Shawn Wells, MPH, LDN, RD, CISSN, FISSN is a leading nutritional biochemist and expert on health optimization. Now known as the Ingredientologist (the scientist of ingredients), he has formulated over 1,000 supplements, food, beverages, and cosmeceuticals and patented 25 novel ingredients. Formerly a Chief Clinical Dietitian with over a decade of clinical experience, Shawn has counseled thousands of people on natural health solutions such as keto, paleo, fasting, and supplements. He has also personally overcome various health issues, including Epstein-Barr Virus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, depression, insomnia, obesity, and a pituitary tumor.

With appearances on national radio programs, morning television, and documentaries, Shawn's expert insights have helped countless health-conscious individuals manage stress, boost their performance, and experience sustained energy through practical holistic solutions.

Full Show Notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/updatepodcast

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You may have heard me talking lately about how I've been enjoying an evening cocktail comprised of ketones instead of alcohol.

This drink is a shockingly close equivalent to both the taste and effect of popular drinks like Gin & Tonic, Moscow Mule, Pina Colada, etc., but without any toxic side effects of alcohol (while I have no problem with a glass or two of organic, biodynamic red wine or a healthy cocktail here and there, it's been really nice to have a tasty alternative).

The company that makes the drinks I've been consuming - KetoneAid - was founded by my guest on today's podcast, Mr. Frank LLosa, a serial entrepreneur who has an incredible track record of success in a number of fields from real estate, to highly technical photography for National Geographic, to one of the first cloud-based storage systems available to the public.

Also formerly an elite Division I track athlete, Frank currently incorporates biohacking to stay competitive in all his endeavors, including a vegan ketogenic diet, hitting levels over 8.0mm on diet alone.

Visit https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/ketoneaid and code BEN is auto-applied for free shipping up to $20.

Full show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/ketopodcast

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Boundless Parenting: Everything you need to know about family, parenting, and raising healthy, resilient, free-thinking, and impactful children. Go to boundlessparentingbook.com and pre-order your copy now.

It’s time for another entertaining podcast with one of my dear family members.

My father, Gary Greenfield, joined me on the podcast episode “Why Water, Sunlight, Grounding & Relationships Are The Keys To Your Health & How To Feed, Clean & Protect Your Body Forever," during which we discussed his history of coming to Idaho from Miami (with the dream of becoming a farmer) and how he eventually became an expert in the water filtration industry, his journey from evangelical Christianity to orthodox and much more.

Later, my mom, Pat Greenfield, joined me on the episode “Ben Greenfield Interviews His Mom: Homeschooling, Coffee Shops, Writing, Music & More," in which we discussed my upbringing, homeschooling, trauma, and much more.

And this podcast episode features my younger brother Zach Greenfield, who is the director of operations at Greenfield Water Solutions (use code BEN10 to save 10%). Before joining the family business in 2021, Zach worked for the past 18 years as a flight paramedic and firefighter paramedic in Los Angeles, CA, and the Pacific Northwest. During this time, Zach also started and ran a successful private label Amazon FBA business, which he sold in 2019. Zach resides in Liberty Lake, WA, with his two daughters, Rowan and Zofia, 12 and 8 years old. In his spare time, Zach is finishing his nursing degree, enjoys skiing and fitness, spending time with friends and family, and enjoying the Pacific Northwest outdoors.

Greenfield Water Solutions creates water enhancement products that put life force energy back into your tap water utilizing structured/energized water concepts. The company's goal and promise is to deliver information and products that are congruent with nature and truly life-enhancing for body, soul, and mind.

Full Show Notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/zach

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News Flashes – Follow Ben on Twitter for more…

Want more morning alertness? Here's what the research says: How people wake up is associated with the previous night’s sleep together with physical activity and food intake...11:26

When it comes to exercise intensity, you constantly hear that (a) HIIT lowers the risk of mortality more than moderate-intensity continuous exercise, (b) HIIT doubles endurance performance after only 15 min of training over 2 weeks, (c) 1 min of HIIT is equivalent to 45 min of moderate-intensity continuous exercise, and (d) HIIT is more pleasant and enjoyable than moderate-intensity continuous exercise. But the evidence for these claims appears questionable...20:29 More here, here, and here.

Some say vegan diets decrease fertility and negatively affect sperm but it's the QUALITY of the plants/plant preparation that is most important here (less of an issue with a well-comprised healthy and clean plant-based diet): The Relationship between Plant-Based Diet Index and Semen Parameters of Men with Infertility: A Cross-Sectional Study...34:51

This case report suggests that most of the top 100 best-selling nutrition books in Canada are written by authors with financial incentives, half of whom also lack academic training or clinical experience in nutrition. One-third of the books also did not cite any scientific evidence: Many authors of publicly available top-selling nutrition books in Canada are without clinical nutrition credentials, do not cite evidence, and promote their own services or products (FYI, my book Boundless has over 700 scientific references)...39:37

Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training (illustrates the problem with research, and worth a look): Holiday reading: Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training...47:25

Full Show Notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/453

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If you've never given much thought to stimulating the tiny nerves in the bottom of your feet, training your eyes to move in a variety of directions, and even doing a bit of good old-fashioned jaw therapy, then you probably should - especially if you want better posture and enhanced physical and mental performance.

Neuroscience now confirms that the pros and cons of your posture are based on the fundamental fact that performance and strength are not just related to the muscles but also to your brain’s connections with the body. There are a variety of tools and techniques to help recalibrate faulty motor patterns and postural alignment.

My guest on this podcast, Annette Verpillot, has created the Posturepro Method, a course suitable for healthcare professionals, fitness practitioners, health enthusiasts, or anyone interested in improving their overall well-being. By taking a neuromechanical approach to musculoskeletal issues, the course focuses on improving communication between the brain and the body. The method can help remove compensatory movements and postural adaptations, leading to better posture and movement. With the course, you receive two parts and four modules with unique concepts, detailed notes and guides, a complete practitioner's toolkit, and a certificate upon completion. Participants also get access to free monthly webinars, discounts on products, and their own digital guide and summary sheets.

Annette Verpillot is also the founder of Posturepro, a health company specializing in restoring the brain-body connection through some of the world’s most advanced rehabilitation and injury prevention techniques. Additionally, Annette actively works with clients, professional athletes, trainers, practitioners, researchers, and law enforcement officers to develop solutions that promote a healthy, long, and pain-free life. She has worked with strength specialists, elite athletes, and successful coaches from professional and collegial leagues such as:

New Jersey Devils
San Francisco 49ers
University of New Mexico Men’s basketball team
Florida Gators Men’s basketball team
UNC Charlotte’s Men’s basketball team
etc. 

Visit https://bengreenfieldlife.com/posturepro and use code BEN15 for 15% off

Full Show Notes here: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/posturepropodcast

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For the full show notes, visit: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/micans

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Everyone wants to slow down the signs of aging, but very few people are going about it the right way. The negative aspects of aging are one of the most ubiquitous challenges to quality of life. However, one thing is for sure: scientists believe that a big part of the reason we experience aging the way we do is because of stressed or worn-out cells called senescent cells.

Senolytics is a term used to describe ingredients shown to help decrease these damaging senescent cells. 

My guest on this show - Gregory Kelly - has helped to develop several rare and powerful compounds that have scientifically shown senolytic activity, and which collectively cover a broader range of mechanisms than existing senolytic supplements on the market.

His protocol, which we discuss on this show, involves a two-day rejuvenation regimen that he suggests using every month. Intermittent short-duration dosing is the most common way that senolytics are used in studies, and data suggests that it can take weeks for senescent cells to re-accumulate in the body, which is why Greg recommends this approach.

Greg's compound is called "Senolytic" and made by my friends at Neurohacker Collective.

For the full episode page and shownotes, visit: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/senolytic

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Tim Corcoran is a leader of men’s groups, holistic rites of passage for boys, and wilderness quests, guiding and initiating men and boys into a new paradigm of the mature masculine.
Since 1999, Tim has dedicated his life to consciously furthering this vision of living in balance with the earth, community, family, and self.

As the founder of Purpose Mountain, Tim offers Nature-Based Purpose Guidance and Wilderness Vision Quests to support people with a love for nature who feel a deep yearning to discover their purpose and find their place in life. The quests are 10-day, in-person immersions that facilitate a deeper understanding and connection to nature.

Tim also serves as co-director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School, an organization he founded with his wife, Jeannine Tidwell. Twin Eagles Wilderness School is dedicated to facilitating deep nature connection mentoring, cultural restoration, and inner tracking. Jeannine is a mother, mentor, program leader, and coach. She offers programs for girls and young women in Rites of Passage. 

Jeannine Tidwell is a mentor and guide for people of all ages wishing to actualize their potential and reconnect with what's easily forgotten amidst the distractions and modern veneer of life. She is a mother of two sons and married to Tim Corcoran. Although she was born in southern Idaho, her ancestors are of European and South American descent. Jeannine offers 1:1 coaching and mentoring as well as leads Women's Retreats, Rites of Passage, and other programs throughout the Northwest.

Both Tim and Jeanine were featured in Boundless Parenting, and their incredibly unique approach to nature and wilderness-based traditions, habits, routines, and rituals are all featured in this episode. Tim and Jeannine live in Sandpoint, Idaho, with their two sons.

Full show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/corcorans

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Shine Sedona: Join my family and me in Sedona Arizona from March 10-12, 2023 at an amazing event hosted by SHINE. To book your spot for our VIP dinner visit bengreenfieldspeaking.com/sedona-dinner.

Boundless Parenting: Everything you need to know about family, parenting, and raising healthy, resilient, free-thinking, and impactful children. Go to boundlessparentingbook.com and pre-order your copy now.

Are you ready to learn how new science can teach you how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for your canine companions?

My guest on today's podcast - Dr. Karen Becker - is a true expert in natural pet care.

See, like their human counterparts; dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans—cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration, and autoimmune disorders—also beset canines. As a result, those beloved companions are vexed with preventable health problems throughout much of their lives and suffer shorter life spans. Because pets can’t make health and lifestyle decisions for themselves, it’s up to pet parents to make smart, science-backed choices for lasting vitality and health.

In this show, Dr. Becker gives practical, proven tools to protect your loyal four-legged companions. She galvanizes the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers and reveals people whose dogs have lived into their 20s and even 30s!

Dr. Becker's pet prescriptive plan focuses on diet and nutrition, movement, environmental exposures, and stress reduction and can be tailored to the genetic predisposition of particular breeds or mixes.

Medical breakthroughs have expanded choices for canine health—if you know what they are. This podcast is the definitive dog-care guide that empowers you with the knowledge you need to make wise choices and keep your dogs (and pets in general) healthy and happy for years to come.

Full show notes for this episode: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/foreverdog

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My guest on this podcast, TJ Robinson, aka “The Olive Oil Hunter®” is well-known as one of the world's most respected authorities on all things olive oil.

Widely acclaimed for his "platinum palate," TJ is one of the few Americans invited to serve as a judge in prestigious Italian olive oil tasting competitions.

As the founder of The Fresh-Pressed Olive Oil Club, TJ is dedicated to importing rare fresh-pressed olive oil, the most flavorful and most healthful extra virgin olive oil on the planet, until now virtually impossible to obtain year-round in the US. All his oils are independently lab-tested and certified for 100% purity.

But what you probably don't know about TJ is that he has a plethora of knowledge about vinegar and spices too, and he recently introduced me and my family's palate to a whole new world of flavor-enhancing vinegar tactics that I never knew existed, straight from his new culinary collection of artisanal vinegar. At GreenfieldPantry.com, the vinegar is $98.00 for a 4-bottle set with shipping included - no club membership is required for the vinegar. You also have the chance to join TJ's olive oil club to go along with your vinegar and receive a $1 offer for Olive Oil.

Full show notes for this episode: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/vinegarpodcast

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Six Senses Event: Join me in this beautiful 19th-century wine estate in Portugal and enjoy treatments that go beyond the ordinary in Six Senses Spa. Ten treatment rooms, an indoor pool with chromotherapy, underwater sound system and delicious food. Visit bengreenfieldlife.com/sixsenses and claim your spot today.

SHINE Sedona: Join my family and me in Sedona Arizona from March 10-12, 2023 at an amazing event hosted by SHINE. I'll be giving a keynote talk on breathwork and biohacking, and hosting a VIP Greenfield style home-cooked dinner prepared by my family. Visit bengreenfieldlife.com/SHINESedona.

My guest on this podcast, Angi Fletcher, is a model, actress, blogger, triathlete, and well-known wellness and health authority.

She is also one of the incredible parents featured in my new book Boundless Parenting.

A full-time international model from the age of 18, Angi lived in Europe and New York before settling in Los Angeles. Difficult circumstances in Angi’s life - including divorce, financial ruin, the death of her parents, and debilitating anxiety and depression - eventually led her to seek health through detoxing, cleansing, and rebuilding her life.

Angi’s husband, Arlynd Fletcher, is a functional movement and biomechanics specialist. After watching his mother suffer from back injuries throughout his childhood, Arlynd developed a drive to understand how the body works and what causes dysfunction. He has worked with many experts in the field in his research and has been called a modern-day “body whisperer.”

Angi and Arlynd’s website is devoted to sharing their multi-therapeutic approach to wellness shaped by personal experiences and years of research. This approach includes mindset shifts, physical tools, income opportunities, nutrition tips, and more. Angi and Arlynd live in Texas with their three children. 

 For the full shownotes, visit: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/fletcher

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Organifi (Gold): Get the restful sleep you need with the most soothing ingredients! Gold is a delicious superfood tea that contains powerful superfoods and mushrooms to help you sleep and recover so you can wake up feeling refreshed and energized. Go to organifi.com/Ben for 20% off your order.

Shine Sedona: Join my family and me in Sedona Arizona from March 10-12, 2023 at an amazing event hosted by SHINE. I'll be giving a keynote talk on breathwork and biohacking, and hosting a VIP Greenfield-style home-cooked dinner prepared by my family. For tickets to the Shine Event where I'll be a keynote speaker visit bengreenfieldlife.com/shinesedona.  To book your spot for our VIP dinner visit bengreenfieldspeaking.com/sedona-dinner.

Boundless Parenting Book: Everything you need to know about family, parenting, and raising healthy, resilient, free-thinking and impactful children. Go to boundlessparentingbook.com and pre-order your copy now.

Six Senses Event: Join me in this beautiful 19th-century wine estate in Portugal and enjoy treatments that go beyond the ordinary in Six Senses Spa. Ten treatment rooms and an indoor pool with chromotherapy and an underwater sound system. Visit bengreenfieldlife.com/sixsenses to claim your spot today.

Five years ago and then a second time six months ago, I traveled to Park City, Utah, where I underwent the most advanced, comprehensive biohacking procedures for longevity that, to my knowledge at least, currently exists. I literally had almost every joint in my body injected with stem cells, from toe to head, and then several organs, too, including my skin and genitals. Don't laugh ...

No surprises here: the effects were pretty profound for me, including notably faster workout recovery (as in, almost immediate recovery from soul-crushing workouts), getting sick less, a somewhat more youthful appearance (reduction of wrinkles, greater hair volume, darker hair coloration, etc.), shockingly improved sexual performance, particularly for erection firmness and size...pretty much everything else I wanted out of the procedure.

It's one of the most cutting-edge forays into self-experimentation I've ever had performed on my body, and it's called a Full Body Stem Cell Makeover®. The procedure was designed by Dr. Harry Adelson and Dr. Amy Killen of the Docere Clinics®, and what it entailed was injecting my entire body with my own stem cells.

A special variant of this procedure is making stem cell therapy available to a much wider base of people through a new clinic and a tithing program. You'll learn more about the background and history of stem cell therapy, the latest on musculoskeletal pain and longevity, and the future of stem cell treatments. 

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Anahata Ananda has been expertly guiding profound journeys of core healing and spiritual awakening for more than 20 years.

A special friend of mine, Anahata blends the depth of compassion and tenderness of an angel with the unparalleled wisdom and strength of a healer.

With an intention of acquiring knowledge of energy healing, shamanic teachings, emotional release, and self-empowered living at a more expansive level, Anahata made significant efforts in training with shamans, energy healers, and spiritual teachers from North America, Peru, India, and Asia. As a result of this commitment and professional mastery cultivation in the last decade, she has become well revered as a master healer/teacher in various healing modalities as well as breathwork facilitation techniques.

Her most recent endeavor is as the founder of the brand new “Shine” – Sedona’s Sanctuary for the Soul where transformational programs, trainings and sessions are offered year-round by world-class facilitators. This March 10-12, I'll be joining Anahata in Sedona for a special event open to the public at her new Shine facility. I'll be there sharing my favorite protocols to defy aging and optimize your body. You'll learn about various breathing techniques, simple hacks, scientific strategies for vibrant health – all designed to enhance your energy and improve your quality of life.

Closing out the event will be a VIP dinner featuring a home-cooked meal prepared by my family and me. You'll receive a signed copy of my cookbook and entertainment courtesy of my talented younger sister Aengel Greenfield. I'd love to meet you there.

Full podcast show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/shine

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Have you ever seen me wearing a crazy, laser-light helmet on my head, with red-flashing nasal probes shoved into my nostrils, and thought...

..."What the heck is that, and why would someone ever choose such a horrific fashion statement?"

But stick with me here because there's actually something to the science of this so-called use of "photobiomodulation." A lot of something and a lot of science.

The basis of all your thoughts, behavior, and emotions is the communication between your neuronal networks. This interaction leads to the formation of neural electrical signals known as brainwaves. Brain stimulation via photobiomodulation stimulates neuronal mitochondria, which increases cellular energy levels. This results in improved efficiency in neural signaling and communication.

The "helmet" red light technology I wear - which I don three to four times per week for 25 minutes - is the first in the world to demonstrate the ability to modulate and alter brainwaves using NIR electromagnetic (light) energy, measured through EEG. Delivering pulsed near-infrared (NIR) light energy into the brain’s Default Mode Network (DMN) upgrades brain capability, increases longevity, and improves physiological health. Microchip-boosted cold LED diodes in this setup - made by a company called "Vielight" (use code GREENFIELD to save 10%) - can safely maximize energy transmission into the brain, and intranasal photobiomodulation technology is used for ventral brain stimulation. Transcranial-intranasal systems like this enable comprehensive, non-invasive, and safe brain photobiomodulation. Visit https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/vielight for more info.

Show notes for this episode: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/lewlim

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Six Senses Event: Join me in this beautiful 19th-century wine estate in Portugal and enjoy treatments that go beyond the ordinary in Six Senses Spa. Ten treatment rooms and an indoor pool with chromotherapy and an underwater sound system offer a unique and layered wellness experience. Try delicious food made with local sensitivity and global sensibility. Head over to  bengreenfieldlife.com/sixsenses and claim your spot today.

Andrew Kaufman M.D. is a public speaker, researcher, natural healing practitioner, business and homeschooling consultant, inventor, and Covid-19 whistleblower.

We discuss why Dr. Andy took a step back from his career as a forensic psychiatrist, why misdiagnoses in western medicine are the third leading cause of death in this country, and how water plays a role in healing biological mechanisms. Dr. Andy recommends drinking filtered (reverse osmosis) and structured water. He developed something called the Alchemical Detox course, you can learn more about it here https://bengreenfieldlife.com/truemedicineuniversity. Find out why Dr. Andy is a big fan of water fasts. 

For the full shownotes, head to https://bengreenfieldlife.com/kaufman

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We took a deep dive into Gary Brecka's protocols and modalities. Prepare for a wild ride into the mind of Gary Brecka on this show!

Gary Brecka is the Co-Founder and Chief Biologist of 10X Health. He has over 20 years of experience in biohacking and functional medicine, and his passion lies in customizing peak performance protocols for individuals to achieve optimal health. As an expert on Serum Blood and Genetic Biomarkers, Gary optimizes human performance through nutrition, evidence-based science, and innovative technology such as oxygen, red light, nutrients/supplements, movement protocols, and more.

Gary works with a hand-picked clinical team of Board-Certified physicians (M.D.s), Ph.D. researchers, business leaders, functional medicine experts, motivators, and scientists, with one relentless mission: to uncover the safest and fastest way to optimize your mind, body, and spirit through modern science. Gary’s early career included work as a mortality-modeling expert in the insurance industry, using medical records and demographic data to predict mortality (how soon someone would die) to the month.  After selling that company, he wanted to utilize the information he had gathered to help people improve their quality of life.

For the full shownotes, head to https://bengreenfieldlife.com/brecka

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In today's show, we dive into why you should consider training in martial arts (especially jiu-jitsu), optimizing your endocannabinoid system to improve longevity and recovery for hard training, little-known ways to increase fertility, overcoming addictions to painkillers, and other drugs.

After suffering a spine and leg injury while entering college, Adam was treated with pharmaceutical opioids which led to an intense, but all too common, addiction. On his path to recovery, he became immersed in Zen Buddhism, health, and wellness, and began his lifelong path into spirituality. This eventually led Adam to study and graduate with a degree in applied physiology and kinesiology as he sought to bring greater physical healing to others, as he had done for himself.

For more than a decade, Adam was a strength conditioning and health coach at a renowned 5-star wellness and training facility, working with a wide array of professional athletes, company executives, and individuals seeking optimal health. Many of his clients were suffering from the same ailments—sleep issues, anxiety, inflammatory disorders, and a general emotional and spiritual disconnect. This led Adam to take a more holistic approach towards coaching his clients, combining advanced physical training with meditation and utilizing more ancient and shamanic healing arts, while incorporating a wide array of natural medicines and compounds including CBD. In 2017, Adam founded Element Health (use code BEN15 to save 15%), one of the leading suppliers of the most potent and high-quality full-spectrum CBD products in the world.

Full show notes here: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/adamwenguer

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Your body doesn't know what it doesn't know.

What I mean by that is that if you introduce a foreign substance, your body's immune system will mount a response – and often, that response can have negative health consequences.

From steroids to even everyday legal compounds, these unrecognizable elements may lead to severe autoimmune disease, gut problems, and cancer. Certain supplements and chemicals can also make you age faster because they interfere with your natural biological processes, temporarily or even permanently altering them.

