Cortisol awakening response
Subject in Health & Fitness
Cortisol awakening response has come up in 3 episodes across 3 podcasts in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, The Tim Ferriss Show. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Andrew HubermanAmerican neuroscientist, professor at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast
Huberman said the book's core message is to raise cortisol in the morning and keep it low at night.
“the entire book could be summarized as get your morning cortisol high and your nighttime cortisol low, and your life's going to be 100 times better”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2553 - Andrew Huberman (Sep 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:30:55
Huberman attributes waking at two or three in the morning to failing to spike morning cortisol.
“if you didn't spike your morning cortisol, what happens is you might fall asleep just fine, but somewhere around two or three in the morning, people wake up”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Andrew Huberman: The Simple Habits That Will Transform Your Health (Sep 7, 2026) · Listen from 12:24
Huberman says higher morning cortisol shortens the duration of stress-induced cortisol spikes later in the day.
“The higher your morning cortisol, the briefer those spikes in cortisol will be to stress. You recover from stress better if your morning cortisol was high”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Andrew Huberman: The Simple Habits That Will Transform Your Health (Sep 7, 2026) · Listen from 7:50
Huberman claims morning sunlight can raise cortisol by up to 50 percent above baseline.
“I just look in the direction of the sun. I don't force myself to stare at it. I just get some sunlight in my eyes, which spikes morning cortisol by up to 50% above its baseline levels”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Andrew Huberman: The Simple Habits That Will Transform Your Health (Sep 7, 2026) · Listen from 6:38
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
- On Purpose with Jay Shetty · 1 episode
- The Tim Ferriss Show · 1 episode
Episodes
#2553 - Andrew HubermanThe Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 14, 2026 · 2 h 46 min
Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman talks with Joe Rogan about his new book, psychedelic therapy, stress, neuroplasticity, peptides and medical gatekeeping.
Andrew Huberman: The Simple Habits That Will Transform Your HealthOn Purpose with Jay Shetty · Sep 7, 2026 · 1 h 42 min
Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman tells Jay Shetty how morning cortisol, light, movement and meditation shape health, and why prayer transformed his life.
#876: Dr. Andrew Huberman — Peptides, Performance, and ProtocolsThe Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 h 14 min
Andrew Huberman talks with Tim Ferriss about Dorian Yates-style training, psychedelics, peptides, cortisol, sleep technology and his book Protocols.