Michael Pollan
Huberman Lab
What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan
- Published
- September 28, 2026
- Duration
- 2h 2m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 28, 2026
Discusses health, life.
Summary
Michael Pollan is a renowned author, journalist and professor at UC Berkeley. He is best known for his influential works on how humans and plants have shaped each other at the level of food, medicine, health, and culture. In this episode we discuss consciousness—what it is and how the recognition between our self vs others contributes to-- but also can im…
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Michael Pollan is a renowned author, journalist and professor at UC Berkeley. He is best known for his influential works on how humans and plants have shaped each other at the level of food, medicine, health, and culture. In this episode we discuss consciousness—what it is and how the recognition between our self vs others contributes to-- but also can impair, certain aspects of conscious experience. We discuss psychedelics, the microbiome, caffeine, and how the unconscious dialogue between our
Themes
- health
- life