Do Binaural Beats Actually Work?

Mr Murugan and Ms Fong · Sep 10, 2026 · 4m

There is a sound your ears never actually receive — but your brain builds it anyway.Put one tone in the left ear. Put a slightly different tone in the right ear. Your brain doesn't hear two sounds. It constructs a third rhythm out of the difference between them.That's a binaural beat. And the internet took this small auditory illusion and turned it into a productivity religion.In this episode, Mr Murugan and Miss Fong separate the real phenomenon from the marketing.IN THIS EPISODE

How binaural beats actually work — 300 Hz in one ear, 310 Hz in the other, and a 10 Hz beat that exists nowhere…