Dr. Marcos De Andrade, who goes by Dr. De and I met at his facility in Miami called Biohax. The services at Biohax include complete biochemical analyses with panels designed to look at different concerns such as performance, mood, and toxin exposure. Based on those results, the “health magicians” at Biohax apply what they call their “4R Strategy” to remove inflammatory agents, replenish micronutrients, reinoculate your gut, and recover through sleep and therapeutics.

In this discussion with Dr. De, we open up the Liver King controversy (a topic I haven't spoken about on a podcast yet) and we discuss growth hormones, how to regenerate your thymus gland, safe steroids, peptides, muscle building, maintenance, and more. 

Full show notes here: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/drde

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Today I'm being interviewed by the great Marc Champagne, he's graciously allowed us to share this episode with you too! By now you know how much I love the idea of creating a legacy to pass on to the family, I got to talk a lot about that in this episode. I hope it inspires you to go on a legacy quest. 

On his podcast, Marc Champagne unpacks the mental fitness practices and reflective questions shaping the lives of some of the most successful and brilliant thinkers in the world. He is also the author of Personal Socrates, a best-selling book exploring the pointed questions that stimulate your mental fitness and teach you how to direct your internal narrative to work for you instead of against you. Marc studies the prompts and practices of legends such as Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, Robin Williams, James Clear, Coco Chanel, Stephen Hawking, and many others to bring clarity, intentionality, and possibility to every aspect of your life.

The host of the top 50-ranked podcast Behind The Human, Marc co-founded the journaling app KYO which reached 86.9 million people without any paid advertising. He has studied mental fitness practices for over a decade and consults with Fortune 500 companies as a mental fitness strategist and practitioner.

Topics we discuss:

• What Makes Ben Smile
• Training your spirit as much as your body
• Ben’s daily routine with his family
• How important legacy is and how it becomes present in your everyday decisions
• Having a higher belief system
• Resisting temptation

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Six Senses Event: Join me in Portugal and enjoy treatments that go beyond the ordinary in Six Senses Spa. Ten treatment rooms and an indoor pool with chromotherapy and an underwater sound system offer a unique and layered wellness experience. Try delicious food made with local sensitivity and global sensibility. Visit  bengreenfieldlife.com/sixsenses and claim your spot today.

News Flashes – Follow Ben on Twitter for more…

• Great breakdown of that whole recent “NR Causes Cancer” scare: Does Nicotinamide Riboside Fuel Cancer Growth?
  
• THC exposure alters brain maximal oxidative capacity. It mainly impairs complexes I, II, and III of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and mitochondrial coupling. THC also increases brain ROS production and mitochondrial free radical leak: Tetrahydrocannabinol Induces Brain Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Dysfunction and Increases Oxidative Stress: A Potential Mechanism Involved in Cannabis-Related Stroke
• Can CBD (with or without THC) improve sleep? Here's the answer: Use of Cannabidiol in the Management of Insomnia: A Systematic Review
• How to have a "Super Ager" brain: The Distinct Pathophysiology of ‘SuperAger’ Brains
• Here's a pretty cool natural way to "unclog" the arteries... Pomegranate Juice Consumption For 3 Years by Patients With Carotid Artery Stenosis Reduces Common Carotid Intima-Media Thickness, Blood Pressure and LDL Oxidation
• Gold kiwi fruit to the rescue for...constipation (pretty effective!): Two Gold Kiwifruit Daily for Effective Treatment of Constipation in Adults-A Randomized Clinical Trial
• Good tips: 10 sleep hacks to change your life - Love Sleep?

For the full show notes, visit: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/452

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HVMN: Visit hvmn.me/BenG and use code BENG20 for 20% off any purchase of Ketone-IQ️. This is an exclusive offer for podcast listeners. You can now find HVMN in California Earthbar locations (located within Equinox).

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I've been podcasting twice a week now for many years. The result is several hundred episodes of content that, taken together, are a virtual library of in-depth information on topics ranging from those as specific as the best mattresses to as vast as spirituality.

As we are now only hours away from 2023, I'm looking back on the past year of podcasting with fondness. The scientists, CEOs, doctors, and many others who appeared on the show this year have taught me way more than I ever could have anticipated. When my team and I decided to do this final episode of 2022, featuring what we've decided to call the top podcasts of the year, I could not pick favorites. The episodes here, instead, are those that you listened to most. We've taken them down in length so that you can hear the highlights of each episode over the course of a single episode that is around an hour and a half long. Then, of course, if you want more, we've linked to the original podcast so you can listen to the entire episode.

Thank you, sincerely for your support of my podcast this past year. I can't wait for you to hear what's in store for 2023, with even more high-quality discussion, educational content, personal stories, and even music and entertainment.

Full Shownotes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/bestof2022

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Cameron George knows more about kava - including the confusing myths and truths surrounding this somewhat controversial plant - more than anyone I know.

On this podcast, I had a chance to go on a walk with Cameron and talk all things kava, plant medicine and beyond. Cameron has been a previous guest on the show "The Natural Drug And Alcohol Alternative That May Transform The Future Of Mental Health: Everything You Need To Know About Kava With Cameron George.", and as you'll discover, he's a fascinating guy.

We go on a walk and talk discussing topics like:

• There is a spectrum of kava effects - expressing one characteristic more than the other
• Reverse tolerance effect of kava 
• What can kava be mixed with?
• Ben’s current position on the use of plant medicines and the whole psychedelic phenomenon
• Psychedelics have the capability to open up a portal to the other world 
  • Allows you to interact with entities and spirit 
  • A method to interact with the spiritual world 

Full Show Notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/camerongeorge

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Whenever I have a question or want to learn more about the latest advances in water technology, I turn to my friend, international water expert Robert Slovak.

I've had Robert on the podcast three times in the past, on the following episodes:

• Is “Drinkable” Seawater The Future Of Health Tonics?, How “Quinton” Works, Isotonic vs. Hypertonic & Much More With Water Researcher Robert Slovak.
• Water & Water Filtration: Everything You Need To Know About Water Filters, Alkaline Water, Structured Water, Hydrogen-Rich Water, Deuterium Depleted Water & Much More!
• Everything You Need To Know About How To Use Hydrogen Water: Timing, Dosing, Delivery Mechanisms, Hydrogen Tablets, Hydrogen Water Machines, Hydrogen Inhalers & Much More!

In this episode, you'll learn about the intricacies of Hydrogen and the benefits of drinking it, soaking in it, and applying it to a face mask. Robert addresses the internet myths about hydrogen that are surfacing and sets the record straight.

I don't know a lot of guys Robert's age who get around as well as he does, so I'm finally able to dig into some of his longevity practices, so you'll want to take notes on that. Robert walks us through a fascinating injury healing protocol involving Percutaneous Hydrotomy in San Miguel, Mexico.

Perhaps most importantly, Robert gives us the inside scoop on what specifics to look for when purchasing a water filtration system. 

Finally, are you still wondering which Quinton product is best for you and when to take it? Robert breaks down the difference between Isotonic vs. Hypertonic and in what scenario you will want to take each of them. 

Full show notes here: Bengreenfieldlife.com/slovak2

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Water and Wellness will also offer 10% off individual products that Ben recommends. *Canadian customers may use Vitaexpress.com/greenfield.

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Lucy Nicotine Gum: If you are looking for a cleaner and tastier alternative to other nicotine products, Lucy is for you. To save 20% on any order, visit bengreenfieldfitness.com/lucy and use discount code BEN20. 

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The latest "Feel Free" craze is just a bit controversial.

In a previous podcast I described why you've seen me throwing back a small blue bottle of absolutely euphoric, energizing goodness that is one of my favorite discoveries of late for energy, workouts, sex, a better mood, and more.

Inside the bottle is a tonic of plants from the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, a unique and potent blend of the earthy and spicy tones of the ancient tropical plants kava and kratom, along with refreshing pineapple juice, coconut, and premium sweet stevia leaves.

Get 40% off the Capsules with code BEN and 40% off the Drink with code BEN40 click here. 

So what's to worry about?

Problem is, since releasing that episode and also ranking Feel Free amongst my 5 Healthy Energy Shot Recommendations, I've gotten a lot of flack because some folks have reported upset stomach, a feeling of drunkenness or dizziness, addiction, withdrawal symptoms, and other problematic issues with Feel Free.

So in a recent podcast, I dove into the safety profile of the stuff, why some people genetically can't handle the kratom component, why most people are probably overdosing on the stuff and a host of other issues.

...many of the problematic issues have been solved by making a capsule version of Feel Free that has the exact 10 kava to 1 kratom ratio in the original product. Three capsules equal one serving of the tonic, which is 1/2 bottle.

My guest on today's show is the inventor of Feel Free, JW Ross.

Full show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/newfeelfree 

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Right now, it seems everyone is talking about breathwork. And at this point, you probably know you ​should​ be doing it. You’ve heard about the seemingly endless amounts of the neuroscience behind it, you’ve read the articles about the countless benefits, and maybe you’ve even dabbled in a few courses or guided sessions.

But even though it's clear that breathwork is powerfully good for us, many people still struggle to find the time and motivation to practice it regularly. Trust me, I'm guilty of this too. Sometimes I just have so much going on that it’s hard to allow myself to relax and give in to 20-30 minutes of not doing, and simply breathing.

Othership is my favorite new breathwork app created by my friend Robbie Bent.

Yes, I know, there's a dizzying variety of breathwork apps out there…but this one is just really darn good. It helps me look forward to doing my daily breathwork, which means I'm less likely to skip it for other “more important things.”

The app comes with over 500 extremely well-produced guided breathwork sessions for just about everything from “pick-me-up” energy boosts to “othertrip” sessions for “orbiting time and space.” I've personally been doing a 6-15 minute “upper” session each day, a “downer” session before naps or sleep, and on the weekends I've been incorporating the longer 50-70 minute holotropic-style trippy sessions. (It's better to listen with headphones, by the way, because many of the tracks also include binaural beats to shift you into different brainwave states.

Robbie Bent, is building a platform to reduce loneliness.  Robbie's company Othership, has built the first emotional training classes in North America using saunas and ice baths paired with a breathwork mobile app.  They also run live breathwork concerts in NYC, LA, Miami, and Austin.

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In a past episode, I revealed my discovery of what I consider to be the next frontier of electrical muscle stimulation.

…but with all other forms of EMS I've used in the past, although getting great results for injury rehab, muscle growth, targeted muscle “re-training,” and more, I've also had to deal with all sorts of wires, time-consuming electrode attachments, confusing user interfaces, and a pretty clunky experience that takes up a lot of time.

This brand-new electrical muscle stimulation suit called the Katalyst is a total game-changer. You literally just pull on the suit and select from any of the workouts on the app, and a personal trainer not only walks you through the entire workout, which involves functional fitness moves like squats, side lunges, presses, cardiovascular and power movements, and a whole lot more…

…but the intensity is automatically adjusted by your trainer as you go, and so it also creates a highly customized workout. This is one of the coolest time hacks for exercise that I've discovered in a long time, and—coming from a guy who has done a lot of different workouts—I can tell you that this thing is not some gimmicky “As Seen On TV” technology that you use to get a six-pack while you're sitting on the couch eating Twinkies.

In this episode, I interview the founder and CEO of Katalyst—Bjoern Woltermann—to take a deep dive into the latest science on EMS and how this new technology works.

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Last year, my sons and I watched the first season TV series called "The Chosen." It's basically the story of Jesus and his "chosen" disciples told in a very, very compelling manner.

While speaking with a friend about "The Chosen," he commented to me that he knew the creator of the project, and the guy actually happened to be into fitness, recovery, mind-body connection, biohacking, and many of the healthy living subjects we often discuss on this show. So he made the introduction to the man himself: Dallas Jenkins.

Dallas Jenkins, son of celebrated Left Behind author Jerry Jenkins, first produced the independent feature Hometown Legend at the age of 25 and shepherded it to distribution by Warner Brothers. In the nearly 20 years since, he has directed and produced over a dozen feature and short films for companies such as Universal, Lionsgate, Pureflix, Hallmark Channel, and Amazon. He is now the creator of the largest crowd-funded media project of all time, a multi-season series about the life of Christ entitled The Chosen.

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Plant medicine, psychedelics, Christianity, spirituality.

For the past year, I've been engrossed in how those topics fit together, if and how I want to incorporate those practices and concepts into my life, and what I want to share with you if you're also looking to sort through things yourself.

What has been particularly helpful in this process of thought and study is talking to (and reading books written by) other people who are also on this reflective journey. Paul Risse is one of those people. Paul first joined me on the podcast "The Christian Psychedelic: Should Christians Use Plant Medicines, Is Microdosing (Or Tripping) A Sin, Accessing Spiritual Realms, DMT & Much More With Paul Risse & Ben Greenfield." Today, Paul is back.

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You probably already know that I've become increasingly disillusioned with the use of plant medicines.

A key book I read that significantly informed my decisions on this topic was titled Pharmakia: The Biblical View of Drug Use, by Robert Orem. This is a book that I often mention these days when I'm discussing plant medicines (and in my opinion, if you're using or thinking about using plant medicines this is a book you must read). Many people aren't even aware that the Bible refers to drug use (in fact, there are 37 distinct references to drugs in the Bible) but his book is more than just a thorough investigation into what the Bible says about drugs. It is also a powerful, hope-filled message of hope and love, and freedom from addiction for drug users and addicts, or folks who feel like they are heavily attached to or dependent on plant medicines.

Robert Orem, the author of Pharmakia and my guest on this podcast, is a Christian former drug addict who researched the Bible’s references to drug use for many years. A teacher in jails, treatment centers, schools, and churches, he recently launched In Step Fellowships, a biblical recovery group for all types of addiction.

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I've had plenty of crazy biohacking experiences…

…and what I did recently with my friend Dr. Jeremy Stich is at the top of the crazy list.

A former ER physician, Dr. Stich began his healthcare journey in emergency medicine before several personal and familial health-related circumstances led him to seek alternative ways to pursue health. An outside-the-box thinker, Jeremy gained experience in precision genetics, several entrepreneurial endeavors, consulting, wellness technology, Eastern medicine training, and more. Creator of the BioEnergetic Institute and currently serving as the Chief Medical Officer for Ammortal, Inc., Jeremy's treatments are unlike any I've experimented with in the past.

Before I visited the BioEnergetic Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, Jeremy sent me cryptic texts about what he was building there. When I arrived at the Institute, I walked into the main room to be greeted by Jeremy and a giant device that looked like it was off the deck of Star Trek that blasted the entire space with pulsed electromagnetic energy (I've felt those types of frequencies before with my BioCharger). 

Jeremy took me into an adjacent room with a crystal ball-like-looking device attached to magnetic foot pads. He hooked me up to the foot pads, handed me the “crystal ball,” had me don headphones and a light-blocking eye mask, put on deep meditative music, and switched the device on.

As soon as the switch was flipped on, my whole body went to a different planet. I wept and laughed in a trance-like state as the waves circulated through my entire body. After about 40 minute, my body felt like somebody had pressed the reset button on my nervous system. Listeners who pre-purchase the Ammortal Catalyst unit to ship in Q1 2023 receive a $4,400 discount off retail ($10,000 instead of $14,400). The discount is auto-applied here bengreenfieldlife.com/ammortalcatalyst

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I feel fortunate to be invited to many, many events in the health and wellness industry...

...but honestly, lately, I haven't felt all that motivated to go to most of them.

There is one event, though, that is well, well worth the travel. It's called RUNGA and it's the most uplifting, rejuvenating, and empowering event I've ever attended. RUNGA is held twice a year for three days in Austin, TX, and I'm a regular. 

Only fifty guests are invited to the beautiful, secluded property, which gives RUNGA an intimacy that I've never felt at other events. The people who go have a wide range of backgrounds, but what they share is their dedication to optimal health.

Each day, we woke up to a delicious, nourishing organic breakfast, then spent the days engaged in activities like yoga and meditation, oxygen treatments, IVs, biohacking, cooking workshops, and more.

The first was a panel called "State of Mind," during which we talked about spirituality, psychedelics, smart drug stacks, and general mindstate shifting using plant medicines, technologies, breath, and other cutting-edge, scientific and free, and natural methods to alter one's state of mind. My co-panelists were Tero Isokauppila from Four Sigmatic, Joseph Anew from the Intuitive Warrior podcast (and the creator of RUNGA), and my friend Dr. John Lieurance of MitoZen. 

I recorded both the panel and the Q&A, so there's a huge range of topics covered in this one episode -  If you're interested in joining me for the next RUNGA event in April 2023 in Austin, Texas, you can apply here. I'd love to meet you in person.

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Wild Health is, in my opinion, the most cutting-edge medical network in America, with trained precision medicine practitioners in all 50 states delivering the most advanced and customized medical care I've ever experienced.

They have been up to plenty of exciting changes at Wild Health, including a genetically optimized athletic team for maximal and sustained performance and recovery, data treating metabolic and cardiovascular disease with incredible results without the use of prescription medication, a brand new artificial intelligence program to read labs and interpret bloodwork, a fellowship program for medical students, an entire 2022 conference series available to the general public...

...and even a concierge, high-touch executive health program usually available by referral only but now available to my audience as an exclusive (it’s a VIP, 360° health program built with busy executives and entrepreneurs in mind).

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I don't normally get worried or overthink when I'm about to interview a podcast guest. After all, I've been doing the show for a while now.

But I have to admit, before my talk with fitness and nutrition (and now finance) master Larry North, a 35-year talk radio veteran, I was a *little* nervous.

I met my new friend Larry at a private event in Dallas, Texas, when I was there speaking to an investment firm. Recently, Larry made a fascinating organic shift from the field of fitness to the field of finance. I asked Larry if he'd participate in one of my famous "walking podcasts," so I could learn more, and my nerves instantly vanished when we started talking.

For more than three decades, Larry has been a leading expert in the health, fitness, nutrition, and weight loss sector. He is the author of three best-selling books: Larry North's Slimdown For Life: 21 Days to a Lean and Healthy You, Living Lean, and Get Fit!: The Last Fitness Book You Will Ever Need. “The Great North American Slimdown,” Larry's globally successful weight-loss program, has reached more than $150 million in revenue. Larry has also operated cutting-edge health clubs and appeared on numerous radio and television programs.

After advising team members at the capital investment firm Satori, regarding health and wellness initiatives through the firm’s “Optimal Living” initiative, Larry found himself inspired by the principles of conscious capitalism and began to see his relationship with Satori as a continuation of his lifelong focus on impacting and enriching the lives of others.

Larry’s orientation toward others and his gift for selflessly connecting values-aligned people have resulted in the development of countless valuable personal and professional relationships throughout the Satori ecosystem.

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Seth Spears is an adventure-loving entrepreneur, business connector, product designer, podcaster, marketing strategist, and angel investor who loves the great outdoors, world travel, live music, sports, healthy food, strong drinks, intimate conversation, deep connections, and conscious self-improvement.

Also, he's one of my buddies.

The co-founder and CEO of Wellnesse, a B Corp Certified brand of oral, hair, and skincare products, Seth Spears is also the legacy co-founder of WellnessMama.com, the largest natural living blog, and podcast for women and moms.

Seth’s passion project and side hustle is Rewild Gear, an outdoor equipment company he started with his three brothers whose mission is to encourage men to spend more time in the great outdoors through the design and creation of top-quality knives, fire starters, and cookware while promoting conservation, sustainable product use, and ethical business practices. Rewild's Gasper knife is my favorite for hunting (and we talk more about it in this episode).

Seth is featured in a special chapter of my Boundless Parenting book, for which this podcast interview is part of a series leading up to the official book launch in early 2023. Outside work, Seth is a father of six, an avid outdoorsman, hunter, skier, lover of water activities, live music, Cincinnati Reds baseball, Cincinnati Bengals football, and Kentucky basketball, a perpetual optimizer, and a consummate business connector.

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That's what Beth McDougall, MD, has to say about biohacking practices and protocols like peptide therapy, bioresonance, and pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy.

An early pioneer in orthomolecular nutritional medicine and European biological medicine, Beth McDougall was among the first group of doctors to be trained in Functional Medicine back in 1998. Her training in BAH and ACMOS, biophysical diagnostic and therapeutic techniques based on quantum principles, and her foundation in internal medicine earned Beth the reputation of a medical detective and allows her to create highly specific, personalized, and effective treatment protocols for her patients.

Beth is the founder and Medical Director of the Integrative Medical Clinic, CLEAR Center of Health, which has served the San Francisco Bay area since 2002. She is also the Chief Medical Officer of Resonant Technologies Group (RTG), a fund with four health companies in its portfolio: Immunacor, Sonaphi, Sourcewave, and Cell Code, with energetic diagnostic and healing technologies based in resonance physics. She sits on the advisory board for Energy Medicine University and the scientific advisory board for the Resonance Science Foundation.

An internationally-recognized speaker, Beth is a pioneer of a new medical paradigm based on the energetic nature of reality, bio-optimization, and cutting-edge energetic therapeutics. She has been featured in many publications and documentaries. Beth's new book, Your Pristine Blueprint, explores her life journey and professional experience that led to her current understanding of the energetic basis of health and disease rooted in our degree of resonance with the unified field.

In April, Beth opened a cutting-edge bio-optimization facility called JYZEN Labs. As the co-founder and Medical Director, Beth drives the development of research and data-driven personalized health programs for her clients at JYZEN.

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Recently, at a nutrition conference, I met Dane Johnson, the owner and founder of CrohnsColitisLifestyle.

His passion, transformative healing story, and the uniqueness of his holistic approach were so fascinating that I knew I had to get him on the show.

Dane’s passion for holistic nutrition began after his own life-threatening battle with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. At 19 years old, Dane experienced his first symptoms of IBD, with blood in his stool and multiple uncontrollable bowel movements daily. He nearly died at 27 years old while taking many different traditional medicines. Determined to create a better life for himself, Dane made a deep commitment to himself not to be a victim of this disease and sought out natural healing modalities.

Dane is a leading practitioner in the holistic community with more than ten years of experience in the health and wellness industry. He received his Holistic Nutrition degree from the Energetic Health Institute and has since helped others find natural solutions to their battles with Crohn's/colitis. Dane has been featured in fitness magazines such as "Fitness for Men."

