Dr. David Spiegel on the Huberman Lab Podcast: Using Hypnosis to Enhance Health & Performance

Watch this transformative interview between Andrew Huberman and Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford School of Medicine and Reveri Founder, Dr. David Spiegel.

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"We underestimate our ability to regulate and change responses—to be cognitively, emotionally, and somatically flexible."

— Dr. David Spiegel on the Huberman Lab Podcast

Episode Highlights

In this episode of the Huberman Lab Podcast, Dr. David Spiegel, a world-leading expert on hypnosis, explores how this powerful tool can reshape the mind and body.

  • Watch Dr. Spiegel explain how hypnosis changes brain function and why it’s a science-backed way to enhance focus, reduce pain, and improve mental health.

  • Learn how hypnosis compares to meditation, psychedelic therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)—and why it can work faster than traditional talk therapy.

  • Discover the Spiegel Eye-Roll Test, a simple way to measure your hypnotizability, and how this trait affects your ability to tap into altered states of consciousness.

  • Find out how self-hypnosis can improve sleep, lower stress, and help rewire negative thought patterns—no special training required.

  • 00:00:00 Dr. David Spiegel MD, Hypnosis

    00:09:09 Clinical Hypnosis

    00:16:45 Stage Hypnosis

    00:20:25 Neurobiology of Hypnosis

    00:26:04 ADHD

    00:28:22 Hypnosis for Stress & Sleep

    00:32:12 Hypnosis to Strengthen Neural Connections

    00:37:19 Restructuring Trauma Narratives

    00:45:14 Ketamine Therapy

    00:50:07 Self-directed Hypnosis, Reveri

    00:56:53 Eliminating Obsessive Thoughts, Superstitions

    01:01:50 ‘Hypnotizability’, the Spiegel Eye-roll Test

    01:15:36 EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)

    01:21:43 Confronting Stress & Trauma

    01:27:56 The Mind-Body Connection

    01:31:35 Dealing with Grief

    01:35:45 Hypnosis in Children & Groups

    01:40:06 Drug Therapies & Hypnosis

    01:42:39 Breathing Patterns, Peak Performance

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David Spiegel, M.D.

Stanford Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Reveri Founder

Dr. David Spiegel is Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Center on Stress and Health, and Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he has been a member of the academic faculty since 1975. 

He is the founder of Reveri, the world's first interactive self-hypnosis app. 

Dr. Spiegel has more than 45 years of clinical and research experience, has published thirteen books, 404 scientific journal articles and his work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Cancer Institute and more. 

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