Huberman Lab Essentials: Science of Mindsets for Health & Performance | Dr. Alia Crum
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Sep 4, 2025 
In a captivating discussion, Dr. Alia Crum, a Stanford psychology professor and director of the Mind & Body Lab, highlights the powerful role of mindsets on health. She reveals how simply believing a food is indulgent can influence our hormones and satiety. Dr. Crum shares insights on reframing stress as a growth tool and its unexpected benefits on performance. She dives into studies showing that viewing daily activities as true exercise can enhance weight loss and health outcomes, emphasizing the fascinating interplay between belief and physiology.
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Mindsets Define How You Interpret Situations
- Mindsets are core assumptions that orient expectations, explanations, and goals in a domain.
- They simplify decision-making but also shape attention, motivation, and behavior.
Beliefs Change Body Priorities
- Mindsets about food, exercise, stress, and illness affect not only choices but physiology.
- Beliefs can change what the body prioritizes and how it prepares to respond.
The Milkshake Study: Belief Alters Hunger Hormone
- In a within-subjects milkshake study participants consumed the same shake twice with different labels and expectations.
- Believing the shake was indulgent caused ghrelin to drop threefold more, increasing physiological satiety.