Dane is the creator of the proprietary healing program S.H.I.E.L.D, a personalized, natural approach to reversing Crohn's and colitis. The co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Heals foundation, the founder of CCLifestyle, and a member of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals, Dane is an established leader in the field. Throughout his battle with Crohn's/colitis, Dane always wished there was a place where he could connect with others who suffer and help build a healing plan, and he is now making that possible for others.

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My inspiring, intriguing, and mad scientist-esque smart drugs and nootropics expert guest on today's show is Mark Effinger, AKA "Mr. Noots."

Together, Mark and my buddy Matt Gallant (CEO of biOptimizers) masterminded Nootopia, the first-ever company to offer 100% personalized, customized nootropics stacks. Previous articles & episodes:

• The Ultimate Guide To Nootropics: Part 1
• The Ultimate Guide To Nootropics: Part 2
• Microdosing, Nootropics, Psychedelics, & Plant Medicines

A seasoned entrepreneur and intrapreneur (entrepreneur while working within a large organization), Mark has been successful in industries from advertising to lasers to software and more. Companies turn to Mark for his clear grasp of the startup-to-sellout process, and he's passionate about working with CEOs, company founders, and management. Mark is a specialist in biochemistry, hormone and brain optimization, product development, social media, online media, software development...you get the idea. 

The death of Mark's former wife from a painkiller overdose put him on the path to creating high-performance experiential nutritional supplements. After four years of development, he released a product called "Limitless NZT-48," as in the movie. Mark considers the biggest challenge with nootropics to be that everyone’s brain chemistry is unique. For the first time ever, Nootopia has solved this with a personalized process and product. First, you fill out an intake form. They use this to evaluate your goals and brain chemistry, then customize their nine core blends. Whether you want to say goodbye to afternoon energy crashes, increase your verbal fluency, boost your emotional intelligence, or reach other optimization goals, Nooptopia gets you 100% personal help every single day. The system even comes with an app that guides you every step of the journey and allows you to give feedback to customize your blends even further.

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If I asked you to make a list of foods that you predict would spike your blood sugar, what would be on your list? Coca-Cola? Twinkies? Frappuccinos?

Probably not steak and green beans, right?

Well, as it turns out, steak and green beans spike my blood sugar. I wouldn't have predicted that, either, before I started wearing a continuous glucose monitor (CGM). You've likely heard of CGMs, because they're a big trend in the health industry right now, but if you haven't, what they do is pretty self-explanatory. They monitor your glucose...continuously.

Paying attention to your blood sugar is one of the most important things you can do for your health. Poor glucose control is most often associated with diabetes, but it also affects a range of chronic conditions, including Alzheimer's, stroke, heart disease, and more. It can also lower your day-to-day energy levels, impede your ability to control your weight, and decrease your sexual function.

I wear a CGM from a company called Levels. As a self-proclaimed tech geek, I appreciate that the Levels app goes way beyond most companion apps for CGMs. Until I was a Levels member, I thought I understood my metabolic health pretty well. I definitely didn't expect steak and green beans to be on the watch list. But because your body's glucose response to food is highly individual, there's no way to know until you test.

Casey Means, MD, my guest on today's show, is the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder Levels, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and she guest lectures at Stanford University.

Casey's mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tools that can facilitate a deep understanding of our bodies and inform personalized and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Dr. Means’s perspective has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, Metabolism.

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Throughout my career, I've been known as a health and fitness icon.

I have to admit that I sometimes find this kind of silly.

It's not that I don't think that taking care of my body is important. Far from it. My physical health remains a top priority, and this will probably be the case until the day I die. However, my days as a bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, obstacle course racer and hardcore masochistic endurance athlete are over, and my vision for my life has notably changed (although I'm still heavily sporting in different skills, such as bowhunting and pickleball). Back in January, I released an article about how to find your purpose, and in that article, I also shared my own new purpose statement that reflects the higher priority I'm now placing in my life upon faith and family, as opposed to, say, fitness: “Love God through prayer and worship, and love my family through preparing and providing.”

A significant part of living my purpose is starting to think and talk more about money and legacy.

How you handle your finances has a substantial impact on how you show up in the world and how you show up for your family.

What this means for Jessa and me is that we are committed to only spending the money we need to spend to live a modest, satisfying life. For instance, we still go on vacations, and when we do, we don't deprive ourselves of pleasures like going to a nice restaurant. But we're careful with spending, never mindlessly purchasing things that are likely to quickly lose their appeal. Rather, we have decided that additional income that we earn will be put back out into the world to help people.

This philosophy also directly applies to the family business. The primary goal of Ben Greenfield Life is to touch lives, not to make money. However, that doesn't mean that we don't care about profitability, since we need to be profitable to continue to share with you with the help of a paid team. 

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My friend Dr. James DiNicolantonio's new book, WIN: Achieve Peak Athletic Performance, Optimize Recovery and Become a Champion, is undoubtedly one of the most evidence-based books I've seen on athletic performance.

The book teaches the underlying pillars of physical development and fitness, such as nutrition, muscle growth, fat loss, body composition optimization, recovery, supplementation, and much more.

Dr. DiNicolantonio is a cardiovascular research scientist and doctor of pharmacy at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. A well-respected and internationally known scientist and expert on health and nutrition, he is on the editorial advisory boards of several medical journals and is the author or coauthor of approximately 300 publications in the medical literature. Dr. DiNicolantonio serves as the Associate Editor of Nutrition and British Medical Journal’s (BMJ) Open Heart, a journal published in partnership with the British Cardiovascular Society. He has shared his expertise on The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors, and international news media outlets.

Not only are there specific protocols for top athletic performance in his book WIN, but all the recommendations are backed by a wealth of scientific evidence. The theories and practices that have been formulated in the book are suitable for both beginners as well as advanced athletes, complete science nerds, bodybuilders, the average Joe or Jane wanting to lose an extra few pounds, and even top-tier elite athletes.

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My inspiring and intriguing guest on today's show - the great Dr. John Lieurance of Mitozen - is someone I consider to be the "Dr. Strange" of the medical and biohacking world.

A naturopath and chiropractic neurologist at Advanced Rejuvenation and Ultimate Cellular Reset, author of Melatonin: Miracle Molecule, and crazy mad scientist formulator behind MitoZen, John is my friend and trusted medical adviser.

Dr. Lieurance and I recently announced the official launch of a brand new event that I'll be speaking at entitled Elements of Vitality, in Sarasota, Florida, taking place on Friday, December 2nd. The event is based on the premise of turning to the elements of air, light, water, and earth to overhaul and optimize full body, mind, and spirit health, including harnessing the magnetic healing frequencies of earth, benefiting from the power of photonic light and the sun, properly using potent oxygen therapies and ozone, how to create deeper hydration with water, and much more.

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If you have teenagers like I do, or have kids that will become teenagers, or are considering having kids that will become teenagers, or even know anyone with a teenager…

…you've probably thought about kids and substance abuse.

Of course, all parents want to give their kids the best possible resources and support to prevent problems with drugs and alcohol. But what does that look like? Is it teaching moderation or prohibiting substances before the legal age? How much does genetics play into it? Those are big, important questions, considering that according to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, teen drug addiction is the nation's largest preventable and costly health problem. And nine out of 10 adults with substance use disorder report they began drinking and taking drugs before age 18.

My guest on this podcast, Jessica Lahey, was born into a family with a long history of alcoholism and drug abuse. Despite her efforts to avoid that path, Jessica struggled with alcoholism herself until 2013, when she got sober in her early 40s. Her latest book, The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence, is a comprehensive resource that parents and educators can use to help prevent substance abuse in children. A parent herself, Jessica has also learned firsthand how to navigate this highly sensitive and important topic. Jessica is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed.

For more than twenty years, Jessica has taught every grade from sixth to twelfth in both public and private schools, spent five years teaching in a drug and alcohol rehab for adolescents in Vermont, and serves as a prevention and recovery coach at Sana at Stowe, a medical detox and recovery center in Stowe, Vermont.

Jessica writes about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, is a book critic for Air Mail, and her biweekly column “The Parent Teacher Conference” for three years at the New York Times. Jessica designed and wrote the educational curriculum for Amazon Kids’ award-winning animated series The Stinky and Dirty Show, and was a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee for her Creative Nonfiction magazine essay, “I’ve Taught Monsters.”

The co-host of the #AmWriting podcast, with bestselling authors KJ Dell’Antonia and Sarina Bowen, Jessica also holds the dubious honor of having written an article that was later adapted as a writing prompt for the 2018 SAT.

Jessica will be soon featured in a special chapter of my Boundless Parenting book, for which this podcast interview is part of a series leading up to the official book launch in late 2022. She lives in Vermont with her husband, two sons, and many dogs.

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Earlier this summer, as you probably heard if you've been following me, I declared that plant medicines were a "big problem"...

…and that after a great deal of study, contemplation, and prayer, I decided to put up some big ol' warning signs against the use of mind-altering substances, especially considering their widespread abuse and potential for psychological harm, but perhaps of more concern, the increasing trend to put one's faith for healing, trauma, relationship work, self-discovery, divination, spiritual awakening, and anything of the like in drugs instead of in God. 

I also feel that it's my God-given responsibility to educate you on why I made this choice, in the hope not necessarily that you also stop but that you can make an informed decision for yourself. For (many) more details about this topic, you can read the two-part article series that I published in June and listen to my more recent podcast with Josh Trent:

• The Big Problem With “Plant Medicines”: Part 1
• The Big Problem With “Plant Medicines”: Part 2
• The Pros And Cons Of Plant Medicines, The Truth About Pharmakia, Spiritual Growth & Much More With Josh Trent Of Wellness + Wisdom.

Social media is another important pathway for me to offer thoughts and prompt discussion on this popular topic. My Instagram post announcing my decision in June earned more than 2,500 likes and a wide range of responses in the form of comments, which I appreciate because I put my views out there honestly, and I want you to, also, even if they don't line up with what I'm saying.

I don't hold back on my Twitter feed either, which has more than 88,000 followers. Last year, Twitter launched Twitter Spaces, an online forum for live audio conversations. Spaces are another cool way for me to have open and unfiltered discussions about different topics that are on my mind.

This latest Twitter Space audio – graciously hosted by @AncestralVril and joined by @CenterHps and @ReclaimMind - goes even deeper into how I got to where I am today with my stance on plant medicine, which, for all its nuance, really comes down to a single belief: you just don't need drugs to talk to God or hear His voice or seek His direction. This was a Q&A that was open to many voices, so you'll hear many opinions other than mine, and I think you'll find the wide range of views quite beneficial for better understanding this topic.

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My friend Joseph Anew is the mastermind behind one of my all-time favorite immersive VIP wellness experiences on the face of the planet: RUNGA, happening again this year, October 13th-15th (click here to join me and my family there in Austin Texas for it!). 

But he's much more than that.

Not only has Joseph joined me in the past for episodes including:

• Digital Detoxing, Travel-Proofing Your Immune System, Underground Body Weight Workouts & More With Joe DiStefano.
• Kettlebell Yoga, The Best 5 Cardio Machines You Can Use, How To “Reset” Your Body With An Adventure & Much More!

But I've also appeared on his Intuitive Warrior podcast (previously called the Stacked podcast) on the episodes:

• RUNGA Live Panel with Ben Greenfield, Dr. Jason Sonners, Dr. Chris Shade, and Leland Stillman, MD
• Finding Purpose & Staying Charged with Ben Greenfield

Joseph Anew is an international speaker, fitness expert, entrepreneur, and lifestyle coach. During his eight years as Head of Sport and Training at Spartan Race, Joseph worked full-time with professional endurance athletes and taught seminars worldwide. From there, Joseph went on to found RUNGA, an experiential lifestyle brand empowering individuals through highly effective and sustainable practices that fuel health, wellness, and performance. He shares his teachings and interviews inspiring guests on his podcast Intuitive Warrior.

Emilía Rún is a plant-based chef, Kundalini yoga teacher, and mindfulness meditation teacher. With nutrition as her primary focus, Emilía also credits yoga and meditation as pivotal to her healing from lifelong painful autoimmune disease. Since stumbling into a class at 18 years old, the teachings of Kundalini yoga, and later mindfulness, have allowed her to cultivate an unbroken connection to the heart, which serves as a compass in her daily life. Eventually becoming a teacher in both herself, Emilía has trained under Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Tej Kaur Khalsa, Krishna Kaur, and Siri Bahadur Khalsa.

At RUNGA, Joseph leads workouts, kettlebell instruction, and mobility drills. But RUNGA goes far beyond fitness. If you join me at RUNGA in Austin, Texas, this October 13th-15th, you can spend three life-changing days treating your mind and body to organic chef-prepared meals, daily movement, and meditation, plus full access to the latest anti-aging biohacks and health-optimizing therapies, with a lively community of like-minded health-seekers. It's the one event I make sure to attend every year. Click here to learn more or to apply today.

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Lenore Skenazy has been known by the nickname “America’s Worst Mom.”

And yet I'm featuring her as a parenting expert in my upcoming Boundless Parenting book.

Hear me out...

Lenore graduated from Yale in 1981, and earned her master’s degree from Columbia University in 1983. A speaker, blogger, syndicated columnist, and reality show host, Lenore has been featured by national media outlets, including NPR, the New York Daily News, Good Morning America, and NBC News. Until 2008, Lenore was a regular columnist for the New York Sun. Her controversial piece, "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone," received worldwide news coverage and earned her that "Worst Mom" nickname.

However, the column also led to the founding of a blog called Free-Range Kids, which is "fighting the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, failure, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers and/or the perils of a non-organic grape." A bestselling book that followed, also called Free-Range Kids, kicked off a movement that promotes childhood independence and resilience as the path for children to grow into capable, confident, and happy adults. Lenore serves as the president of Let Grow, the non-profit organization behind Free-Range Kids.

On her television show World's Worst Mom, Lenore trains overprotective parents to give their children more independence and confidence. Lenore Skenazy believes that the concept of helicopter parenting, excessive and often unnecessary worry about safety, and lack of creative and slightly dangerous free play are hampering the health and growth of children.

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Back in June of this year, I made one of the most important decisions of my life.

I announced, after much contemplation and prayer, to stop using plant medicines.

In a comprehensive two-part article series that provoked a wide range of responses, I detailed my reasoning for reaching this conclusion (you can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here). And while I've returned to reiterate this decision here and there since June, I have not yet - until now - devoted an entire podcast to the subject.

Today I'm doing just that, as a guest on my friend Josh Trent's Wellness + Wisdom Podcast. Josh is the CEO and founder of Wellness Force Media, a company that has a mission to help humans heal mental, emotional, and physical health through podcasts, programs, and a global community that believes in optimizing their potential to live life well. Josh has spent the past 19+ years as a trainer, researcher, and facilitator discovering the physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world.

In Josh's words, he has been "bouncing around inside my orbit and consciousness) for 10+ years now, but it took this rather polarizing and controversial topic to bring us together for a real discussion on his Wellness + Wisdom podcast.

Now, Josh is not for or against plant medicines. He does believe that plant medicines have special use cases, and that four lifesaving "levers" that need to be taken into account when considering usage:

1. Preparation. Was the plant medicine prepared in a sacred way? Does the shaman or facilitator have the sacred experience and trusted lineage, combined with a pure heart?
2. Setting. Has the space been properly cleared of dark energies, and are all participants aligned with humility and curiosity?
3. Intention. Has the participant done preliminary work to get very clear on their intention, and to not come to the medicine with a disempowered wish?
4. Integration. Is there a pre-, peri-, and post-integration skilled facilitator so the participant will avoid going away with no lessons learned?

This podcast episode may ruffle some feathers. But at the end of the day, you are the only one who can answer the profoundly important question of whether or not you will partake in plant medicine. Hopefully, this fascinating conversation with Josh will get you thinking (and if you'd rather watch the video, that's below, too).

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Sex is a subject I can't (and don't want to) ignore...

...because sexual health is just as important for your physical, mental, and spiritual fitness as lifting weights, meditating, or praying.

This is why I devoted an extensive chapter to hormones, libido, and sex in general in my book Boundless. I have also podcasted on sex, including episodes with Jamie Wheal ("Biohacking Sex, Tantric Breathwork, Plant Medicines For Orgasmic Enhancement & Much More."), Kim Anami ("A Vaginal Weightlifting Coach Reveals Her Secrets On How To Train Your Body For Soul-Stretching, Bed-Shaking, Neighbour-Complaining Sex"), and Dr. Richard Gaines ("The Non-Pill, Natural Alternative To Viagra That Instantly Fixes Erectile Dysfunction, Boosts Drive In Men & Women, Enhances Orgasm & Much More.").

Then there was the wildly popular podcast with Susan Bratton, "Biohacking Sex: The Best Tips, Tricks, Supplements & Food To Optimize Libido, Desire & Arousal.", an episode that included sixteen bedroom and sex biohacking tips. Since it's been awhile since I've tackled the somewhat controversial, but nonetheless thrilling, topic of optimizing your sex life, I thought it was time to get Susan back on the show.

Susan Bratton is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships. Married to her husband Tim since 1993, Susan is an author, award-winning speaker, and serial entrepreneur who teaches passionate lovemaking techniques to her fans around the world. Susan’s fresh approach and original ideas have helped millions of people of all ages, and across the gender spectrum, transform having sex into making love.

As the CEO and co-founder (with her husband) of Personal Life Media and The 20, Susan has authored 35 books and programs and launched a line of libido support supplements for the sexual biohacker community. A deep thinker with a sweeping foundation of knowledge in human sexuality, Susan has been featured in The New York Times and on CNBC and the TODAY show as well as appearing on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and NBC.

Susan Bratton’s straight-talking, fearless perspectives are rooted in her personal experience of watching her sex life wither while she and her husband pursued dynamic careers. When their relationship hit a crisis point, the couple made a fierce commitment to do whatever it took to keep their family together and revive the passion in their marriage. Today, she and her husband have the kind of dream relationship most people long-since stopped believing is even possible—until they discover Susan’s teachings.

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Zero Acre Farms is on a mission to remove vegetable oils from the food system. Vegetable oils are the most consumed food in the world after rice and wheat, and are leading drivers of chronic disease and deforestation. At Zero Acre Farms, they make healthy oils and fats from fermentation, not cleared rainforests. Their first product, which they call Cultured Oil, has the highest level of good fats, lowest levels of bad fats, and a 90% smaller environmental footprint than vegetable oil.

I've tried the new Zero Acre Farms Culture Oil. It tastes good, cooks well, seems to have a decent smoke point, and seems to be an affordable, environmentally friendly alternative to what I consider to be one of the scourges of the nutrition world: vegetable oil.

My guest on this podcast, Jeff Nobbs, is a healthy food innovator on a mission to reverse chronic disease and help fix the many problems in today’s food system. After an early career in technology, Jeff founded the healthy fast casual restaurant chain Kitava, served as COO of Perfect Keto, and co-founded food security non-profit HelpKitchen. Jeff is now co-founder and CEO of Zero Acre Farms, makers of Cultured Oil.

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When I interviewed Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis in the episode "Tony Robbins, Peter Diamandis & Ben Greenfield Reveal New Anti-Aging Biohacks & Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine You’ve Never Heard Of Before.", we discussed a special form of injury and recovery physical therapy called "Counterstrain", which was also featured in Tony's book Lifeforce and is a cutting edge manual therapy technique that provides relief from pain and dysfunction.

I was so interested in this protocol that I had one of the leaders in the Counterstrain movement - Tim Hodges - fly to my house to do a treatment on me. It was like nothing I've ever experienced, so I hosted Tim on this podcast to delve into exactly what Counterstrain is, who it's for, and what it does exactly.

Tim Hodges has worked in the field of physical rehabilitation since 1996. He is involved in the ongoing development of the Counterstrain technique and the creation of training programs renowned for producing highly skilled Counterstrain Practitioners. In 2003, Tim started his private practice, now called Counterstrain Portland. A Teaching Assistant since 2003 and Facial Counterstrain Instructor for the Jones Institute since 2014, he is one of a select few certified to teach the modern version of Counterstrain.

He has helped Brian Tuckey develop many of the Counterstrain techniques used today. Tim continues to apply his expertise in the field through private treatment at Counterstrain Portland, the mentoring of Healthcare Practitioners at the Counterstrain Academy and by teaching large-scale continuing education seminars for health care providers. Tim created counterstrain.com, the Counterstrain brand and along with Brian Tuckey created 3D Counterstrain.

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Angelo Keely is the co-founder and CEO of Kion, a performance and longevity supplement and functional food company dedicated to helping people fully experience a joyful, active life by providing pure, energy-enhancing solutions. Angelo Keely, along with yours truly, first started Kion in 2017 with a dream of creating something that motivated people to continue on their personal health journeys.

For a while now, I've been working with an entrepreneurial couple named Jim and Jamie Sheils to improve their fitness, health, nutrition, and longevity...

...and we've become dear friends in the process.

Jim and Jamie Sheils are the fit, sexy parents of four children ranging in age from toddler to teen. They are also the founders of a fantastic company called 18 Summers, which refers to the number of summers you have with your children. The goal of 18 Summers is to help support families with a formula for lifelong parent-child connection, trust, bonding, respect, and experience. Jim and Jamie have also authored the popular ebook The Family Board Meeting, which outlines three simple steps parents can take to create lasting connections with their children.

Jim Sheils is an entrepreneur who consults with world-class organizations such as Harvard University and Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) to help their members succeed at home. In keynote presentations, workshops, team events, and private consulting, Jim has helped hundreds of the top entrepreneurs and thought leaders around the world focus and implement where it really counts, at home. He is affectionately known as "Crazy Glue For Families." Jamie Sheils founded Florida’s only Waldorf-inspired public charter school and directed a Public Montessori Charter School. She has also developed and implemented programs in several other public and private schools.

When Jim and Jamie first met, they found themselves facing interesting challenges as a blended family. Suddenly, they had to contend with the everyday trials of disconnection and time scarcity. It was Family Board Meetings that bridged the gap, helping a new family connect, and helping the kids find sure footing on uncertain ground.

