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1,000 claims across 17 endpoints

Claims by endpoint

What Andrew Huberman claims Meditation does, and whether the research agrees.

EndpointStanceResearchAlignmentClaims
stressDecrease
115
With consensus400
anxietyDecrease
87
With consensus241
sleepIncrease
71
With consensus149
sleep qualityIncrease
71
With consensus115
painDecrease
124
With consensus23
depressionDecrease
78
With consensus23
depression symptomsDecrease
78
With consensus14
stress responseDecrease
115
With consensus12
stress regulationDecrease
115
With consensus6
anxiety levelsDecrease
87
With consensus5
chronic painDecrease
124
With consensus4
perceived stressDecrease
115
With consensus2
anxiety and depressionDecrease
87
With consensus2
stress levelDecrease
115
With consensus1
stress levelsDecrease
115
With consensus1
sleep onsetIncrease
71
With consensus1
sleep durationIncrease
71
With consensus1

Notable

Claims that diverge from — or run ahead of — the research.

What they've said

Mentions of Meditation across Andrew Huberman's content.

Andrew Huberman

Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals | Huberman Lab

…eeks before they uh so this study was done over the period of a month and then when they were swapped into a new pattern of breathing um condition or meditation condition and this was all done in in the natural world as we say um they were wearing woot bands that we were getting heart rate heart rate variabil…

Andrew Huberman

Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals | Huberman Lab

…ct but you can do things like work on social connection that's actually been shown to improve recovery over time you can do things like journaling or meditation and those have an acute effect as well as a chronic effect so again if you go Journal right now you probably feel better but also we know that over t…

Andrew Huberman

Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals | Huberman Lab

…ction would be something like cyclic hyperventilation I'm sure you've observed that um and interestingly uh when we had people just do 5 minutes of u meditation which during which of course they are breathing but they're just allowing their breathing to progress however it happens to be in that moment um or m…