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Conquer Anxiety

12 episodes

Rewire anxious patterns — breathwork, cold exposure, meditation, and neuroscience-backed techniques.

Rewire anxious patterns — breathwork, cold exposure, meditation, and neuroscience-backed techniques.

Episodes

1
Modern Wisdom
Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry
Modern Wisdom Dr Russell Kennedy 2025-06-07

Dr. Russell Kennedy, a neuroscientist and physician who personally battled severe anxiety, explains why traditional cognitive approaches to anxiety often fail. He argues that an...

2
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Erasing Fears & Traumas Using Modern Neuroscience
Huberman Lab Andrew Huberman 2025-11-06

Erasing trauma requires rewiring neural circuits, not just talking about it - you need to extinguish old fear responses AND build new associations. Five minutes daily of deliber...

3
Modern Wisdom
Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett - The New Science Of Emotions, Anxiety & Brain Health
Modern Wisdom Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett 2025-08-30

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor at Northeastern University, psychologist, and a neuroscientist. Why do we feel emotions? From happiness and joy to anger, anxiety, and sorrow...

4
The Tim Ferriss Show
#733: Live 10th Anniversary Random Show with Kevin Rose - Exploring What's Next, Testing Ozempic, Modern Dating, New Breakthrough Treatments for Anxiety, Bitcoin ETFs, Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul, and Engineering More Awe in Your Life
The Tim Ferriss Show Kevin Rose 2024-04-23

Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose celebrate 10 years of the Random Show in a live recording, covering a wide range of topics. Ferriss shares his personal experience with accelerated TM...

5
Modern Wisdom
Doctor Mike - Reacting To The Rise Of Anxiety, Microplastics & Antidepressants
Modern Wisdom Doctor Mike 2024-07-20

Doctor Mike joins Modern Wisdom to discuss reacting to the rise of anxiety, microplastics & antidepressants. Key topics include fat loss strategies and metabolic optimization; b...

6
Huberman Lab
Tools for Managing Stress & Anxiety
Huberman Lab Andrew Huberman 2021-03-08

The physiological sigh is the fastest real-time stress reducer. Long exhales and cold water on your face activate the vagus nerve to shift you out of fight-or-flight. Consistent...

7
ZOE Science & Nutrition
Recap: Why you should eat 30 different plants every week | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Tim Spector
ZOE Science & Nutrition Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Tim Spector 2025-10-07

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Tim Spector joins ZOE Science & Nutrition to discuss why you should eat 30 different plants every week | hugh fearnley-whittingstall & tim spector....

8
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
179: Tapping (EFT) for Anxiety-Panic and PTSD
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast Gene Monterastelli 2016-03-20

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast host interviews Gene Monterastelli, editor of TappingQandA.com and author of Comprehensive Anger Management, about how he used EFT tapping to overcom...

9
Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga
Feldenkrais for Anxiety Relief with David Zemach-Bersin
Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga David Zemach-Bersin 2023-07-21

Shann VanderLeek interviews David Zemach-Bersin, one of the world's leading Feldenkrais experts with over 50 years of experience, who trained directly with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais...

10
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Tools for Managing Stress & Anxiety
Huberman Lab Andrew Huberman 2025-01-16

In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, Andrew Huberman explains science-backed strategies for managing stress in both the short and long term. He covers how the mind and body ...

11
Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Science of Gratitude & How to Build a Gratitude Practice
Huberman Lab Andrew Huberman 2025-10-23

Gratitude lists don't work well - receiving genuine thanks activates prefrontal circuits far more than expressing it. The effective protocol: engage with stories of others recei...

12
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Breathing for Mental & Physical Health & Performance | Dr. Jack Feldman
Huberman Lab Andrew Huberman 2025-11-13

Slow, controlled breathing directly reduces anxiety by activating specific neural pathways - this isn't placebo, it's brain circuitry. Box breathing and diaphragmatic techniques...

Related Research

Cyclic sighing in the clinic waiting room may decrease pain: results from a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Hanley AW, Davis A, Worts P, et al. (2025)
A 4-minute cyclic sighing exercise significantly reduced both pain unpleasantness and pain intensity in orthopedic clinic patients compared to a control condition.
Impact of different doses of cold water immersion on recovery from acute exercise-induced muscle damage
Wang H, et al. (2025)
Network meta-analysis of 55 RCTs found 10-15 min at 11-15°C optimal for reducing muscle soreness and damage markers.
Effects of Yoga Nidra on Stress, Anxiety, and Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Ghai S, Odyniec P, Ghai I (2025)
Meta-analysis of 73 studies (5,201 participants) found Yoga Nidra produced large reductions in stress (g = -0.80 to -1.70), anxiety (g = -1.35 to -1.43), and depression (g = -0.69 to -0.92) compared to active and no-intervention controls.
Mindfulness enhances cognitive functioning: a meta-analysis of 111 randomized controlled trials.
Zainal NH, Newman MG (2024)
Largest meta-analysis to date (111 RCTs, n=9,538) found mindfulness has small-to-moderate effects on global cognition, executive attention, working memory, and processing speed.
Effectiveness of Yoga in Modulating Markers of Immunity and Inflammation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Mishra B, Agarwal A, George JA, et al. (2024)
24 of 26 RCTs reported favorable effects of yoga on inflammatory markers (IL-6, TNF-α, CRP), though pooled meta-analysis results did not reach statistical significance due to high heterogeneity and bias risk.
Influence of Respiratory Frequency of Slow-Paced Breathing on Vagally-Mediated Heart Rate Variability.
You M, Laborde S, Ackermann S, et al. (2024)
Slow-paced breathing at 5-7 cycles per minute significantly increased cardiac vagal activity in athletes compared to spontaneous breathing, with no single frequency proving clearly superior.