Now, through 18 Summers, Jim and Jamie reach families and organizations around the world, helping them discover the benefits of quality time and enduring relationships. In this episode, we talk about homeschooling, creative freedom, sex drive, and even (how to avoid!) "Dad bod."

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I recently read a book entitled Spirit Tech: The Brave New World of Consciousness Hacking and Enlightenment Engineering by Kate J. Stockly and Wesley J. Wildman. It was a thrilling read on the merging of biohacking technologies, spirituality, neurotheology, and much more. 

Technology now has the ability to modify and control the spiritual experience. This book is a journey through the high-tech aids for psychological growth that are changing the world while exploring safety, authenticity, and ethics.

Of course, technology is already helping to manage health, sleep, relationships, and finances, so it’s no surprise that technological aids for the spiritual journey would be the next frontier. From apps that help you pray or meditate, to cybernauts seeking the fast track, to nirvana through magnetic brain stimulation, this is the brink of the most transformative revolution in the practice of religion: an era in which the power of “spirit tech” can be harnessed to deepen your experience of the divine.

Spirit tech products are rapidly improving in sophistication and power, and ordinary people need a trustworthy guide. Through their research and insider access to the top innovators and early adopters, Kate Stockly and Wesley Wildman take you deep inside an evolving world with Spirit Tech. The book is the definitive guide to the fascinating world of innovations for personal transformation, spiritual growth, and pushing the boundaries of human nature. When you read Spirit Tech, you'll...

...find out how increasingly popular “wearables” work on your brain, promising a shortcut to transformative meditative states...

...meet the inventor of the “God Helmet,” who developed a tool to increase psychic skills and overcome fear, sadness, and anger...

...visit churches that use ayahuasca as their sacrament and explore the booming industry of psychedelic tourism...

...journey to a mansion in the heart of Silicon Valley where a group of scientists and entrepreneurs are working feverishly to bring brain-based spirit tech applications to the masses, and...

...discover a research team who achieved brain-to-brain communication between individuals thousands of miles apart, harnessing neurofeedback techniques to sync and share emotions among group members.

Kate Stockly is an academic researcher specializing in the scientific study of religion and women’s studies in religion. Kate’s first book, High On God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America (co-authored with James K. Wellman, Jr. and Katie Corcoran; Oxford 2020), looks closely at the affective and emotional dynamics animating evangelical megachurches. Spirit Tech: The Brave New World of Consciousness Hacking and Engineering Enlightenment is Kate's second book. Kate also analyzes gender dynamics in religion and spirituality from a bio-psycho-social perspective. Putting the critical humanities—especially feminist materialism and affect theory—into conversation with the biological sciences, she theorizes how gender and sex interact with spiritual and religious expression and experience.

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I first became familiar with the brilliant Dr. William Davis and his impressive body of work when I interviewed him for an episode about heart attacks way back in 2009.

Later, he joined me for a podcast about his book Wheat Belly, in which we discussed why you're not eating the same kind of wheat your ancestors ate, whether wheat bread is really better than white bread, if wheat is ever OK to eat and if so, when, and good substitutes and alternatives for wheat.

Today, Dr. William Davis is back to discuss his new book Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight. In Super Gut, Dr. Davis takes his research and findings a step further and shows that because of our highly processed diet, pesticides, and overuse of antibiotics, our guts are is now missing so many of the good bacteria required to be healthy. As a result, many of us have lost control over health, weight, mood, even behavior.

The ancient bacteria that keep our gut in alignment and our digestion easy have been dying off, replaced by harmful microbes that don’t serve to keep us physically healthy and mentally fit. With cutting-edge research, Dr. Davis has connected the dots between gut health and modern ailments and complaints. There are entire species of microbes that have disappeared, creating health issues that were uncommon one hundred, or even fifty, years ago. A major consequence is SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth), a silent and profound epidemic, which affects one out of three people and is responsible for an astounding range of human health conditions.

Super Gut shows how to eliminate bad bacteria and bring back the missing “good” bacteria with a four-week plan to reprogram your microbiome based on research and techniques that not only get to the root of many diseases but improve levels of oxytocin (the bonding/happy hormone), brain health, and promote anti-aging, weight loss, mental clarity, and more restful sleep. Super Gut explains the science clearly and includes more than forty recipes, a diet plan, and resources so you can pinpoint your gut issues, correct them, and maintain your long-term health and well-being. Dr. Davis provides solutions to health problems by addressing the microbiome, massively disrupted in modern people. He shows readers in his Super Gut book, for instance, how to restore important lost microbes lost such as Lactobacillus reuteri, restored by using a unique method of yogurt fermentation that smooths skin and reduces wrinkles, restores youthful muscle and strength, deepens sleep, reduces appetite and provides many other youth-preserving and anti-aging effects. In Super Gut, he provides additional do-it-yourself-at-home strategies for benefits such as improved mood, improved athletic performance, better sleep, heightened immunity, and improved body composition.

Dr. William Davis is also responsible for exposing the incredible nutritional blunder made by "official" health agencies: Eat more "healthy whole grains." The wheat of today is different from the wheat of 1960, thanks to extensive genetics manipulations introduced to increase yield-per-acre. Eliminating wheat yields results beyond everyone's expectations: substantial weight loss, correction of cholesterol abnormalities, relief from inflammatory diseases like arthritis, better mood, reduced blood sugar with many type 2 diabetics being freed of insulin and other drugs, all articulated through his Wheat Belly series of books. He is also a champion of individual self-directed health, as discussed in his Undoctoredbook.

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My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

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A lot of new science, research and testing protocols have emerged lately in the field of genetic testing, so I decided it was high time I interviewed a DNA expert on sleep genetic types, parenting, personality types, mood, behavior, cancer, the fountain of "youth" and so much more. 

My guest for this episode, Kashif Khan, is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of The DNA Company, where personalized medicine is being pioneered through unique insights into the human genome. With the largest study of its kind globally, The DNA Company has developed a functional approach to genomic interpretation overlaying environment, nutrition, and lifestyle on the genetic blueprint to create personalized and deterministic health outcomes.

Growing up in Vancouver, Canada in an immigrant household, Kashif developed an industrious entrepreneurial spirit from a young age. Prior to his tenure at The DNA Company, Kashif advised a number of high-growth start-ups in a variety of industries including luxury retail, technology, finance, fine arts, healthcare, tourism and real estate. He participated in over $300 million in revenue in his own retail business prior to launching consulting services to help others thrive.

As Kashif dived into the field of functional genomics as the CEO of The DNA Company, it was revealed that his neural wiring was actually genetically designed to be entrepreneurial. However, his genes also revealed a particular sensitivity to pollutants. This inspired The DNA Company to develop a custom nutrient supplement to enhance this suboptimal detoxification pathway, enabling Kashif’s body to deal with pollutants and chemicals, while reducing his risk of long-term illness.

Now seeing his health from a new lens Kashif dove further and started to see the genetic pathways that led to his own family’s challenges, and the opportunities to reverse chronic disease. He has since made it his mission to build The DNA Company into a business that has an impact and whose success is measured not in dollars earned, but in lives improved.

In this episode, you'll discover:

How Kashif got involved with The DNA Company

Kashif’s Genetic Playbook, the actionable steps to utilizing your Genetic code for informed daily life decisions.

Mood and behavior / How genes impact things like depression

Optimizing sleep/ sleep genetic types

Applying genetics to parenting and personalization

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Plus, we do some good old debunking on the old "carbs after the gym, bro", what ketone esters are, how they assist us in generating more substantial energy and there effect is has on our brain. The studies that have been condoned to monitor athlete's performance utilizing ketones, ketone esters as well as the effect when applied when a carbohydrate diet.

We'll touch a bit on what causes muscle cramps and how the "pickle juice" method really works with our neurochemistry more than it does anything else. Common belief is linked to dehydration and electro light deficiency and while that is true there is quite a bit more to it than just that. Today you'll get the real reason why cramps happen to athletes and what measures can me taken to start to prevent it. Diving even deeper into the concept you'll learn the 3 common "weakest links" within athletes and how to fix them.

You'll get my two cents on why I've tuned it down on plant medicine, what trend I am starting to see take place and what inevitable consequences I see unfolding for those that experiment with ignorance. Believe it or not - You're opening yourself up to a spiritual realm far beyond our human experience which should not be provoked with inexperienced travelers. Not to get it wrong with the positive benefits it does offer but to bring awareness and education to those whom may be dabbling too far down the rabbit hole.

Click here, or use the 'contact' button in the free Ben Greenfield Life app.

Prior to asking your question, do a search in the upper right-hand corner of this website for the keywords associated with your question. Many of the questions we receive have already been answered here at Ben Greenfield Life!

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My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

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A few weeks ago, a guy named Ryan "Birdman" Parrott contacted me.

In a nutshell, he said...

"My sniper partner in the SEAL Teams took his life 3 years ago and I am tired of it. I know for a fact that there are plenty of brain treatment centers around the country but the military, first responder communities’ leadership don’t seem to care about their health, nutrition and sleep, so we are going to work with physicians, sports physiologists, and mental health experts to develop a simplistic manual that will showcase: 1) turning the ignition on so that kids who are starting to get athletic can understand how to create a baseline of correct fitness and how to get back to homeostasis (this also goes for brand new military members and first responders because they don’t get taught human performance); 2) restarting the engine for the war fighter, career fire fighter and law enforcement, so that they can come out of their careers unfractured. This manual should and will discuss what to do on the flip side to reboot. I am not going to sit back and watch another war fighter take their own life because they are not being tended to after devoting everything that God has given to them to national security. I have run a successful non-profit for burn survivors called 'Sons of the Flag' for the past ten years and am now making this my number one focus to do my part...

...it's called The Human Performance Project...

...and I would love your advice on nutrition and supplementation as we begin this training and as we analyze our blood to give us all a better understanding of what it truly making us better. These are all war fighters on the team that will be training to pull this off and I am the youngest guy on the team, so we have our work cut out for us."

So I decided to get Ryan on the show so that you can be educated on how to truly optimize performance, especially when you need to be on the physical and mental cutting edge.

Ryan's Human Performance Project is designed to gain outcomes on human performance by testing supplements while training and looking deep into the DNA, physiology, and human spirit to create a docuseries along with a manual that supports all data-driven findings and proof of concept. Essentially pressing the reset button on a 20-year military veteran or first responder and starting the engine for the next generation to train, eat, sleep, diet, and live well.

Ryan “Birdman” Parrott, is an Author, Public Speaker, Former Navy SEAL, Patent Holder, Action Sports Athlete, and Founder of two non- profits benefitting Veterans and First Responders is originally from Detroit, Michigan. Birdman enlisted in the Navy after watching the Twin Towers fall on 9/11 and served eight years as a U.S. Navy SEAL attached to SEAL Team SEVEN, completing three combat tours to Iraq before being assigned to Advanced Training Command as an Instructor.

In 2005, while serving in Iraq, Birdman was riding atop a Humvee manning the gun turret in enemy territory, when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED), causing a detonation and throwing him from the Humvee. Birdman regained composure with his face and hands burned and witnessed his fellow team members suffer devastating burn and blast injuries. While Birdman’s burns were only first and second degree, his teammates suffered lifelong injuries.

In 2012, Birdman established Sons of the Flag to help burn survivors and their families find the help and medical attention they truly deserve. 

Now a sponsored athlete in the extreme sports arena, he has founded The Human Performance Project taking a deeper dive into health and wellness giving our next generation a better understanding on taking proper care of their bodies through physical, mental, emotional and spiritual guidance from world renowned experts in their fields.

More info on the Human Performance Project is here.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Ryan's personal journey to the present day, and how he got the name "Birdman"...

-Addressing a severely underserved segment of combat-sustained injuries through Sons of the Flag...

-The Human Performance Project: what it is and who it serves...

-The first 3 things someone should do when they want to take control of their health and fitness...

-The first thing to do when you realize you're broken physically, spiritually and emotionally...

-How one will feel when they attempt a hard-core cleanse...

-Improving the overall sleep experience...

-The system in the body that needs the most attention, and how to address it...

-To what extent will improving your physical game improve your mental game?...

-And much more!

Resources from this episode:

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https://bengreenfieldlife.com/plantmed2

Last week, in this already somewhat controversial article, I gave you a thorough explanation and argument behind my newest conviction that when it comes to the ever-expanding and increasingly popular world of plant medicines, not only do the "cons outweigh the pros," but when you're partaking of these type of compounds and chemicals that significantly alter your state of consciousness (particularly in a recreational setting), you are opening yourself up to influence from a spiritual world that threatens to land you in a very dark place indeed.

In other words, when it comes to plant medicines, we aren't just talking about the equivalent of drinking too much coffee or having a bit too much pre-workout kratom or chomping on an extra piece of nicotine gum or socially lubricating an evening with an extra glass of wine. Instead, substances such as LSD, psilocybin, peyote, mescaline, or any other highly effective and typically hallucinogenic or psychedelic consciousness-altering compound that I named in Part 1 have great potential to open you up to a deep, dark, spiritual world in which there is a battle for your very soul.

So if you didn't yet read Part 1, please, please do.

Of course, there are several unanswered questions and considerations that I need to address here in Part 2, namely: microdosing with plant medicines, the "responsible" use of marijuana, the bigger, glaring issue that many of these types of vices bring up, and a special project I'll be working on that I'd like to invite you to be a part of.

So, let's dive in.

In this episode, you'll hear:

-What about microdosing?...06:45

-What about marijuana?...15:30

-The "bigger issue"...26:00

-Summary, and what comes next: "Viceless"...35:02

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The entire text and links to all resources mentioned in today's episode can be found at https://bengreenfieldlife.com/plantmedpart2

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

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Dr. Jay Wiles, my guest on today's show, is no stranger to the Ben Greenfield Life podcast, as you've heard him and Ben cohost the Q&A episodes since 2019. What you may not know about Dr. Wiles is that he is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Hanu Health. Jay is an international speaker, scientist, clinician, influencer, and subject-matter expert and authority on the interconnection between the human stress response and health performance/optimization. A clinical health and performance psychologist with board certification in heart rate variability biofeedback and peripheral biofeedback, he works as a leading consultant in psychophysiology to health influencers, professional athletes and teams, executives, and high performers. Jay has pioneered new and innovative means of using heart rate variability (HRV) and respiratory training as both diagnostic indicators of the dynamic nature of the human stress response, alongside therapeutic tools for regulating and conditioning this response for peak human performance.

Dr. Wiles has an extensive history of working with top-performing athletes in the PGA, LPGA, MLS, MLB, ATP, and WTA. His consulting firm, Thrive Wellness and Performance, has held contracts with leading biotechnology and health technology organizations where he has engaged in research, development of therapeutics, and development of behavioral retention programs.

Dr. Wiles has also hosted the Hanu Health Podcast since October 2021.

Code: BEN40 will gives followers 40% off retail of Hanu.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-What does "Hanu" mean?...

-Jay's personal journey to becoming an expert in HRV...

-How is the Hanu wearable different from other devices that track HRV?... 

-What causes HRV to vary from day to day, even if stress levels don't appear to vary...

-The heart rate strap, and what the Hanu wearable might look like in the future...

-About the Resonance Frequency Assessment...

-Resonance breathing and box breathing contrasted...

-What is a BOLT score and why is it important...

-When a high HRV is not necessarily a good thing...

-Rapid fire questions on HRV...

-And much more...

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On June 1, 2022, I reached one of the most important conclusions and subsequently made one of the most important decisions of my life.

I decided to completely stop using, endorsing, encouraging, extolling, promoting, praising, or otherwise having any involvement with so-called "plant medicines."

Now, before you roll your eyes and stop reading because perhaps you were never interested in plant medicines in the first place, or you think I must have had some kind of a "bad trip" on shrooms, or you're convinced that plant medicines play a vastly important role in your own personal, spiritual, or professional development and there's no way you'd ever come to the same conclusion I recently have...

...I beg of you: please stick with me here.

Please hear me out.

I have some very important things to say that I think the world desperately needs to hear right now. After a great deal of studying up on the topic (and, over the past decade, experimenting with nearly every plant medicine substance known to humankind) I strongly feel that it is now my responsibility and God-given calling to share my newest thoughts with you on this matter. Frankly, there is absolutely no way I want to go to the grave without speaking my mind on this topic.

And yes - I realize that a few of you might be cringing because, deep down inside, you suspect that I'm about to expose the "noble and laudable" excuse of "healing yourself" with plant medicines that a shockingly high number of health enthusiasts and spiritual warriors and shaman-bro's and sis's engage in on a frequent basis...

...as just an excuse to get high and do drugs without feeling like an addict.

You'd be right if that's your suspicion.

Admittedly, I'm partially responsible for fueling this entire movement.

I've podcasted and written multiple times on the benefits of journeying with plant medicines.

I've heavily promoted microdosing with plant medicines for focus, creativity, productivity, and social outings.

I've equated cannabis and shrooms with coffee and wine (trust me, they're a bit different).

I own multiple investments (several of which I'll be exiting, by the way) in ketamine clinics, cannabis companies, and psilocybin research laboratories.

I've encouraged couples—in the same way that my wife and I have done—to consider compounds like sassafras, MDMA, ketamine, lysergamides, and beyond for enhancing sex or having highly bonding weekend getaways.

Perhaps most interestingly, I have derived a great deal of benefit and personal insight and relationship enhancement and creative ideas from "journeying" with plant medicine, which made what I am about to share with you very difficult to write. Frankly, I thought because all the fruits of my use of plant medicines were nothing but good, that the ends justified the means.

But I was wrong.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

I am sorry.

I am ashamed.

I have severely missed the mark.

I was playing with fire, and you might be too. 

And I am about to tell you why.

Read the entire article at https://bengreenfieldlife.com/plantmedpart1

In this episode, you'll hear:

-Plant medicines defined...10:11

-Why I am done with plant medicines...17:35

-The Bible: Obstacle to the evolution...32:08

-The horrific effects of drug abuse...37:30

-I was deceived and I was playing with fire...42:35

-Freedom from bondage...46:45

-Summary of Part 1...52:25

Episode sponsors:

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-Inside Tracker

-Chili Technologies

-Kion Aminos

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/plantmed1

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

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This light-sound stimulation machine called the BrainTap is my latest infatuation. Ever since the CEO gave me a trial unit at a health conference this past Spring, I've literally been using it every day for the past four months, and it has been a huge game changer for rapid sleep onset, napping, meditation, airplane/car rides, fast-tracked meditation and much more.

"BrainTapping" is a quick and easy way to optimize your brain’s peak potential—anytime, anywhere. Backed by neuroscience and research, BrainTap is proven to help people who experience high stress, difficulty sleeping, low energy, and other lifestyle challenges. BrainTap restores your ability, balance and energy. BrainTap breaks through the overwhelm and makes it possible for you to thrive in overdrive. Instead of feeling exhausted and disheartened, you have a fit and resilient brain with clear, focused thinking, and the confidence to make better choices.

The BrainTap device uses light and sound stimulation to create a symphony of brainwave activity, a feeling of calm focus that’s just right for learning and productivity. Each session is designed with brainwave balance in mind. BrainTap’s exclusive neuro-algorithms gently and naturally guide your brain through a broad range of brainwave patterns, instead of just the Alpha state. The result is a complete spectrum of brainwave activity.

In addition to the sonic effect in the audio-sessions, the BrainTap Headset delivers gentle light pulses that travel through the ear meridians and the retina, sending direct signals to the brain and guiding you into extraordinary brain states that would otherwise take years of disciplined effort to achieve. By listening to the varied frequencies and holographic music in BrainTap’s unique audio programs, you can enjoy a healthy and balanced state of brain fitness.

My guest on this podcast is Dr. Patrick Porter.

Quick Facts About Patrick:

• Award-winning author, educator, researcher, entrepreneur, and speaker
• Lifetime Achievement Award (2020) - Interdisciplinary Association of Functional Neurosciences and Rehabilitation (IAFNR)
• Dean of mind-based studies at the International Quantum University of Integrative Medicine
• SleepRX program voted best sleep application of the year by Health Magazine
• Featured in The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek
• TV and radio personality for 10 years
• Created more than 1200 personal development programs
• Successfully marketed more than 3 million products worldwide

In late 2020, Patrick was the honored recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Interdisciplinary Association of Functional Neurosciences and Rehabilitation (IAFNR), and for good reason. Over a career spanning more than three decades, Dr. Porter has been on the cutting edge of brainwave entrainment technology. He was co-developer of the first personal light & sound brain training machine, voted “Best New Gadget of the Year” at the 1989 Consumer Electronics Show and later developed one of the largest and most popular self-help franchises. He’s since become a highly sought-after expert within the neuroscience and personal improvement industries.

Dr. Porter is widely recognized as an award-winning author, educator, consultant, researcher, entrepreneur, and speaker. His newest brain-training platform, BrainTap, is distinctively designed to activate the brain’s neuroplasticity. The BrainTap headset uses light & sound technology in combination with Dr. Porter’s proprietary guided visualization audio-sessions to help people achieve brain fitness, overcome stress, lose weight, stop smoking, manage pain, accelerate learning, enjoy superb sleep and make any number of lifestyle improvements.

Additionally, he offers health providers a turnkey system for helping clients achieve better neurological performance and brain fitness. Dr. Porter is also the dean of mind-based studies at the International Quantum University of Integrative Medicine (IQUIM). Dr. Porter’s successes have been featured in NPR, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, People, Entrepreneur, and INC, as well as ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and the Discovery Channel. His SleepRX program was voted the best sleep app of the year by Health Magazine.

He is the author of the award-winning bestseller, Awaken the Genius, Mind Technology for the 21st Century, which was awarded “Best How-To Book of 1994” by the North American Book Dealers Exchange. Awaken the Genius is translated into four languages and more than 150,000 copies have sold globally. He also authored Discover the Language of the Mind and Thrive In Overdrive, How to Navigate Your Overloaded Lifestyle, among others. Dr. Porter’s entertaining speeches and seminars deliver the real life, nuts ‘n bolts concepts he used to turn his business ventures into multi-million dollar enterprises.

