Dr. Alia Crum: Science of Mindsets for Health & Performance | Episode 56

My guest is Dr. Alia Crum, Associate (tenured) Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Mind & Body Lab. Dr. Crum is a world expert on mindsets and beliefs and how they shape our responses to stress, exercise, and even to the foods we eat. We discuss how our mindset about the nutritional content of food changes whether it is satisfying to us at a physiological (hormonal and metabolic) level. She also tells how mindsets about exercise can dramatically alter the effects of exercise on weight loss, blood pressure, and other health metrics. Dr. Crum teaches us how to think about stress in ways that allow stress to grow us and bring out our best rather than diminish our health and performance. Throughout the episode, Dr. Crum provides descriptions of high-quality peer-reviewed scientific findings that we can all leverage toward better health and performance in our lives. Thank you to our sponsors Thesis - https://takethesis.com/huberman ROKA - https://roka.com - code "huberman" InsideTracker - https://insidetracker.com/huberman Dr. Alia Crum Links Twitter Stanford Mind & Body Lab  Support Dr. Crum’s research at Stanford (tax-deductible) Dr. Crum’s published work  Our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/andrewhuberman Supplements from Thorne: https://www.thorne.com/u/huberman Huberman Lab Social Instagram Twitter Facebook Website Newsletter Resources Toolkit for changing stress mindsets  Publication on mindsets & side effects Changing patient mindsets about non-life-threatening symptoms during oral immunotherapy Stress, mindsets, and success in Navy SEALs special warfare training Nutritional analysis of foods and beverages depicted in top-grossing US movies, 1994-2018 Nutritional Analysis of Foods and Beverages Posted in Instagram Accounts of Highly Followed Celebrities Timestamps (00:00:00) Introducing Dr. Alia Crum from Stanford University (00:03:15) Thesis, ROKA, Inside Tracker (00:08:26) What Is a Mindset & What Does It Do?  (00:14:45) Mindset