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Andrew Huberman
×Meditation
100% accurate
2,049 claims across 50 endpoints

Claims by endpoint

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

EndpointStanceResearchAlignmentClaims
stressDecrease
115
With consensus402
moodIncrease
14
With consensus369
anxietyDecrease
87
With consensus241
sleepIncrease
71
With consensus192
memoryIncrease
5
With consensus181
sleep qualityIncrease
71
With consensus145
mindfulnessIncrease
31
With consensus125
performanceIncrease
11
With consensus51
cognitive performanceIncrease
11
With consensus33
mental healthIncrease
49
With consensus30
painDecrease
124
With consensus23
depressionDecrease
78
With consensus23
cognitionIncrease
5
With consensus21
immune functionIncrease
11
With consensus19
heart rateDecrease
4
With consensus17
insomniaDecrease
5
With consensus16
inflammationDecrease
3
With consensus15
depression symptomsDecrease
78
With consensus14
effectivenessIncrease
5
With consensus14
stress responseDecrease
115
With consensus12
blood pressureDecrease
23
With consensus10
working memoryIncrease
5
With consensus9
executive functionIncrease
11
With consensus8
recoveryIncrease
3
With consensus7
fatigueDecrease
16
With consensus6
stress regulationDecrease
115
With consensus6
work performanceIncrease
11
With consensus5
adherenceIncrease
1
With consensus5
cognitive functionIncrease
11
With consensus5
anxiety levelsDecrease
87
With consensus5
memory performanceIncrease
11
With consensus4
chronic painDecrease
124
With consensus4
distress toleranceIncrease
3
With consensus4
memory functionDecrease
11
Against3
memory recallIncrease
5
With consensus3
perceived stressDecrease
115
With consensus2
resting heart rateDecrease
4
With consensus2
anxiety and depressionDecrease
87
With consensus2
physical performanceIncrease
11
With consensus2
cancer outcomesIncrease
28
With consensus2
balanceIncrease
5
With consensus2
physical activityIncrease
17
With consensus2
insomnia symptomsDecrease
68
With consensus1
stress levelDecrease
115
With consensus1
stress levelsDecrease
115
With consensus1
health benefitsIncrease
49
With consensus1
treatment outcomesIncrease
28
With consensus1
sleep durationIncrease
71
With consensus1
sleep onsetIncrease
71
With consensus1
physical activity engagementIncrease
17
With consensus1

Notable

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

"Meditation decreasess sleep quality"

influencer claim contradicted by research · 71 studies

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…
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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…
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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…
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