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Andrew Huberman · 2025-09-11

Food & Supplements for Brain Health & Cognitive Performance | Huberman Lab Essentials

Food & Supplements for Brain Health & Cognitive Performance | Huberman Lab Essentials

Recommended on this episode

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Creatine Monohydrate

(generic supplement)

“I personally take creatine, 5 g per day, and have for a very long time”
“So, I personally take creatine, 5 g per day, and have for a very long time.”— Andrew Huberman
BookRecommended

Rethinking Food Reward (Annual Review of Psychology, 2019)

Ivan de Araujo, Mark Schiller, Dana Small

“there's a wonderful review... a beautiful deep dive, although quite accessible to most people”
“there's a wonderful review written by Ivan de Araujo... It's called Rethinking Food Reward and it was published in the Annual Reviews of Psychology.”— Andrew Huberman

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Phosphatidylserine

(generic supplement)

“For those of you that are interested in supplementing with phosphatidylserine, it's a relatively inexpensive supplement”— Andrew Huberman
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EPA / Omega-3 fatty acids

(generic supplement)

“supplementing with omega-3s to get above that 1.5 g and ideally up to 2 or even 3 g per day of EPA can be very beneficial for cognitive function”— Andrew Huberman
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Choline

(generic supplement)

“most people should probably strive to get somewhere between 500 mg and a gram of choline per day”— Andrew Huberman
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Alpha-GPC

(generic supplement)

“I generally consume these things like EPAs, creatine, alpha GPC to set a general context of support for my neurons, for my brain”— Andrew Huberman
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L-Glutamine

(generic supplement)

“For people that supplement with glutamine, generally they will take anywhere from a gram as much as 10 g per day.”— Andrew Huberman