For ten years, Dr. Porter hosted his own show on WNIS radio in Norfolk, Virginia. Previously, he was the host of a Phoenix television show. As an independent consultant, he wrote Hidden Solutions and Awaken the Genius programs for the State of Arizona. He also created Mind-Over-Cancer, a guided visualization program used in medical facilities to assist patients receiving cancer treatment to better manage stress and side effects.

Dr. Porter has produced an arsenal of over 1200 audio-recorded motivational programs and narrated visualization sessions and has sold more than 3 million books and recordings worldwide, all uniquely designed to empower humanity. He earned his doctorate degree from Louisiana Baptist University in 1992 in Psychology of Christian Counseling and later became a licensed trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Patrick's history of linguistic programming...

-The psychology behind the voice options in the Brain Tap...

-The founding story of the Brain Tap...

-Nuts and bolts of how the Brain Tap is affecting the brain...

-How binaural beats are used in the Brain Tap...

-Why the ear piece produces light...

-Why blue light in the Brain Tap does not affect sleep deleteriously...

-Isochronic tones explained...

-How music is chosen and utilized in the Brain Tap...

-Entrainment and teaching the body to heal itself...

-Precautions using the Brain Tap...

-Using the Brain Tap with plant medicines and other modalities...

-About the libraries available on the Brain Tap...

-Customizing a personal routine into a Brain Tap experience...

Episode sponsors:

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My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

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Today's episode is Part 2 of my talk at the Health Optimisation Summit, recently held in London by noted UK biohacker and media personality Tim Gray.

The Health Optimisation Summit brings together the best from all the key diets, and everything in the health, wellbeing, medical, nutrition, biohacking, and fitness worlds, with the view not to push one mindset, but to incorporate them all with the sole goal of making people healthier–using whichever mindset or 'diet' is best for the individual.

When I interviewed Tim Gray recently, on the podcast episode "How UK’s Leading Biohacker Eats, Drinks, & Optimizes His Life: An Interview With Tim Gray," I got a sneak peek into what his life looks like, from his fitness and nutrition routines to his sexiest biohacks.

At this year's Summit, Tim turned the tables and actually asked me to present on "A Day in the Life of Ben Greenfield." At first, I thought I'd be struggling to fill the time slot with just my "average day," but then as I thought about all the hacks, routines, and rituals I do throughout my days that are now more or less automatic for me but likely something you'll be quite interested in, I realized it might not be quite as simple as it sounds!

In this episode, we pick up where we left off last time, and go on to talk about the importance of family time at the end of the day, finishing the day with purpose, and we even had time left at the end to answer a few questions from members of the audience.

Remember, if you haven't yet, I highly recommend you listen to Part 1 of this series, either before or after this episode!

In this episode, you'll discover:

-How Ben makes the most of the mid-day siesta...

-Ben's favorite workouts throughout the day...

-Building a family legacy...

-Eating practices at the end of the day...

-Bedtime rituals...

-And much more!

Episode sponsors:

-Timeline Nutrition

-Organifi Red Juice

-Kion Aminos

-Willo

-Nootopia

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Here, for your itching ears and supremely curious heart and mind, comes Part 1 of my talk at the Health Optimisation Summit, recently held in London by my friend and podcast guest, Tim Gray.

The Health Optimisation Summit is Europe’s largest health conference, showcasing the best speakers from the health, biohacking, fitness, longevity, nutrition, functional, and preventative medicine spaces (including yours truly) in order to provide people with the knowledge, tools, and resources to take their own health and performance to the next level.

The UK's leading biohacker, Tim Gray is known for his detailed tracking of more than 35+ biomarkers per day, is frequently in the mainstream media regarding practical, trackable, and immediately apply-able health hacks, and is featured on over 30 podcasts a year. As a psychology specialist and a successful businessman, Tim founded and invested in multiple 6-figure businesses, including digital marketing agencies and London’s first private Hyperbaric Oxygen Clinic.

After years spent self-healing his body from chronic health conditions through biohacking alone, Tim Gray embarked on a mission to educate and empower the masses. Recently, I spoke to Tim about his history, his routines, the Health Optimisation Summit, and plenty more, in a special two-part podcast episode that included an interview and then a follow-up solosode by Tim ("How UK’s Leading Biohacker Eats, Drinks, & Optimizes His Life: An Interview With Tim Gray").

For this year's Summit, Tim actually asked me to present on "A Day in the Life of Ben Greenfield." At first, I thought I'd be struggling to fill the time slot with just my "average day," but then as I thought about all the hacks, routines, and rituals I do throughout my days that are now more or less automatic for me but likely something you'll be quite interested in, I realized it might not be quite as simple as it sounds!

In fact, like I needed to do with Tim's podcast, I had to split my talk up and finish presenting about a "typical" day in Part 2, which is the next episode you'll see released on the podcast feed. You can also go here to get all of the resources from my talk at the Summit.

Enjoy!

In this episode, you'll discover:

-Look at the body as a battery...

-Ben's morning routine...

-Family time in the morning and the morning smoothie...

-How Ben optimizes his workspace...

-Midday routines and rituals...

-Audience question: "What does your wife do?"...

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Episode sponsors:

-Essentia Mattresses

-Inside Tracker

-Chili Technologies

-Kion Aminos

BenGreenfieldLife.com/hospodcast1

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/minimalist

I've been interviewed a few times on the outstanding Minimalists podcast with Joshua Millburn and his partner in crime Ryan Nicodemus, who together founded The Minimalists. This time it was I who put one of them on the hot seat for my podcast, and was able to speak with Joshua about his journey into the minimalism mindset, how we sometimes go about it the wrong way, the four stages of hoarding, and much more.

At first glance, people might think the point of minimalism is only to get rid of material possessions: Eliminating. Jettisoning. Extracting. Detaching. Decluttering. Paring down. Letting go. But that’s a mistake.

True, removing the excess is an important part of the recipe—but it’s just one ingredient. If we’re concerned solely with the stuff, we’re missing the larger point.

Minimalists don’t focus on having less, less, less. We focus on making room for more: more time, more peace, more creativity, more experiences, more contribution, more contentment, more freedom. Clearing the clutter frees up the space.

Minimalism is the thing that gets us past the things so we can make room for life’s important things—which aren’t thingsat all.

In this interview with Joshua Millburn, you'll discover:

-Publishing forays in the realm of minimalism...

-The four stages of hoarding, and which stage you're likely at...

-The "lightbulb" moment when Joshua embraced minimalism...

-Starting points into the realm of Minimalism...

-Ben and Josh discuss a minimalist diet...

-Minimalist exercise and workouts...

-Why being busy doesn't make you important, it just makes you busy...

-The seven essential relationships in our lives to balance before focusing on relationships with other people...

-How social minimalism promotes a life of productivity and creation...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Thrive Market

-Organifi Green Juice

-HigherDOSE

-Willo

-BGL Careers

-Kion Aminos

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/minimalist

I have been supplementing with amino acids a lot lately.

And so have many of you, as the Aminos supplement is easily the best-selling product over at Kion, my supplements company that I and Angelo Keely began in 2017. In fact, Angelo and I talked about amino acids, along with our then new protein powder on the podcast back in November of 2021. And since I've been using Kion Aminos to such great effect lately, I wanted to share what we talked about last year, because I know so many people have begun listening to the show since then.

So enjoy!

Angelo Keely is the co-founder and CEO of Kion, an active lifestyle, supplement, and functional food company dedicated to helping people fully experience a joyful, active life by providing pure, energy-enhancing solutions. Angelo has a truly diverse and unique background having put himself through college as a professional musician—beatboxing, rapping, and drumming.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How Angelo Keely has become a world-renowned expert on protein...

-How Angelo Keely and his health transformation caused a hyper-focus on protein and amino acids...

-Overview of the different types of amino acids...

-Creatine as an amino acid...

-The appropriate amount of protein and aminos to intake...

-The ranking of the quality of animal-based protein sources...

-The good and bad when it comes to protein powders...

-The long history of whey protein...

-How to get a protein powder that doesn't taste like ash...

Episode sponsors:

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Nootopia

-Ketone IQ by HVMN

-Inside Tracker

-Kion Aminos

Do you have questions, thoughts, or feedback for Angelo Keely or me? Leave your comments below and one of us will reply!

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

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Today's episode is the second of three "walk and talk" podcasts I recorded while attending and speaking at the Health Optimisation Summit in London in May 2022. This time I was put on the hot seat by a leading UK biohacking expert named Lauren Vaknine. During our chat, we discussed faith, family, how females approach biohacking and much more. Enjoy!

Meet Lauren Vaknine:

Lauren Vaknine is a holistic health and life coach, wellness educator, speaker and host of the popular Reconditioned Podcast. As a leading voice in wellness in the UK, Lauren uses the experience and knowledge she gained during her 3-decade long journey from severe disability to complete wellness, to help women heal and transform their lives.

She does this by using a range of holistic healing arts in a unique, whole-person approach. This approach enables Lauren to take her clients on a journey from existing, to living a life of purpose, intention, self-mastery and fulfilment. You can find Lauren on Instagram @laurenvaknine, her podcast, Reconditioned with Lauren Vaknine as well as her website laurenvakninecoaching.com and her blog laurenvaknine.co.uk

In this episode, you'll discover:

-The "softer side" of biohacking and life optimization...

-Ben's big "why" for doing what he does...

-Ben's morning routine while traveling...

-Jet lag management tips...

-Ben's favorite biohacking devices and gadgets...

-Does Ben's wife Jessa share his enthusiasm for biohacking and self-optimization?...

-Ben's education philosophy and strategy for his children...

-A sneak peak of Ben's new parenting book...

-When not to engage in fasting, ice baths, sauna...

-Ben's Christian hedonism philosophy...

-Lauren's "lightning round" questions for Ben...

-And much more...

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Episode sponsors:

-Organifi Apple Green Juice

-Seed Daily Synbiotic

-Ben Greenfield Life Careers

-Joy Mode

-Willo

-Kion Aminos

Got a question for Lauren or myself? Leave a comment below, and one of us will reply!

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

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When I first received the book The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively by my guest on today's show, Todd Kashdan, I thought it was going to be some fringe rebel handbook or something like TheAlchemist's Cookbook, or a title that was meant to incite riots and violence.

I was dead wrong.

Instead, this book is a research-based toolbox for anyone who wants to create a world with more justice, creativity, and courage. I eventually wound up interviewing Todd for the episode "The Art Of Insubordination: How To Dissent And Defy Effectively, With Todd Kashdan."

But now, Todd is back—and he's back specifically to focus on content that will be featured in my upcoming book Boundless Parenting, which will showcase Todd and 30+ additional amazing parents from around the globe sharing their deep wisdom and advice so that you can be a better parent and better human.

Look for that new parenting book to launch in the winter of 2022 and click here to stay updated on the book release.

In the meantime, if you want to know how to raise kids who swim upstream, who aren't sheeple, and who can gracefully decline to participate hook, line, and sinker in the anemic social standards of modern society, you'll want to tune in.

In this episode, you'll discover:

-Todd shares about his children, and what he's most proud about them...

-How to train children in the skill of divergent thinking...

-Resources Todd uses to raise his daughters...

-How to approach relying on others for children's development...

-Things Todd learned while writing his book he's passing on to his children...

-Reconciling differing parenting styles when mom and dad live under different roofs...

-Exposing children to societal taboos in an environment the parent can control...

-How to carve out one on one time with children...

-Final questions for Todd...

-The message for parents Todd would put on a billboard...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Nootopia

-Butcher Box

-HigherDOSE

-Chili Technologies

-Kion Aminos

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/impactfulkids

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Welcome to the show. Today's episode is with biohacker and podcaster Steve Stavs from South Africa, whom I met at the Health Optimisation Summit held in the latter part of May 2022.

Steve Stavs’ philosophy is one of researching to reveal. He has spent his life immersing himself in knowledge and then turning these insights into actionable strategies designed to enhance the human state.

He is a successful entrepreneur, leadership coach, international lecturer, and holistic practitioner. Steve continues to run his wellness practice Made To Thrive, which he launched 20 years ago. He has aided many to reach their highest potential in all aspects of their lives and this has inspired him to take both his message and his mission to a wider audience. (You can save 15% on coaching and consulting with code BEN15 along with 5% off products in the shop with code BEN5.)

Steve draws on his background in Western Medical Practices and integrates the best of this knowledge with the profound teachings of Ancestral Living and Chinese Medicine. Thousands of patients can testify to the effectiveness of this comprehensive approach, which combines an understanding of ancient traditional cultures while including the most researched science in biochemistry, physiology, psychology, and nutrition.

An avid athlete, Steve is dedicated to exploring the boundaries of physical ability and pushing his body to its optimal performance. He is a Green Number Comrades runner and one of his ultimate goals is to run the Comrades Marathon at the age of 100. Steve supports the Community of the Hope Risen Foundation–a nonprofit organization founded by Tabitha and Rob Lage, who are passionate about ensuring humans have absolute freedom to live out their true purpose, know their why, and live according to this ethos.

Hope Risen has a vision to spread Hope, Love, and Justice in the quest to end modern-day slavery and exploitation. They are passionate about helping survivors of human trafficking shine again. The foundation runs a number of prevention and awareness initiatives alongside direct interventions to rescue, restore and reintegrate women, men, and children who have been exploited.

Steve asked me if he could interview me for his podcast. I told him he could, but only if he can keep up with me on one of my aerobically and intellectually challenging "walk & talk" podcasts.

"Not a problem," replied Steve, and I believed him—as he is also the founder of the Comrades Marathon, an annual 56-mile race that builds community (and some serious physical resilience) among members of his community in S. Africa. So Steve can take some steps!

And thus we took to the backstreets and parks of London during some free time from the summit and discussed many topics, such as:

• Fear vs. purpose-based motivation
• The African word for "community" and how it differs from our conception in the West
• The lost art of storytelling
• Why the "free" biohacks are just as important as the expensive gadgets found at your favorite conference
• And more...

I enjoyed our conversation so much that I wanted to share it on my podcast feed as well. So I hope you enjoy it (and you'll hear that Steve was able to keep up with me just fine!).

In this episode, you'll discover:

-Steve describes the Comrades Marathon...

-Fear vs. purpose based motivation for human action...

-Ubuntu and the spirit of community...

-An environment that facilitates success...

-Storytelling as a means of building community...

-Arts and music as a means of healing...

-Gathering and preparing food that sustains community...

-Putting biohacking in its place regarding our quality of life...

-The most important biohacking metrics when it comes to stress and anxiety...

-The importance of having a health coach...

-Embracing suffering to bring joy...

-Ben Greenfield's message of hope for the future...

-And much more...

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Episode sponsors:

-Levels Health

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Kion Aminos

-Timeline Nutrition

-Inside Tracker

-Ben Greenfield Coaching

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/madetothrive

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

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There's a revolution on the horizon...

...led by a collective of people who are willing to speak up for what they believe in. I call them heroes.

Today, more than ever, the world needs heroes. Now, I'm not talking about Rambo- or Terminator-type heroes. I'm talking about heroes who, like the great hero Jesus Christ, have the meekness and humility of a gentle lamb and the courage and ferocity of a mighty lion. We need heroes who can admit when they're wrong, and who tend lovingly to the garden of their spirit and their soul.

Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to a large audience about why it's imperative to surround ourselves with a community of individuals who know how to surrender, sacrifice, and serve. I was asked to give a keynote speech at Paleo f(x), the world's premier wellness event, covering the 7 pillars of health–physical, mental, emotional, relational, spiritual, financial, tribal, (and more!)–for optimizing your health, expanding your mind, and reclaiming your freedom. Over three days, there were 100+ speakers and 8,000+ attendees. It's one of the most fun, inspiring, and educational events I attend all year long. From the stellar speakers to the amazing networking, to the killer parties and food, nothing like it exists, period.

I could have spoken on any topic related to biohacks, gear, and fitness—as you know, I've spent plenty of time on those subjects in the past. What I felt called to reflect on, though, was this concept of heroism and the Hero's Journey. The theme of this year's Paleo f(x) was Primal Uprising, which felt like the perfect forum to delve into something a little more important. My inspiration for the speech was the article The Humility Of The Hero: A Call To Action (& 4 Ways To Be The Hero The World Needs Right Now).

It's scary crossing over from your ordinary world, but nothing can replace the feeling of when you reach deep down and speak up for what you believe in. Here, I share the entire keynote speech from Paleo f(x), during which I talk about the Hero's Journey, overcoming addictions, the importance of serving others, and much more. I hope you find it inspirational.

In this episode, you'll discover:

-Why this generation needs heroes...

-The Hero's Journey defined...

-Why we're wired to embrace the Hero's Journey...

-Surrender your attachments and addictions...

-Why a real hero often defies the romanticized stereotypes...

-Service is the foundation of the hero's journey...

-Put on your spiritual armor...

-What to do when you feel the call to the Hero's Journey...

-How do you identify your mission and purpose in life?...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Vuori

-Organifi Gold

-Magnesium Breakthrough

-Willo

-Kion Aminos

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bengreenfieldlife.com/willo - code BEN20 for $20 off Reservation Fee

Samuel Bertram is the CEO and co-founder of OnePointOne, an AgTech startup in the Bay Area that has developed the most sophisticated indoor farming technology in the world.

Born in 1993, Samuel grew up with his brother, John (co-founder and CTO of OnePointOne) in Wheelers Hill, Victoria, Australia. Samuel (and John) came to the United States to play collegiate tennis in 2011. Samuel captained his Division 1 Tennis team at Santa Clara University and graduated in 2016 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and in 2018 with an M.S. in Robotics and Mechatronics. While at Santa Clara, Samuel was involved in the creation of an autonomous marine vessel as well an autonomous omnidirectional robot. Samuel’s Master’s Capstone Project was the origin of OnePointOne’s technology.

Samuel and John founded OnePointOne, Inc. in July of 2017 with a mission to nourish the 1.1 billion people that began this millennium hungry. Since then, Samuel has raised over $60M from notable investors such as Fred Luddy, Novak Djokovic, and HRH Khaled bin Alwaleed. With that funding, the incredible team at OnePointOne has built the most advanced vertical farming technology on the market (according to Bain & Company). OnePointOne, Inc. employs a completely unique combination of aeroponics, automation, and AI, and stands apart in the field of indoor farming in terms of productivity, resource efficiency, and data capabilities.

OnePointOne’s Cultivation Chambers (CCs) are two-story tall, fully-enclosed cubes that grow a wide variety of berries, flowers, root crops, and leafy greens. Their fleet of robots manages the facility’s operations, which include: plant movement, plant inspection, cleaning, light movement, and more. OnePointOne plans to build hundreds of these CCs throughout the world to combat major crises in health, nutrition, and medicine. OnePointOne focuses on robotics and automation, agricultural technology, plant-based food and medicine, digital cities, and the Human condition.

Recently, OnePointOne launched "Willo", which is the future of personalized nutrition. Willo grows the best tasting produce on the planet. Members discover how complex, robust, and delicious produce can be. And their greens are built to last. With Willo, you can guarantee that your produce will last 2-4 times longer than what you would find at a conventional grocery store. Gone are the days of throwing out expensive greens that spoil just a few days after buying with them.

Everything Willo grows begins exclusively with a non-GMO seed, with each plant receiving the perfect mixture of elements to maximize taste and nutrient density. By providing the ideal composition of elements for each crop, they can grow exceptional produce in significantly less time while amplifying the plant’s natural ability to fuel and heal you.

Willo's technology virtually eliminates the environmental impact of agriculture. Designed with sustainability in mind, Willo’s crops are grown in a 100% controlled environment. This means that every single farming element is meticulously cared for, including the seeds, light, water, nutrients and air, resulting in the most pristine produce on the market. Their farms can grow anywhere on the planet all year round.

Imagine the most perfect tomato you’ve ever eaten, grown in the dead of winter and delivered to your doorstep mere days after it’s been harvested. Remember the taste of that fresh lemon basil you had on that trip to Thailand, and every other noodle dish has paled by comparison since—how would you like a fresh supply always in your kitchen? Picture a super kale that delivers an amazing supply of 4 vitamins and minerals in a single serving and tastes unbelievably delicious while doing it. And that’s just the beginning.

During this discussion, you'll discover:

-Sam's journey into the health and fitness field...

-Discussing wholesome parenting techniques...

-How Sam developed an interest in helping people through better nutrition...

-The moment Sam opened his heart to the betterment of humanity...

-The essential elements of the Willo brand...

-Aeroponics and AI farming...

-How an app can allow you to personalize your nutrition...

-How the Willo differs from other vertical farming systems...

-What's the carbon footprint of Willo...

-The future of vertical farming...

-And much more...

-And much more!...

Upcoming Events:

• Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldfitness.com/calendar

Resources from this episode:

Willo Farm - code BEN20 will give you 20% off the reservation fee

Episode sponsors:

-JOOVV

-Water and Wellness

-Kion Aminos

-Butcher Box

-Inside Tracker

bengreenfieldlife.com/willopodcast

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

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Katie Wells, CTNC, MCHC, Founder and CEO of WellnessMama.com and Wellnesse.com. Her ideas related to parenting are steeped in practical experience and deep wisdom, and will be featured in my upcoming book Boundless Parenting, which will showcase Katie and 30+ additional amazing parents from around the globe who are sharing their deep wisdom and advice so that you can be a better parent and better human.

Look for that new parenting book to launch in Winter of 2022 and click here to stay updated for the book release.

So who is Katie, exactly?

A mom of six with a background in journalism, Katie took health into her own hands and started researching to find answers to her health struggles. Her research turned into a blog and podcast, and she’s now written over 1,500 blog posts, three books, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in health and wellness. When she’s not reading medical journals, creating new recipes, or recording podcasts, you can find her somewhere outside in the sun with her husband (who she met walking across the country) and kids or undertaking some DIY remodeling project. Obligatory additional unrelated randomness: doula, speed-reader, hates bananas, loves baseball, scuba-diver, INTJ, highly experienced in answering the question, “why.”

In this episode, you'll discover:

-Katie describes her children, and why she's proud of them...

-Elements of Katie's parenting style that are unique...

-Indispensable resources for Katie's parenting approach...

-Most important rituals and routines for Katie's family...

-Katie's parenting mentors...

-What Katie teaches her children about raising their own children...

