Essentials: Control Sugar Cravings & Metabolism with Science-Based Tools

Apr 30, 2026 · 34 min · YouTube

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0:00Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance.

0:11I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

0:17Today we are going to discuss sugar, in particular how our nervous system regulates our sugar intake and our seeking of sugar.

0:24We are going to place sugar into its proper context.

0:27The way I want to start off by doing that is to tell you a little bit of what happens when we eat and a little bit of what the brain does to respond to those events.

0:37So what happens when we eat?

0:39Let's just take a, what I call top contour view of the hormonal response to ingesting food.

0:45Anytime we eat, that is the consequence of a number of things that happen before we ate.

0:50There's a hormone in our brain and body called ghrelin, spelled G-H-R-E-L-I-N.

0:55Ghrelin is a hormone that increases depending on how long it's been since we ate last.

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