Boost Attention & Memory with Science-Based Tools | Dr. Wendy Suzuki

The BDNF bubble bath, the two-to-three-times-a-week threshold, and why a bigger, fluffier hippocampus starts with ten minutes of walking.

With Dr. Wendy Suzuki

"Every single time you move your body, it's like giving your brain this wonderful bubble bath of neurochemicals." — Dr. Wendy Suzuki

Dr. Wendy Suzuki, on the episode

Andrew Huberman sits down with Dr. Wendy Suzuki, professor of neuroscience and psychology at NYU and one of the field's leading memory researchers. The pop framing of Suzuki is the TED-talk story about exercise boosting her own grant writing. The actual operating system underneath is a set of specific, measured protocols she built in her own lab once she started treating her body as the input variable for her hippocampus. She walks through what a single workout does to the brain within hours, how little exercise is actually required to get cognitive gains, and what a guided body-scan meditation does to stress response and focus. This protocol pulls the concrete, testable moves from that conversation, not the general wellness narrative around them.