has reported taking Mucuna Pruriens. Referenced across 8 episodes with 17 total references.
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Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
“Mucuna pruriens increases dopamine levels and it has been shown to improve some of those symptoms of Parkinson's patients.”
Tools to Enhance Working Memory & Attention
“Mucuna purines can increase sperm count, sperm quality and sperm motility.”
Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
“Mucuna purines... can reduce the symptoms of Parkinson's disease... It also can reduce a particular hormone called prolactin.”
Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
“Things like Mucuna pruriens, which are L-dopa, the immediate precursor to dopamine, can accelerate healing and accelerate the recovery from injury of all kinds.”
Using Your Nervous System to Enhance Your Immune System
“Inside the bean is L-DOPA. Mucuna pruriens is not just something that promotes dopamine release; it is chemically L-DOPA, the precursor to dopamine.”
How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods
“I would suggest starting with a very, very low dose to find the minimal effective dose. Maybe even just 500 milligrams, or even 250 milligrams, to evaluate how much Mucuna pruriens produces a meaningful impact.”
Tools to Enhance Working Memory & Attention
“The effects of mucuna purines tend to be very much of the increasing the peak in dopamine and then very quickly dropping that peak.”
Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
“Anytime you consume a substance that increases dopamine by mimicking dopamine or acting as a direct precursor to dopamine, there's almost inevitably a crash or a reduction in the Baseline in dopamine.”
Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
“Mucuna pruriens is essentially the equivalent of L-Dopa, which is a prescription drug, and it potently increases dopamine. Please absolutely talk to your doctor first.”
Tools to Enhance Working Memory & Attention
“Mucuna pruriens I've tried. It was too dopaminergic for me. I got really, really jazzed up and then a severe crash for me the next day.”
How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods
“I don't necessarily recommend Mucuna pruriens. It tends to make people very dopaminergic and then crash, again, depleting that pool.”
AMA #4: Maintain Motivation, Improve REM Sleep, Set Goals, Manage Anxiety & More
“I don't recommend Mucuna pruriens. I don't recommend it because it tends to so potently and acutely increase dopamine that there's a pretty substantial crash afterwards.”
Optimize & Control Your Brain Chemistry to Improve Health & Performance | Huberman Lab Podcast #80
“I don't recommend Mucuna Pruriens because it tends to so potently and acutely increase dopamine that there's a pretty substantial crash afterwards.”
Control Your Brain Chemistry for Focus, Motivation & Well-Being | Huberman Lab Essentials