-Katie's philosophy on educating her kids...

-What Katie wishes she had known before becoming a parent...

-Dealing with "imposter syndrome" as a parent...

-Mentoring children without living vicariously through them...

-What Katie would change as a parent if she could do it again...

-Differing from the spouse on parenting principles and techniques...

-Balancing parenting responsibilities with business and self-care...

-Teaching children how to use social media and technology responsibly...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Essentia Mattresses

-Inside Tracker

-Kion Aminos

-HigherDOSE

-Ketone IQ by HVMN

In this episode, you'll discover:

-The panelists share views on detoxification...

-Subtle symptoms of an overtoxified person...

-The best way to remineralize the body...

-Recommendations for quality sleep and recovery while you sleep...

-Liver sauce to detox...

-Detox options for pregnant and breastfeeding women...

-Thoughts on swimming in chlorinated pools...

-Detox strategies for children...

-Parasympathetic/sympathetic balance...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Therabody

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Organifi Red Juice

-Nootopia

-Ice Barrel

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/kyleandben

My friend Kyle Kingsbury is the host of the Kyle Kingsbury Podcast and a Master Coach for the Fit For Service app.

Through his podcast and Fit For Service, Kyle teaches people how to enhance their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual practices.

Kyle is a former football player (Arizona State) and mixed martial artist who fought professionally for eight years (UFC six years). While fighting at the highest level he became fascinated with all things diet, performance, and recovery related. Since retiring, Kyle's focus has shifted to learning more about longevity, plant medicines, and inner peace.

The Fit For Service app is a place to learn, be inspired, transform, and connect with other people. The guiding principle is simple: practice vulnerability and serve yourself by serving others. The app is a platform for discussion groups, houses a library of content unavailable to the public, and provides members with access to guided meditations and breathwork, binaural beats, ecstatic dance playlists, and other exclusive media. As a Master Coach, Kyle offers unique digital knowledge and support to members.

Kyle Kingsbury has previously appeared on the podcast in the following episodes:

• Biohacked Superfood Smoothies, Healing Wounds Faster, Advanced Hypoxic Training Tactics, Hormesis & More With Kyle Kingsbury.
• Smart Drugs, Nootropics, Microdosing With Psychedelics, Enhancing Deep Sleep, Rites Of Passage & Much More With Kyle Kingsbury Of Onnit.

Recently, Kyle and I had a great chat in Austin, Texas about social media, cultivating a positive relationship with the earth, structured water, parenting, and much more.

In this conversation with Kyle Kingsbury, you'll discover:

-Ben and Kyle's favorite travel spots...

-Addictions and the dark side of social media...

-Why Kyle felt compelled to form an in-person educational farm...

-Exotic game and personal sovereignty...

-Why Ben is a fan of structured water...

-Ben's recent content production tear...

-Important takeaways from Ben's parenting book...

-What we really need to make America great again...

-How much of the Book of Revelation has actually taken place?...

-How to leave a lasting legacy beyond your life...

-Regrets held by Ben from his life adventures...

-And much more...

Upcoming events:

-Peptides Summit

-Health Optimization Summit:

Episode sponsors:

-JOOVV

-Ice Barrel

-Hapbee

-Kion Aminos

-Inside Tracker

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/kyleandben

Episode sponsors:

-Timeline Nutrition

-Joy Mode

-Thrive Market

-Organifi Apple Green Juice

-Clearlight Saunas

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My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

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Dr. John Lieurance is a Naturopathic Physician & Chiropractic Neurologist who has been in private practice in Florida for 25 years. He is the chief scientific advisor of both Glutagenic.com™ as well as Advanced Biome Corp™. He heads up Advanced Rejuvenation, a multi-disciplinary clinic, with a focus on Treating Chronic Diseases, Regenerative Medicine, Functional Neurology, Functional Medicine & Stem Cell Research.

He has spent most of his career focused on finding solutions for Hearing Loss, Balance Disorders, Tinnitus, DegenerAtive Neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s & Alzheimer, Autoimmune Disease, Chronic Lyme, CIRS & Mold Illness. After suffering from Chronic Lyme & Mold Illness many years himself, he also works with many cases seeing the same success he has had to recover to regain a normal life, free from the chronic inflammation and pain associated with those disorders.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-The biohacks in Ben's home John loves...

-How John became involved in the world of biohacking and natural medicine...

-Why suppositories?...

-Things you don't know about melatonin...

-Uses and benefits of NAD...

-Nasal and breathing sprays Ben and John recommend...

-New laser technology to administer compounds...

-The mysterious "holy water" John formulated...

-What Ben and John are excited about right now...

-And much more!

Episode sponsors:

-Magnesium Breakthrough

-Seed Daily Synbiotic

-HigherDOSE

-Kion Aminos

bengreenfieldlife.com/melatoninpodcast

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An intensely curious entrepreneur and philanthropist, Naveen Jain focuses on ideas that push humanity forward, and his ideas will be featured in my upcoming book Boundless Parenting, which will showcase Naveen and 30+ additional amazing parents from around the globe who are sharing their deep wisdom and advice so that you can be a better parent and better human.

From local boy to lunar visionary, Naveen sees beyond the current business and technological landscape, creating companies that make a true impact. As the founder of Viome, Moon Express, World Innovation Institute, TalentWise, Intelius, and Infospace, Naveen is an intensely curious entrepreneur who is focused on audacious ideas that push humanity forward.

He is the author of the award-winning book, Moonshots: Creating a World of Abundance, the creator of Mindvalley, Masterclass programs, and behind XPrize a global future positive movement and on the board of Singularity University.

A man who knows no limits and an icon propelled by his imagination, Naveen pushes big dreams into action, spurring massive cultural and technological change. His audacious vision and magnetic personality continually inspire others to follow what feels impossible.

Everything Naveen does—whether commercial or philanthropic, aims at improving the lives of as many people as possible. By applying entrepreneurial values to philanthropy, society ought to meet the needs of—and improve the lives of—the greatest number of people. Giving away money is just a temporary fix. Instead, philanthropy should be approached in a strategic and systematic way. That’s the only way to make a self-sustaining difference in the world.

Naveen’s family is an entrepreneurial one focused on positively impacting the world through the Naveen & Anu Jain Family Foundation which aims to:

- empowering girls and women
- focusing on health and wellness
- educating youth
- and promoting entrepreneurship.

In the past, Naveen has joined me to discuss the many amazing ventures in the health and fitness industry.

But today, Naveen and I shift our focus on to his amazing children who are quite impactful themselves, parenting, family and lifestyle related topics we've never discussed before!

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-About Naveen's children...

-Why Naveen brought his children on business trips when they were young...

-Integrating real world lessons into a child's education...

-Rites of passage and progressing into adulthood...

-Reconciling differences of opinion with the other parent...

-Naveen's view on spending one on one time with the children...

-How Naveen engaged in self-care while raising a family and building several successful businesses...

-The importance of waking up with a purpose in your life...

-What Naveen would do differently as a parent if he could do it again...

-How Naveen would like to be remembered by his children and his wife as a parent...

-Naveen's advice for parents...

-What parenting message Naveen would put on a billboard...

-And much more!

Episode sponsors:

-Butcher Box

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Essentia Mattresses

-Therabody Recovery Boots

-Kion Aminos

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/naveenjain

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/forgotten

Justin “The Big Pygmy” Wren is a former UFC and current Bellator MMA fighter, podcast host of Overcome with Justin Wren, and founder of the charity Fight for the Forgotten.

Fight for the Forgotten exists to empower the most bullied people in the world. They serve displaced indigenous peoples groups in west Africa to help ensure their health and human rights, and work to address the mental and emotional health needs of at-risk youth in the US through bullying prevention and character development programs.

Enjoy my conversation with Justin, which was definitely more of a chat than a traditional interview.

In my conversation with Justin Wren, you'll discover:

-Ben's workout and diet while on the go...

-Boundless origin stories...

-Ben's journey as a human guinea pig and investigative journalist...

-How Ben defines "biohacking"...

-Non-negotiable elements of high-quality sleep...

-Justin shares stories of saving villages in the African jungle...

-Preparing mentally and physically for living in Africa...

-Motivation for Ben's new parenting book...

-Secrets to a great relationship with your spouse and children...

-Justin does the animal psychology quiz with Ben...

-And much more!

-Upcoming Events:

• RUNGA - The Gathering (May 12-14, 2022). Register for the event now by clicking here
• The American (D)ream on May 10, with Garrett Gunderson.
• Health Optimization Summit! Use code BEN for 20% off (May 22-29, 2022). 
• Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldlife.com/calendar

Episode sponsors:

-Organifi Apple Green Juice

-Vuori

-Kion Aminos

-Ketone IQ by HVMN

-Nootopia by Bioptimizers

-Ben Greenfield Coaching

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/forgotten

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Chris Williamson is a podcaster, YouTuber and club promoter.

He's into health, psychology, biohacking and a host of topics we love to talk about here at Ben Greenfield Life. His podcast is called "Modern Wisdom".

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Which is healthier? A car battery or Diet Dr. Pepper?...

-How Chris got introduced to the world of podcasting, sharing his unique message with the world...

-Chris' morning routine...

-Routines and rituals throughout the day...

-Ben and Chris' process for prepping for podcast interviews...

-Chris' nutrition practices...

-The dichotomy between the use of tech and practicing self-control...

-Reading humans based on cognitive biases, and improving human relations...

-Building a solid foundation for one's life...

-And much more...

Resources from this episode:

Episode sponsors:

-JOOVV

-Levels Health

-Water and Wellness

-Timeline Nutrition

-Kion Aminos

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Chris Williamson or me? Leave your comments below and one of us will reply!

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

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Ian Mitchell first joined me for the episode "Vape Pens, Hair Growth Serums, Fixing The Pineal Gland & C60 (The Next Great Longevity Molecule).". He is a leading researcher of Carbon60 and holds many new patents in the space. He is working towards bringing quantum medicine into the forefront and using nanoparticles and many other modalities to enhance peoples’ and pet’s lifespans and more importantly health spans. Ian has founded Biocharged, a company that was inspired by Nikola Tesla, the original expert in ozone, and is committed to packing as much ozone into a pill. Ian is the Polymath in Residency at Ecliptic Capital, the Lead Scientist at Biocharged and Wizard Sciences, and the head of R&D at BioHack.

As the Lead Scientist at Biocharged, Ian helped develop Resistor, a charged Ozonated Oil that promotes gut support, cellular strength, and provides immune support, just to name a few things. 

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-The crazy foods Ben and Ian consumed prior to recording...

-The amazing new ozone product produced by Wizard Science...

-A product that may be able to reverse Alzheimers...

-About Olympic RX...

-What Ian is doing with shilajit...

-Synthesizing peptides without the negative physical effects...

-How Ian comes up with new ideas...

-How the brain is entrained by music...

-And much more...

Resources from this episode:

Episode sponsors:

-Ketone IQ by HVMN

-Hapbee

-Kion Aminos

-HigherDOSE

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Ian Mitchell or me? Leave your comments at https://bengreenfieldlife.com/wizardscience and one of us will reply!

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Allow me to introduce you to my friend Garrett Gunderson, the Founder of an Inc. 500 firm, author of the NY Times hit, Killing Sacred Cows and multiple WSJ bestselling books.

Garrett Gunderson is called a "financial genius" in entrepreneurial circles, but he wasn't born with a silver spoon. In fact, Garrett's blue-collar roots are what make him so passionate about helping people live a life they love, on their own terms.

Garrett comes from a 4th generation coal mining family, raised in rural Utah and his desire to help people is firmly rooted in this history because more often than not there is nothing more distressing for most people than money. So, after spending 20 years in the industry, his approach has shifted. He now takes what he knows best (Money) and has combined it with what he loves most (Comedy) into his new methodology, Win, Then Play.

We all have the opportunity not only to WIN but to win bigger, more often and attain what we want. But to do that, we must let go of myths and embrace truth and self expression.

If you’re ready to transform your life, finances and future, today’s guest will help you do just that. It’s time we all laugh at money’s expense for a change!

You'll also hear about my upcoming STANDUP COMEDY gig in Austin, TX. Click or tap here for more info!

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Is Garrett a comedian or wealth manager these days?...

-Sacred cows in our society that beg to be disrupted...

-Tipping the sacred cow of money equaling happiness...

-The four persona's that show the disparity between the scarcity vs. abundance mentality...

-The hard lessons that brought Garrett to his knees financially speaking...

-The value of "protective" expenses...

-How to leverage your life insurance policy to become your own bank...

-What Garret means when he says, "Win, then play"...

-An exclusive sneak peek into Garrett's newest comedy book...

Episode sponsors:

-Organifi Green Juice

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Kion Aminos

-Magnesium Breakthrough

-Endure

-Ice Barrel

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Garrett or me? Leave your comments below and one of us will reply!

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

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I first met Doug Wolkon when I was visiting Kauai and was convinced by big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton to go visit a favorite local farm of his called Kauai Farmacy. I was immediately blown away by the vast array of over 80 varieties of organic healing plants and food orchards…

…along with a team of incredibly knowledgeable herbalists and gardeners; a closed-loop vermiculture feeding system (worm compost farm), honeybees, butterflies, and other pollinators; wildfowl; environmentally-compatible farming (water-catchments, permaculture guilds, and more); and medicine-making systems (solar-dehydrators, low-temperature herb-curing, herbal teas, tinctures, hydrosols, salves, honey, capsules, and more).

Everything is done by hand at the Farmacy, including brewing homemade fertilizers from the plants they grow. They seed, propagate, plant, hand-harvest, artisanally-craft, and package all the herbal products they grow right on the farm. The fresh and pure nature of the herbs ensures high quality, potent, consistent, and effective plant medicine straight from the source.

Since that visit two years ago, if you've been following me on Instagram and elsewhere, you've seen me using ample amounts of Kauai Farmacy powders and tinctures in my recipes, along with products such as their salves and hydrosols for joint and skin health. Rooted in the wisdom of Hawaiian La’au lapa’au, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and the tribal indigenous, the potent herbal plant medicines harvested from the rich, volcanic soil of Kauai just seem to have a very unique and special energy.

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Doug pursued a ten-year career in private equity finance in Connecticut. Before moving his family to Hawaii in 2007, Doug published The New Game, an economic theory and strategy for sustainable communities.

Doug co-founded Kauai Farmacy in 2010 with his wife Genna, and they currently live there with their three kids. The Farmacy is a seed-to-cup tropical herbal oasis spanning four acres and consisting of what may be the most diverse collection of plant medicine in the western hemisphere.

After spending the last 10 years experiencing the power of fresh plant medicine for both himself and his family on a daily basis, Doug thrives on a high-fat, ketogenic, 100% raw-food diet. Doug believes Kauai Farmacy's vertically-integrated herbal medicine model is a budding example of what needs to be the future of a more sustainable, preventative-care-focused healthcare industry.

You can click here to shop Kauai Farmacy, and use code GREENFIELD15 to save 15% on any products on their site, including those you'll discover below.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-What brought Doug to Kauai ten years ago...

-First days on the farm...

-What you don't know about noni...

-Honey made out of noni fruit...

-What makes a spice "high grade"?...

-Ways to hydrate and remineralize your body you may not have thought of before...

-Ginger: the most popular plant medicine in history...

-A potent yet gentle to fortify your skin...

-How to create your own medicine farm Doug Wolkon style...

And much more!

Episode sponsors:

-Seed Daily Synbiotic

-Hapbee

-Kion Aminos

-Joy Mode

-Spring Transformation Challenge

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Doug Wolkon or me? Leave your comments at https://bengreenfieldlife.com/foodasmedicine and one of us will reply!

bengreenfieldlife.com/nftpodcast

Strap yourselves in for a wild ride.

While both of my guests on today's are nitty-gritty biohackers (and we will delve into that), health is about more than just biohacking. If you get wealth and relationships sorted out in your lives, then they both enhance your health. So while we will get into biohacking tips for sure, we will also get into how wealth and relationships have helped these two optimize outcomes in all fields of life to enhance their overall life.

Andrew Masanto is a serial entrepreneur and investor who also owns Biohackinggroup.com. Most recently active in Blockchain, Andrew was the Founding CMO of Reserve (https://reserve.org/ - backed by Peter Thiel, Coinbase and others, currently at $1b+ valuation) and Founding CMO of Hedera Hashgraph (https://hedera.com - backed by Google, IBM, Boeing etc with a fully diluted $10b+ valuation crypto currency). Andrew experienced his early successes (pre Fintech) in the digital marketing space. He founded and sold Higher Click SEO Agency and has lectured on internet marketing at Harvard Business School and Oxford University (amongst other organizations). He has also been quoted by various industry leaders on growth marketing. Before entering into the technology and marketing space, Andrew was a dual qualified Lawyer in Australia and the UK. He worked as a lawyer at Linklaters (a Magic Circle UK Law Firm) in the UK and an investment banking analyst at Rothschild in Sydney, Australia.

Jordan Fried is a blockchain evangelist and crypto-capitalist. He’s currently the Chairman and CEO of Immutable Holdings, “The Blockchain Holding Company.” He founded and operates NFT.com as well as Immutable Asset Management. Previously Jordan was part of the founding team behind Hedera Hashgraph (Hedera.com). He served as Senior Vice President of Business Development at Hedera from inception in 2017 until the end of 2020, signing partnerships with Google, IBM, Boeing, and LG Electronics while also launching $HBAR into one of the top 100 cryptocurrencies in the world. Jordan also co-founded and served as CEO of Buffered VPN, one of the most trusted personal VPN services online until it was acquired in the first quarter of 2017. In 2012 Jordan discovered Bitcoin and never turned back.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How Jordan and Andrew met and began working together...

-Andrew's TBI protocol that was shared on the internet and caught Ben's eye years ago...

-How Jordan identifies as "hard-core keto"...

-Non-negotiables in Andrew and Jordan's daily routines...

-A few of the unlimited benefits of NFT's...

-Why NFT.com is the bee's knees of the NFT space...

-Top thing Jordan and Andrew do to maximize productivity during long work hours...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Timeline Nutrition

-Essentia Mattresses

-Clearlight Saunas

-Thrive Market

-Ketone IQ by HVMN

-Spring Transformation Challenge

-Endure

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Andrew Masanto or me? Leave your comments below and one of us will reply!

My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.

Visit https://getendure.com for all the details!

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/sleepwithessentia

My guest on this podcast, Jack Dell’Accio, is the Founder and CEO of Essentia, which is the world’s only naturalmemory foam mattress. Jack has dedicated the last 16 years to studying mattresses and sleep health. His journey began after experiencing a family member’s battle with cancer. After being made aware of the toxins in everyday items, the Dell’Accio family struggled to find a mattress that offered pressure relief and posture support without introducing toxins to the bedroom. He realized at that point how important this was not only for someone battling disease but also for healthy people.

Knowing that you spend a third of your life sleeping on what can be the most toxic item in your home is why Jack stepped in to develop Essentia’s patented natural memory foam which is made using only the highest quality natural and organic ingredients to ensure that you are not being exposed to the toxic chemicals.

Over those years, Jack discovered a way to create a mattress that was toxin-free and healthy so that others wouldn't have to suffer from health issues like his relative did. His determination finally led him to create, patent and invent a mattress that is handmade in Canada with the world's only all-natural memory foam, composed of natural latex, plant extracts, essential oils and water.

In other words, Jack figured out how to manufacture the greenest, healthiest and most comfortable night's sleep you'll ever have.

And the ingredients used in this no-spring, no-wool mattress are unlike any you've ever seen, including:

Hevea Milk – the milky white “sap” of the rubber tree, collected much like maple tree sap. This milk is processed to make the Essentia natural memory foam, which is known for its durability, support qualities and purity…

Organic Essential Oils – a natural and healthy alternative to man-made oils or petroleum commonly used in other mattresses. Grapefruit seed, cone flower essence and jasmine essence all help achieve proper consistency in the Essentia natural memory foam while providing soothing and rejuvenating properties to your body…

Natural Plant Extracts – as a substitution to harsh toxic chemicals used in conventional memory foam, plant extracts such as hydrolyzed corn help Essentia achieve the proper consistency for their natural memory foam…

Certified Organic Cotton – Every Essentia mattress is wrapped in 100% GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified unbleached organic cotton, grown without any chemicals, synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Rather than using toxic glue, they use a non-toxic adhesive made from liquid latex and acrylic resin to hold their natural memory foam layers together.

Of course, Essentia also has 5 pound density memory foam throughout, an extremely low mmHG (this is very important for your joint biomechanics as you sleep) and a 20-year warranty on the most durable memory foam on the face of the planet. So basically, you not just get the best sleep ever on an Essentia mattress, but you could probably even eat an Essentia mattress.

These mattresses are also held to the strictest of strict standards. As a matter of fact, here's an extensive list of all the rigorous tests and certifications the Essentia mattresses go through.

The end result is a completely guilt-free, hypo-allergenic, non-toxic sleeping experience unlike any you'll ever experience. You'll roll out of bed feeling ready to conquer the world, with zero pressure points or tossing and turning during the night.

Over the last few years Jack has been working with the Delos Wellness and data from their Well Living Lab / Mayo Clinic collaboration. They consider Essentia the best suited mattress for human sustainability as we score highest on all sleep environment pillars. Poor sleep environment often is the source of stimulants that increase activity of the CNS and prevent longer deep sleep cycles. They go into a broader range in looking into how these effect human behavior, happiness, and productivity.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How Jack got interested in sleep and mattresses...

-How Essentia tackles the allergens issue...

-How Essentia differs from most memory foams on the market...

-The 7 sleep environment stimulants that keep you awake at night...

-How the Essentia mattress helps with EMF...

-Gold standard mattress setup...

-Hybrid mattresses to help out with the wallet...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-JOOVV

-Seed Daily Synbiotic

-Organifi Red Juice

-Endure

-Ice Barrel

-Kion Aminos

-Spring Transformation Challenge

News Flashes:

World’s Happiest Country Ranking Goes to Finland for Fifth Year in a Row: (Key variables include gross domestic product, healthy life expectancy, generosity, social support, freedom to make life choices and perceptions of corruption.)...

