How To Train Your Brain Like A Muscle: Mental Fitness SECRETS (& A Headband That Makes You Smarter!) with Ariel Garten of Muse
Ben Greenfield
Nov 27, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Utilize Muse for five minutes daily to reduce burnout
A Mayo Clinic study found that doctors using Muse for an average of just over five minutes a day experienced a 54% reduction in burnout, along with improved cognition and sleep.
Listen to your heart to reduce stress
The heart meditation feature makes your heart's rhythm audible, training your interoception (internal awareness), which is negatively correlated with stress.
Train your brain to enhance oxygen delivery
The Muse Athena device uses FNIRS technology to let you actively train and increase oxygen delivery to your prefrontal cortex, similar to doing a targeted exercise for your brain.
Utilize Muse headband for precise sleep tracking
By measuring EEG brainwaves directly, the Muse headband provides more accurate sleep stage data, particularly for deep sleep, than wrist or finger-based trackers which only use proxies like HRV.
Enhance deep sleep with timed audio cues
An upcoming Muse feature will amplify your delta waves by delivering precisely timed audio sounds during deep sleep, helping to deepen and lengthen this restorative sleep phase.
Utilize Muse as digital sleeping pill for better sleep
The Muse can act as a 'digital sleeping pill' by tracking your brainwaves and automatically adjusting the volume of a story to guide you into sleep and help you fall back asleep if you wake up.
Meditate to clear brain plaque and combat cognitive decline
According to research from Dr. Dave Vago, meditation can help clear amyloid-beta plaques from the brain, which are associated with cognitive decline.
Utilize Gluten Guardian to effectively digest gluten
The host recommends a product called Gluten Guardian, which contains the enzyme Dicoptidyl Peptidase, to break down gluten effectively.
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