The 8 Factors of Happiness

The newest research-proven flavor of exercise that allows for impressive results without inflammation or muscle damage "High Intensity Functional Training":  (here's a sample workout)...

The latest longevity hack: glycine + NAC...

Can’t cook, won’t cook? Here are the tips that saved me from a life of terrible meals...

Organs, small fish, dark green leafy vegetables, bivalves, crustaceans, goat, beef, eggs, milk, canned fish with bones, mutton, and lamb...sounds like a pretty decent diet to me...

Listener Q&A:

Downsides to extended exposure to methylene blue...

Regenerative practices to help the bone that won't quite heal...

Do you recommend sauna therapy for adrenal fatigue or HPA dysfunction?...

Tips for reversing muscle atrophy...

This episode is brought to you by...

-Endure

-Butcher Box

-Kion Sleep

-HigherDOSE

-Therabody

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/energybalance

Are you exercising too much?

Is hormesis a bad thing?

How much exercise is too much?

Should we be avoiding things like carb restriction, saunas and cold?

Is caloric restriction really not necessary for lifespan?

My first guest on this podcast - Jay Feldman - is a health coach, independent health researcher, and the host of The Energy Balance Podcast, and has strong opinions on all the questions above, and many others. He has degrees in neuroscience and exercise physiology from the University of Miami and decided to forgo medical school after realizing that the conventional medical approach was not the solution to the health problems that so many of us face.

After working through various conventional and alternative health paradigms and trialing countless diets (including everything from vegetarian to keto), Jay came across the idea that cellular energy is the foundation of our health. He now uses a bioenergetic approach to help men and women around the world maximize their cellular energy and achieve freedom from low-energy symptoms like chronic hunger & cravings, fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, gut issues, and weight gain.

Jay is joined here by Mike Fave, an independent researcher, and a Registered Nurse. Traditionally educated in western medicine as an RN, his true passion is independent research. He spent close to a decade with his head inside a Pubmed article or a physiology textbook, and his heart in some type of nutrition or supplement experiment.

In the beginning of his journey, Mike damaged his health getting caught up in dietary dogma and nutrition ideology. He went the western medical route to try to fix the damage and wound up getting talked into a surgery he didn’t need. It’s taken him years to recover, but he doesn't regret it because he learned significantly from his mistakes. He saw all sides of the spectrum from being a patient to being a practitioner to being a part of the alternative health scene. He takes his lessons, experiences, and knowledge to help others not only avoid the mistakes he made, but help them rebuild their health without dogma, ideology, or authoritarianism.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-The history of the bioenergetic model...

-How Jay and Mike reconcile the dichotomy between their view and the traditional view of a hormetic approach to health...

-Why the traditional hormetic model is incorrect...

-What causes energy access that leads to chronic disease…

-What Jay and Mike's model looks like in the real world...

-Clarity on what Jay and Mike's model does NOT mean...

-Better ways to get the benefits of hormesis without the stress of hormesis...

-And much more...

Upcoming Events:

• RUNGA: The Gathering (May 12-14, 2022). Register for the event now by clicking here (only 50 spots available, going FAST!)
• Health Optimisation Summit, May 22-29, 2022
• Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldfitness.com/calendar

Episode sponsors:

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Magnesium Breakthrough

-Endure

-Dry Farm Wines

-Kion Sleep

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Jay Feldman or me? Leave your comments below and one of us will reply!

https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/freerangeinterview

Robin Shirley is the Founding President of Take Back Your Health Int’l, a company that hosts health conferences and retreats across the U.S. She speaks, consults and writes about The Take Back Your Health Lifestyle and how to reduce the symptoms of chronic illness, especially in children.

Robin is a mother of two beautiful babies, a passionate cook, a Medical Intuitive, Reiki Master Practitioner, Energy Healer, Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and a member of the American Board of Drugless Practitioners. She has helped thousands of people overcome the symptoms of Chronic Lyme Disease, Autoimmune Disease and Depression through her energy healing sessions, intuitive readings, and nutrition, detoxification and healing protocols.

Robin grew up with chronic pain, headaches, rashes, depression, digestive discomfort and out-of-control systemic inflammation, and was diagnosed with Systemic Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis at 11 years old. She tried everything to heal naturally. Food overhauls helped a little, supplements helped a little, but nothing truly took the pain away. At 23 years old, Robin was on track to file for disability and give up on her dream to run her own hospitality company.

Robin has personally experienced the power of a natural approach to reducing pain and inflammation. Fast forward and Robin is now 32 years old, a mother of two beautiful babies, fiancé to the love of her life and running the business of her dreams. She  is in the process of writing her first book and launching online healing programs for chronically ill patients to get healthy from home.

Robin writes and posts about the Take Back Your Health Lifestyle on www.ClubTBYH.com

During this episode, you'll discover:

-The Greenfield family eating traditions...

-The core message of Ben's upcoming parenting book...

-Ben's morning routines...

-Jessa's and the boys' morning routines...

-How two new children affected Ben and Jessa's lifestyle...

-Solidifying values and purpose specific to a family...

-How River and Terran spend their days...

-Silver linings discovered among the capricious clouds of Covid-19...

-And much more!

Upcoming Events:

• RUNGA: The Gathering (May 12-14, 2022). Register for the event now by clicking here (only 50 spots available)
• Health Optimisation Summit, May 22-29, 2022
• Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldfitness.com/calendar

Episode sponsors:

-Endure

-Qualia Mind by Neurohacker

-Vuori

-Ben Greenfield Coaching

-Organifi Apple Green Juice

-Kion Sleep

-Ice Barrel

Got a question for Robin Shirley or myself about today's episode? Leave a comment at  https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/freerangeinterview, and one of us will reply!

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/stemcellpodcast

I recently underwent the full body stem cell makeover protocol with Dr. Harry Adelson and Dr. Amy Killen, who you'll be introduced to in just a moment. With that being said, I wanted to break down the details about the procedure and my experience with it for those of you who may be interested in a stem cell makeover, or are just plain old fascinated by it.

I did an Instagram Live last week where a lot of you may have seen me in one of those fancy hospital gowns, hooked up to a dialysis machine where they were pumping out tons of my blood out of one arm and then re-introducing it back into my body via the other arm. By the process of hyperoxygenation, the blood coming out of my body is being bombarded with ultraviolet light, causing the blood to turn from dark red to light red through the filtering process, and that light red, filtered blood is then pumped back into my body, leaving me with super clean, purified blood. So, what's the point of all this and why would people want to do this?

So the point of this exact protocol that I underwent in the Instagram Live video is typically performed to purify the blood as much as possible, starting with a big bone marrow aspiration, where they concentrate the stem cells from the bone marrow for the treatment. The best candidates for a procedure like this are people who may be experiencing chronic arthritic pain or people who don't even want to get to that point as a preventative measure.

A couple of benefits noted from the procedure were an improvement in sleep, faster recovery post-workout, as well as improved sexual experience in terms of firmness of the erection, the orgasm, etc. And, of course, the big one is improving on the present pain whether it's in your neck, back, or elsewhere. It's a game-changer for people who are in a lot of pain and just want to get back to feeling like they did when they were younger. It's like an oil change for the body, completely non-invasive, pain-free, and easy to do.

So without further adieu, let's meet the doctors at Docere Clinics behind this stem cell makeover, Dr. Harry Adelson and Dr. Amy Killen.

In this episode, you'll discover:

-How Dr. Adelson became involved in stem cell therapy...

-How the stem cell industry continues to evolve...

-The stem cell therapy sequence...

-Why people would seek stem cell therapy...

-Aesthetic and sexual effects of Amy's portion of the treatment...

-How you feel after the procedure...

-Does it matter where the stem cells come from?...

-Biohacks to stack with stem cell therapy...

-Costs for the treatment...

-How to find out more about Docere Clinics...

-And much more!

Episode sponsors:

-Endure

-JOOVV

-Water and Wellness

-Dry Farm Wines

-Kion Sleep

Got a question for Dr. Harry Adelson, Dr. Amy Killen or me about today's podcast? Drop a comment at https://bengreenfieldlife.com/stemcellpodcast, and one of us will reply!

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/stemcellpodcast

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/timgray

Tim Gray is the UK’s Leading Biohacker, and Founder of the Health Optimisation Summit (use code Ben to save 20%). As a psychology specialist and a successful businessman, Tim founded and invested in multiple 6-figure businesses, including digital marketing agencies, and London’s first private Hyperbaric Oxygen Clinic.

Tim is known for his detailed tracking of more than 35+ biomarkers per day, is frequently in the mainstream media regarding practical, trackable, and immediately apply-able health hacks, and is featured on over 30 podcasts a year.

After years spent self-healing his body from chronic health conditions through biohacking alone, Tim embarked on a mission to educate and empower the masses. As such, he created The Health Optimisation Summit , Europe’s largest health conference, which aims to provide people with the knowledge, tools and resources to take their own health and performance to the next level.

The Health Optimisation Summit showcases the best speakers from the health, biohacking, fitness, longevity, nutrition, and function and preventative medicine spaces.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How Tim got interested in biohacking initially...

-Tim's morning routine...

-Tim's workday and go to supplements...

-Strategies for staying active throughout the day

-Cool featured at Tim's summit in London...

-New tech that will change the game in coming years...

-Bonus audio: Tim Gray's daily biohacking routine...

Resources from this episode:

Health Optimisation Summit (use code Ben to save 20%)

Episode sponsors:

-Endure

-Willo

-HigherDOSE

-Kion Sleep

-Runga

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Tim Gray or me? Leave your comments below and one of us will reply!

https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/sleeppodcast

26 March 2022

In this conversation with Angelo Keely, you'll discover:

What's been up with Angelo lately...

-Why sleep is important...

-The science of sleep...

-Possible purposes of sleep...

-The Kion Sleep formulation...

-Uses of Kion Sleep...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Joy Mode

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Boundless NFT

-Hapbee

-Kion Sleep

-Greenfield Botanics

Got a question for Angelo Keely or me regarding today's episode? Drop a comment at https://bengreenfieldlife.com/sleeppodcast, and one of us will reply!

Upcoming Events:

• Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldfitness.com/calendar

Special Announcements...

-The Boundless Cookbook: Optimize your physical and mental performance with nutritious and delicious Greenfield family recipes. This is your roadmap to a culinary journey that includes ancient food and wild game preparation tactics, biohacked smoothies, meat rubs, cocktails, desserts, and beyond—without any restrictive diet, limited ingredients, or tasteless “health foods”!  Order yours today here!

Check out Ben on Instagram for epic posts and photos about his morning, day, and evening routines, recipes, and much more!

Follow Ben on Twitter for daily news flashes and the latest health, fitness, and anti-aging research.

Join Ben's Facebook page for conversations with listeners and even more useful information, posts, and support!

Listener Q&A :

Q: Tips for healing an injured hand, after having tried everything under the sun...57:05

Episode sponsors:

-The GSD Network

-Endure

-Magnesium Breakthrough

-Dry Farm Wines

-Organifi Apple Green Juice

-Kion Sleep

-Runga

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/tuckermax

Tucker Max has written four New York Times Best Selling books (three that hit #1), which have sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. He’s credited with being the originator of the literary genre, “fratire,” and is only the fourth writer (along with Malcolm Gladwell, Brene Brown and Michael Lewis) to have three books on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Seller List at one time.

He co-founded Scribe Media, the premier professional publishing company that has helped people like David Goggins, Tiffany Haddish and Dan Sullivan publish their books.

He was nominated to the Time Magazine 100 Most Influential List in 2009. He received his BA from the University of Chicago in 1998, and his JD from Duke Law School in 2001. He currently lives on a ranch in Dripping Springs, Texas, with his wife Veronica and four children.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How Tucker developed the skill of writing...

-Tucker's writing process...

-Tucker's life post-Scribe Media...

-How chopping wood in the yard led to Tucker's "doomer optimism" philosophy...

-Why tight community is the answer to surviving chaos...

-Practical tips for surviving a SHTF scenario...

-The importance of raising educated and free-thinking children...

-And much more!

Episode sponsors:

-Seed Daily Synbiotic

-Dry Farm Wines

-Clearlight Saunas

-Kion Sleep

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Tucker Max or me? Leave your comments at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/tuckermax and one of us will reply!

bengreenfieldfitness.com/patgreenfield

17 March 2022

My interview with my father Gary Greenfield ("Why Water, Sunlight, Grounding & Relationships Are The Keys To Your Health & How To Feed, Clean & Protect Your Body Forever: An Interview With Ben Greenfield’s Father Gary Greenfield") was such a hit that today I am bringing to you the official interview in which I put my own mother, Pat Greenfield, in the hotseat.

Get ready for a wild ride and amazing conversation with my mom, in which we discuss my own upbringing, diets and health food, coffee, her move to Idaho, trauma, homeschooling and much, much more!

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Pat's upbringing and adopting a vegetarian diet as a child...

-Moving out of the house, striking out on her own...

-How trauma revealed God's love and grace to Pat...

-Moving to Idaho...

-What kind of student was Ben Greenfield?...

-Gushing over Rosie, the adopted child...

-How Pat spends her days in Moscow, ID currently...

-Pat's food philosophy growing her children...

-How the Greenfield kids got into music, athletics and fitness...

-What is it like to be a grandma?...

-And much more!

Upcoming Events:

• RUNGA - The Gathering (May 12-14, 2022). Register for the event now by clicking here
• Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldfitness.com/calendar

Episode sponsors:

-JOOVV

-Kion Sleep

-Organifi Apple Green Juice

-HigherDOSE

-Ben Greenfield Coaching

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for my mom Pat Greenfield or me? Leave your comments at https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/patgreenfield and one of us will reply!

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/ChrisShade

10 March 2022

Dr. Christopher Shade, PhD, founder and CEO of Quicksilver Scientific®, specializes in the biological, environmental, and analytical chemistry of mercury in all its forms and their interactions with sulfur compounds, particularly glutathione and its enzyme system.

He has patented a mercury speciation diagnostic process to analyze human toxicity, founded the only clinical lab in the world offering mercury speciation analysis, and has designed cutting edge systems of nutraceuticals for detoxification and antioxidant protection, including advanced phospholipid delivery systems for both water- and fat-soluble compounds. His Quicksilver Delivery Systems® nanoparticle technology increases the bioavailability of supplements and protocols leading to higher efficacy products.

Dr. Shade is regularly sought out to speak as an educator on the topics of mercury, environmental toxicities, neuroinflammation, immune dysregulation, and the human detoxification system in the United States and internationally. He has helped corporate executives, professional athletes, celebrities, children with autism, patients with chronic immune disorders and more. He strives to evolve the way the medical industry delivers care, and he is perpetually broadening the way the world understands health.

Dr. Shade has a new podcast called "Shades of Health". For this podcast discussion, which he recorded while interviewing me for his new show, we also decided to release right here on my show for you. So enjoy! And be sure to check out all Chris's crazy formulations at : INSERT LINK/CODE HERE

During our discussion, you’ll discover:

-A scintillating update on the condition of Ben's left knee...

-Targeted senamorphic drives throughout the year as a hormetic trigger...

-HIIT the best means for activating AMP-K pathways...

-How to use hydrogen around exercise...

-Easy to incorporate biohacks for the average person...

-Differences between the genders when it comes to fasting and a ketogenic diet...

-The breakfast protocol Ben is currently experimenting with...

-And much more!

Episode sponsors:

-Magnesium Breakthrough

-Thrive Market

-Hapbee

-Kion Sleep

Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Chris Shade or me? Visit https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/chrisshade and we'll reply!

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/humandesign

3 March 2022

My wife, my sons and I recently went through a fascinating process called a "Human Design Reading", with my podcast guest for this show - a man named Luis Portillo. It was absolutely mind-blowing how much Luis was able to "read me like a book", armed with very little knowledge besides my birth location, birth time and birth date. Obviously, I just had to get into the nitty-gritty of how Human Design principles work for today's podcast, as it has truly helped my own decision making process and communication with other humans, including my own family, quite notably.

Luis started working as a lawyer at an international corporate law firm, on the Mexican side of the Tijuana-San Diego, California Border. In a eureka moment, he resigned and moved to the tropical beaches of Puerto Vallarta and Nayarit, Mexico. Being in a new environment, he started to investigate and explore several disciplines of self-knowledge; like meditation, breath work, sweat lodges, Tapping, Reiki, and transpersonal psychology.

Luis has participated in Healing work with representatives from different traditions, such as the Maya, Lakota, Huichol, and at the Michael Harner Foundation for Shamanic Studies, in San Diego, California. In 2010, Luis received a Human Design Reading, and it resonated to the extent of him studying it in depth, and since then, has given Readings to clients from all over the world.

Luis has the artfulness to share his knowledge, in a clear and simple manner. He lives in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and can be seen at nights doing Stand-Up Comedy at local venues.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Luis' journey to studying human design...

-What is "Human Design"?...

-The importance of the birth time, date and location related to Human Design...

-The four different types of Human Design...

-The unknown chakra we should be paying attention to...

-People you've probably heard of who have had Human Design readings...

-How differing design readings affect our mood and perception of reality...

-Does an additional 2 chakras change how we should change our lifestyles and connecting with the universe...

-Luis reviews Ben's Human Design reading...

Resources from this episode:

include his email address as he instructs in the audio

Episode sponsors:

-Kion Sleep

-JOOVV

-Vuori

-Organifi Red Juice

-Personal Peak Performance Summit

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Luis Portillo or me? Leave your comments at https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/humandesign and one of us will reply!

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/countingcalories

3 March 2022

Calorie information is ubiquitous.

On packaged food, restaurant menus, and online recipes, we see authoritative numbers that tell us the calorie count of what we're about to consume. And many of us treat these numbers as gospel: counting, cutting, intermittently consuming, and, if you believe some “experts” out there, magically making them disappear.

We all know, and governments advise, that losing weight is just a matter of burning more calories than we consume. Here's the thing, however, that most people have no idea about: All of the calorie counts that you see everywhere today are WRONG.

In Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong, my guest on today's podcast, Dr. Giles Yeo, who is an obesity researcher at Cambridge University, challenges the conventional model and demonstrates that all calories are not created equal. He addresses why popular diets succeed, at least in the short term, why they ultimately fail, and what your environment has to do with your bodyweight. Once you understand that calories don't count, you can begin to make different decisions about how you choose to eat, learning what you really need to be counting instead. Practical, science-based, and full of illuminating anecdotes, this is the most entertaining dietary advice you'll ever find.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-What's a calorie?....

-The A-B-C equation of measuring calories in food...

-The problem with Atwater's factors...

-What's a DIT value and why does that matter...

-Did we get it right when it comes to labeling our food?...

-Why we're terrible judges of calorie counting...

-Advice for a good macronutrient ratio with minimal ultra-processed food in the diet...

Resources from this episode:

Episode sponsors:

-Personal Peak Performance Summit

-Qualia Mind by Neurohacker

-Water and Wellness

-Kion Sleep

-HigherDOSE

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Giles Yeo or me? Leave your comments at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/countingcalories and one of us will reply!

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/brainfmshow 

26 February 2022

My podcast guest for this show, Dan Clark, previously worked as a website and app developer, but switched careers from building an advertising agency and came across Brain.fm. In his first session, he bought an account and was so excited after a week of use, he needed to be part of the company. He called 12 times. He finally got a job and worked the first month for free. Fast forward, he’s now the CEO, and 2019's Forbes 30 under 30. Dan is always excited about how technology can change the world, and Brain.fm is no exception - via non-invasive neurotechnology that does not require plant medicines, nootropics or drugs to shift you into an altered or elevated state of consciousness.

Brain.fm holds patents on key processes for creating functional music, including technology to elicit strong neural phase locking—allowing populations of neurons to engage in various kinds of coordinated activity—and technology to remove distraction in sound. This makes their music unique, purpose-built to steer you into a desired mental state. In other words, they've found new ways to create music that helps you do what you need to do.

Scientists atBrain.fm work with collaborators at academic institutions to run experiments. They looked at the effects of our technology on the brain, using fMRI and EEG, and also run large-scale behavioral tests, measuring performance on simple games. Their experiments always include a control condition (‘placebo’) of the same underlying music without Brain.fm technology applied, so they can be sure our tech is what makes the difference. In this podcast, you'll discover what their science has found, and much more.

Also joining us on today's call is Dr. Kevin J.P. Woods, Director of Science at Brain.fm.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-What is Brain.fm and how Dan got involved with the company...

-The science behind Brain.fm and what differentiates it from other focus apps...

-How the Brain.fm music tracks are developed...

-How Brain.fm is different from binaural beats...

-Slow wave sleep and long-term memory...

-About the "focus" mode on Brain.fm...

-Why it's not advisable to combine Brain.fm with popular music...

-How to maximize the Brain.fm experience...

-And much more...

Click here to try Brain.fm today!

Episode sponsors:

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Butcher Box

-Tru Kava

-Ketone IQ by HVMN

-Kion Flex

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Dan Clark or me? Leave your comments at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/brainfmshow and one of us will reply!

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/breedlove

24 February 2022: Spokane, Washington; Kauai, Hawai'i

Robert Breedlove is a Bitcoin-focused entrepreneur, writer, and philosopher. He was raised in Tennessee attending Southern Baptist Churches but spent most of his life spiritual yet agnostic. Through his explorations down the proverbial “Bitcoin rabbit hole,” Robert found himself becoming reacquainted with Christianity at the age of 33. He was particularly inspired by Austrian economics and the teachings of Jordan Peterson, which helped him reconcile his purely objective outlook on reality with its more subjective dimensions of valuation, morality, and meaning.

Robert considers himself a Freedom Maximalist and believes he has found his life’s work in the Bitcoin space as a contributor to the separation of money and state. Through his writing and media work, Robert aims to elucidate the importance of freedom and self-sovereignty across all spheres of human action. Find Robert on Twitter (@Breedlove22) where he posts about Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and philosophy.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-The journey to becoming a "freedom maximalist"...

-The Creature and its cronies fight for survival in the digital age...

-What is money anyway?...

-How the gold standard began its descent into obscurity after World War 2...

-Why strong private property rights are necessary for prosperity to thrive...

-The superiority of Bitcoin to any other financial medium...

-Health protocols and biohacks common among Bitcoin enthusiasts...

-And much more!

Resources from this episode:

-Thank God For Bitcoin

-The Secret, Absurd World of Coronavirus Mask Traders and Middlemen Trying To Get Rich Off Government Money

Episode sponsors:

-Organifi Green Juice

-Kion Coffee

-JOOVV

-Magnesium Breakthrough

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Robert Breedlove or me? Leave your comments below and one of us will reply!

Dr. Thomas Cowan is a well-known alternative medicine doctor, author and speaker, with a common-sense, holistic approach to health and wellness. He has given countless lectures and workshops throughout the U.S. on a variety of subjects in health and medicine, and is the author of six best-selling books.

From 1985 until 2019, Dr. Cowan had a general-medical practice, first in upstate New York, then for 17 years in Peterborough, N.H., and for 17 years in San Francisco, until his recent retirement from active practice. 

He was a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation and continues to serve as its vice president.In the past five years, he launched two businesses along with his wife and two sons. The first, Dr. Cowan’s Garden, offers high-quality vegetable powders and kitchen staples; the second, Dr. Tom Cowan, LLC (this website) distributes information, hosts his popular webinar series, and offers many of the products he has used personally and in his practice.

Dr. Cowan lives with his wife, Lynda, on rural farmland in Upstate New York. He has three children, one stepson and six thriving grandchildren. He is an avid gardener, and recently added several sheep and barn kittens to his growing farmstead.

Originally, Dr. Cowan and I planned to talk about his lovely and nourishing vegetable powders, but this podcast took an entirely different turn towards the topic of whether viruses really exist, and I think you'll be quite surprised at the answer!

In this discussion with Dr. Thomas Cowan, you'll discover:

-There's no such thing as a pathogenic virus...

-A study that claimed casein protein causes cancer...

-What to make of virus symptoms if there are no viruses?...

-The virus discussion summarized...

-Why Dr. Cowan was compelled to surrender his medical license...

-Ben's bastardized carnivore diet...

-Going to a higher power for the answers to our most pressing questions...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Kion Aminos

-Qualia Mind by Neurohacker

-Clearlight Saunas

-Personal Peak Performance Summit

Have a question or comment for me or Dr. Thomas Cowan? Leave a comment at bengreenfieldfitness.com/drcowan and one of us will reply!

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Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis join me for today's podcast on all things regenerative medicine, anti-aging, longevity and life force.

Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur, #1 NY Times bestselling author, philanthropist, the nation’s #1 life & business strategist and quite recently, the author of a new book (which I enjoyed immensely and learned a ton from) titled Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love. which we dive into on this show.

He has empowered more than 50 million people from 100 countries around the world through his audio programs, educational videos, and live seminars. For more than four and a half decades, millions of people have enjoyed the warmth, humor, and transformational power of Tony’s business and personal development events.

Tony is a leading philanthropist. Through his 1 Billion Meals Challenge in partnership with Feeding America, Tony has provided over 875 million meals in the last 7 years and he is ahead of schedule to provide 1 billion meals by 2025. Through the Tony Robbins Foundation, he has also awarded over 2,000 grants and other resources to health and human services organizations, implemented a life-changing curriculum in 1,700+ correctional facilities and gathered thousands of young leaders from around the world with its youth programs.

Meet Peter Diamandis

Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the executive founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies.

Peter is described by many as “the best and most dynamic speaker in the industry.” Diamandis’ mission thru his keynotes and speaking engaments is to help his audiences understand the pace and implications of exponential technology, and how to drive innovation within their organizations.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How a debilitating snowboarding accident led Tony to the miracle of stem cell therapy...

-"Humanized pigs" and new tech called biosplicing that's changing the game in organ transplants...

-How biosplicing is changing cancer treatment and therapy...

-A new game in town on boosting NAD levels...

-How Fountain Life is using Cleerly to help detect heart attacks before they even happen...

-Cognostics testing for Alzheimers...

-The unique form of physical therapy that allows Tony to live pain-free (no small feat given his exploits throughout the years)...

-Counter strength therapy...

-Young blood transfers and plasma replacement therapies discussed...

-Microbots that can be injected in the body to rewire the sympathetic nervous system and combat PTSD and depression...

-And MUCH more!

Resources from this episode:

Episode sponsors:

-Tru Kava

-Kion Aminos

-Seed Daily Synbiotic

-HigherDOSE

"Bubbles" by River Greenfield

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback on what was discussed in this episode? Leave your comments at bengreenfieldfitness.com/lifeforce and I'll reply!

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My guest on today's show, Philipp Samor von Holtzendorff-Fehling, is a coach, conscious entrepreneur, and "energy healer". In parallel to a successful international business career, he has constantly worked through blockages and barriers that he says prevented him to be able to truly connect with his true self. In his journey, he started to be able to literally see "energy fields" and thus developed his unique skills as a healer. Subsequently, he went through two decades of training in shamanic and other energy healing practices.

During his business career he worked as an executive for several well known companies, including T-Mobile International and T-Mobile US where he served as Vice President. For his physical fitness he does yoga and plays tennis. When he still played tennis tournaments he finished in the top 8 in the US Senior Nationals. He lives in New Mexico with his wife and two kids.

Philipp's primary business now is Leela Quantum Tech, a company that makes some very interesting equipment I've now been messing around with in my own home. Philipp has developed a unique technology that he claims can imprint pure quantum energy into any object, without any brute-force. This technology - right after assembly - supposedly is able to harmonize and neutralize harmful frequencies, including EMF of any kind. In addition, it can apparently be used in a very simple manner to optimize the well-being of any living organism, (humans, animals, plants), to copy any frequency into any object, and much more.

With that technology Leela Quantum Tech has developed various products that come in handy in the daily life that all have a focus on well-being, strengthening one’s self-healing power, harmonizing EMF, and more. Using information from "healers" (like European “Wunderkind” Roman Hafner) Leela Quantum Tech develops frequency sets for specific use cases that we mainly offer in the form of frequency cards. For example to promote inner peace, support the weight loss process, a special heal frequency set, etc.

Leela Quantum Tech is a small privately funded company with the mission to do its part to help heal the world and to help increase consciousness.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-About the necklace Ben is wearing during the interview that utilizes quantum energy...

-How to know what's actual healing vs. placebo effect...

-How the plates mitigate harmful EMF from your smartphone...

-How these products are different from the various "bio geometry" devices on the market...

-What happens if you put food into the block...

-Why more consumer goods are not made to protect from harmful EMF's...

-About the healers Leela uses to manufacture their products...

-And much more!

Resources from this episode:

Episode sponsors:

-JOOVV

-Organifi Green Juice

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Kion Clean Energy Bars

-Ketone IQ by HVMN

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Philipp von Holtzendorff-Fehling or me? Leave your comments at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/Leela and one of us will reply!

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My guest on this podcast, Jeff Banman, is a recognized leader in the area of human performance and human behavior in high-stress environments. With over 30 years of experience across multiple domains including the Fire Service, the US Army Special Operations Command and the Central Intelligence Agency, Jeff now serves as the COO & Chief Human Performance Officer for the global fitness brand Brute Force. 

After conducting Counterterrorism operations in over twenty-three countries, two combat zones and multiple high-threat/non-permissive environments, Jeff has the privilege of dissecting human behavior at a micro level in order to enhance individual and team performance in some of the most intense moments imaginable. His study evaluated and developed algorithms for calculating minute shifts in Heart Rate Variability against variable stressors, distinct practices for managing the Central Nervous System while under significant stress and integrative techniques to help high-level operators remain fully present in order to navigate extreme situations.

Jeff sees the world differently than most people. For three decades he has been someone people relied upon to solve highly complex problems in extreme and often intense situations. In his time as a Firefighter, Airborne Ranger and CIA Counterterrorism Operator and Business Leader, he's learned one big lesson - extreme and intense is as uniquely relevant to a person as is a fingerprint.

We all perceive things differently and when we experience something significant, stressful or uncertain, Jeff teaches that we respond accordingly. Through his core work developing new human performance protocols for US SOCOM and the Intelligence Community, working with Professional Athletes and High Performing Business Leaders, he has dissected how we navigate intensity, diversity and complexity at any level and in any situation. That insight guides us to a greater level of awareness, an improved ability to regulate our own central nervous system, and a significant advantage in the behaviors that produce the results we are out to produce.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How childhood dreams manifested into Jeff's calling as a high-performance specialist...

-How Jeff quantifies and manages the central nervous system in high-stress scenarios...

-How Jeff has learned to disseminate what he's learned to others across the globe...

-Why unstable loads are the key to Jeff's training program...

-A rabbit trail on how to recover from Covid-induced brain fog...

-A gold-standard workout using Jeff's practices...

-Nutrition protocols recommended by Jeff for his workouts...

Resources from this episode:

Episode sponsors:

-Organifi Gold

-Kion Flex

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Vuori

-Tru Kava

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Jeff Banman or me? Leave your comments at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/bruteforcepodcast and one of us will reply!

News flashes:

• Great parenting tips on gracefully handling conflict and discipline...
• Why early food variety is so important for babies ...
• Movement snacks throughout the day, like pushups and squats, actually make you SMARTER...
• The association between handgrip strength and anti-aging/longevity strikes again...
• Vitamin C + E and cryotherapy combination is a potent recovery stack...
• Does cannabis help or hurt sleep?...
• Great overview of melatonin......
• Correlation does not equal causation...

Listener Q&A:

-Ways to hack the Dolphin "chronotype"...

-How important is detoxification and rest periods?...

-Should you use eye protection with red lights? and How to track micro and macros with a CGM...

Episode sponsors:

-Qualia Mind by Neurohacker

-Kion Colostrum

-Ketone IQ by HVMN

-Thrive Market

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/drloud

I've done plenty of podcasts about "holistic dentistry" in the past.

But when a dentist named Dr. Eniko Loud walked up to me at a health conference and began telling me about a host of issues she saw from across the room - specifically related to my jaw and teeth, I perked up and listened, because I could tell right away she was very smart. Then I went and visited Dr. Loud at her Whole Health Dentistry clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, where she offers functional dentistry and holistic care via advanced dental procedures, health and nutritional coaching for men, women and children. Being trained in functional medicine and equipped with advanced dental training, Dr. Loud implements a host of cutting-edge tools and techniques I'd never heard of before.

Every health issue can be traced back to a problem within one or more of your three body systems. Through targeted lab testing that you can do in the privacy of your own home for each of these systems, Dr. Loud is able to assess how each system is working and design an individualized program to rebalance your body. With an individualized diet plan, a scientifically based supplement program, stress reduction and exercise, a person’s health can improve dramatically –not only physically, but emotionally. With an ongoing wellness plan many health problems can be avoided, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and female hormone imbalances.

Her services include spectrum thermography, safe amalgam removal, biological dentistry, oral surgery, Invisalign and many other advanced but holistic dental protocols.

In this episode, you'll discover:

In this episode, you'll discover:

-Dr. Loud's background and history with holistic dentistry...

-Reviewing Ben's scans from his previous visit...

-The intra oral scanner...

-Undergoing a scan of Ben's mouth in real time...

-Why "optimal dental health" is a misnomer...

-Results of Ben's DNA test...

-An ideal tooth care protocol...

-What occurs after the treatment...

-And much more...

Upcoming Events:

• Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldfitness.com/calendar

Episode sponsors:

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-HigherDOSE

-JOOVV

-Kion

Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Dr. Eniko Loud or myself? Leave a comment at bengreenfieldfitness.com/drloud, and one of us will reply!

Several years ago, Andy Hnilo of the skin care and beauty company Alitura first joined me in the podcast "Deer Placenta Smoothies, Smearing Colostrum On Your Face, How To Use A Clay Mask & Much More."

But Andy's been up to quite a bit since we last connected, including some very cool new formulations, an epic fragrance that I wrote about here, new face scrubs, and plenty more.

Andy Hnilo is a former athlete, model, and actor that had his life turned upside down. On March 20th, 2011, he was struck by a series of large vehicles while crossing a busy street, a trauma that caused seven broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and an extreme compound fracture.

Determined to come back even stronger, Andy was able to be back on the runway in less than 3 months. He was able to heal his skin by immersing himself in a diligent skincare routine that included a mineral-rich blend of four clays, organic superfoods, and nutrient-dense ingredients: a process that healed his body.

Andy is now the founder and CEO of Alitura, which makes life-changing skin care products with organic superfoods.

In this episode, you'll discover:

-How a horrific, disfiguring accident was the precursor to the Alitura products...

-The importance of a 6-hour colostrum from a grass-fed cow...

-Clay face mask the first Alitura product...

-Ben's Wacky Wednesday routine...

-The proper, manly way to use a scrub...

-About the Alitura face Pearl cleanser...

-A serum containing a copper peptide...

-Differentiating between the night cream and the serum...

-The most versatile beard oil on the market...

-The fragrance Ben swears by...

-Ben's response to men who resist the concept of beautifying themselves...

-What's to come from Alitura in the next year or so...

-And much more...

Upcoming Events:

• Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldfitness.com/calendar

Episode sponsors:

-Kion Aminos

-Organifi Red Juice

-Tru Kava

-Butcher Box

Do you have questions, comments, or feedback for Andy Hnilo or me? Leave a comment bengreenfieldfitness.com/aliturapodcast, and one of us will reply!

https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/insubordination

When I first received the book The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively by my guest on today's show, Todd Kashdan, I thought it was going to be some fringe rebel handbook or something like TheAlchemist's Cookbook, or a title that was meant to incite riots and violence.

I was dead wrong.

Instead, this book is a research-based toolbox for anyone who wants to create a world with more justice, creativity, and courage.

For ideas to evolve and for societies to progress, we desperately need rebels to challenge conventional wisdom and improve on it. Unfortunately, most of us fear nonconformists, perceiving them as disloyal, reckless, destructive, or just plain weird. Because most would-be rebels lack the strength and skills to overcome hostile audiences, principled insubordination remains an underleveraged asset in the workplace and public square.

Based on cutting-edge research, The Art of Insubordination is the essential guidebook for anyone seeking to be heard, make a change, and rebel against an unhealthy, stagnant status quo. The book also gives the rest of us the evidence-based strategies we need to become better allies of our leaders in change, ensuring that the best ideas, products, and solutions survive and win the day. Inside this book lie answers to several questions, including:

• What are the most effective ways to express unpopular, important ideas?
• How can we help principled rebels be heard and influential?
• How can we better manage the discomfort when trying to rebel or interacting with a rebel?

Filled with fresh and engaging stories about dissenters in the trenches as well as science that will make you see the world in a different way, The Art of Insubordination is for anyone who wants to see more justice, creativity, inclusion, cultural dynamism, and innovation in the world.

As a Professor of Psychology and a leading educator to the public, Todd Kashdan translates state-of-the-art science for practical application to improve our everyday lives. He is well-known for his energetic and disarming communication style. Todd received the 2010 Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year Award at George Mason University for his teaching and mentoring. He gave a TEDx talk on psychological flexibility and writes the “Curious?” blog for Psychology Today, which is enjoyed by more than four million readers.

After receiving a Ph.D. in clinical psychology (2004), Todd founded the Well-Being Lab at George Mason University which has produced over 210 peer-reviewed journal articles on well-being and resilience, psychological flexibility, meaning and purpose in life, curiosity, and managing social anxiety.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How to define "insubordination"...

-The difference between principled and destructive insubordination...

-Five principles of persuasion when you're in the minority or demographically disadvantaged...

-How a minority that affects change can avoid the mistakes of the preceding majority...

-The three steps to raising principally insubordinate kids...

-How to teach kids to view themselves as heroes in waiting...

-And much more!

Upcoming Events:

Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldfitness.com/calendar

Episode sponsors:

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-JOOVV

-Ketone IQ by HVMN

-Kion Immune

Do you have questions, thoughts, or feedback for Todd Kashdan or me? Leave your comments at https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/insubordination and one of us will reply!

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My guest on this podcast, Mansal Denton, also known as "Little Beaver", is the founder of Sacred Hunting, host of the Mansal Denton Podcast, and the subject of an upcoming documentary BELOW THE DROP, which explores our relationship to life and death through hunting. 

Feeling insecure in early life, he chased a woman to Europe, which led him to prison. Struggling with shame and confusion of what it meant to be a man, he found his calling with the sacred art of hunting. He now desires to share this practice with more men.

His indigenous name comes from a Crow Sun Dance chief. His spiritual lineage is derived from six years of mentorship from a Muskogee/Creek medicine man named Will "Star Heart".

What is Sacred Hunting? A practice that leads us back to our origins. A reminder that, for our ancestors, obtaining the food that sustains life was a spiritual act involving bloodshed. A reconnection to nature and the earth that gave us birth. An opportunity for connection and tribal brotherhood. A transformative encounter with death.

Mansal Denton, like the men he leads on wilderness quests, was raised in a culture alienated from its sources of nourishment and sustenance. A youthful indiscretion that led to a prison cell fundamentally altered his life’s trajectory. Here, he shows the power and vitality that the hunt can bring into men’s lives in this perilous time, when rites of passage are notably absent. Sacred Hunting brings the richness of his hunting experience, and that of the men whose journeys he facilitates, into inspirational focus.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How a stint in the clink became a rite of passage for Mansal...

-Ben's preferred style of hunting and why...

-When the hunt took on its sacred form for Mansal...

-An insider's look at the sacred hunting experience...

-Why it's especially empowering that sacred hunts occur with men only...

-How plant medicines can enhance the hunt...

-What occurs after the animal is killed...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Kion Clean Protein

-Lucy Nicotine Gum

-Seed Daily Synbiotic

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Mansal Denton or me? Leave your comments at https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/sacredhuntingpodcast and one of us will reply!

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/benpatrick

Ben Patrick (“Knees Over Toes Guy”), is the coach and founder of the “Athletic Truth Group,” (ATG) a gym and online training service based out of Clearwater Beach, Florida.

Ben overcame debilitating knee and shin pain, as well as subsequent surgeries through a personal journey taking knee and foot strength training means to their fullest potential. Ben transformed his basketball career, going from being continually injured and under-achieving to having a successful junior college stint through improving his own knee health and performance. This culminated for Ben with a scholarship offer to Boston University for basketball, but due to NCAA eligibility rules, Ben turned it down and began training athletes.

Many people have been recommending Ben’s methods as completely transformative in their knee pain, and recently I've begun experimenting with his programs, so though I would have Ben on the show to discuss his very unique approach to healing the knees.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How Ben became involved with treating knee pain...06:50

-Why walking backward is so beneficial to the health of the knees...21:45

-Fundamental knee exercises that can be done anywhere, anytime...37:22

-Why focus on the tibialis muscles and hip flexors...48:57

-Tools and techniques to strengthen the knees...56:16

-Why Ben doesn't heavily focus on the glutes in his program...1:03:47

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-Butcher Box

-Kion Omega

-Optimize

-Organifi 

-JOOVV

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Ben Patrick or me? Leave your comments at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/benpatrick and one of us will reply!

BenGreenfieldFitness.com/mattcookdecember

About two months ago, I had a deep and wide-ranging podcast conversation with Dr. Matthew Cook about COVID and vaccines.

That podcast wound up creating just as many questions as it answered, including the extremely frequent, "Did Ben get vaccinated?" question (for my latest thoughts on that, check out this recent Instagram post

So today, Dr. Matthew Cook is back.

Matt is President and Founder of BioReset™  Medical and Medical Advisor of BioReset Network. He is a board-certified anesthesiologist with over 20 years of experience in practicing medicine, focusing the last 14 years on functional and regenerative medicine. 

His practice, BioReset™  Medical, provides treatments for conditions ranging from pain and complex illness to anti-aging and wellness. He treats some of the most challenging to diagnose and difficult to live with ailments that people suffer from today, including Lyme disease, chronic pain, PTSD, and mycotoxin illness. Dr. Cook’s approach is to use the most non-invasive, natural, and integrative treatments possible.

During our discussion, you’ll discover:

-Ben's "Cook-esque" morning routine...

-What we know about the omicron variant...

-Can you get covid twice?...

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When it comes to passing on important family values and beliefs to future generations, I firmly believe that family traditions are the powerful legacy-building tool in a parent’s toolbox. Traditions, habits, rituals and routines are the glue that stick, the threads that bind and the clasps that hold a family together through the best and worst of times.

As our family discussed in the recent podcast “The Official Greenfield Family Q&A Podcast: Parenting, Cooking, Traditions, Legacy-Building, Family Game Nights & More!,” we recently worked with the wonderful Rich Christiansen of Legado Family Founder, who specializes in helping families identify their core values, then create memorabilia, traditions, rituals, routines, comings and goings all based around those values.

As a result, our family not only now has a “Greenfield Family Playbook” which is a guide that we can pass on to future generations in which all our values and traditions are listed, but we also have a family mission statement, a family crest being designed to hang above our fireplace, a family logo we can print on hats, shirts, mugs, and stickers, and even individual spirit animals and colors for each member of our family.

If you're not already weaving traditions, rituals, routines and an emphasis on legacy into your own family, I encourage you to do so, with or without the help of a professional. It's been a transformative process that will impact the Greenfield family for generations. For more on the Greenfield family's comings and goings, you can also check out GoGreenfields.com here!

To explore this topic even more, I decided to interview Rich for my podcast.

Rich helps families upgrade their relationships through a program consisting of five different modules that include detailed lessons and structures crafted carefully to enhance lasting ties and strengthen bonds. His Legado product revolutionizes the way families reconnect through sharing proven models, real-world experiences, valuable insight, and giving your family engaging activities for all age groups. Build Family Legacies provides the ultimate roadmap to building the best family legacy your family could ever imagine and no other brand can do it better.

Rich and his wife Gaye are the parents of five sons and a daughter they sponsor from Nepal. Together, they also share eight beautiful grandchildren. As a family, they enjoy exploring the outdoors together and always have their eyes set on big adventures.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How the Legato business has evolved to its current form...

-"Dark investments" and how wealth can decimate a family...

-How to begin identifying family values...

-The basic model of the Legado platform...

-Rites of passage and assisting children to "come of age" when they're ready...

-How to foster an entrepreneurial and self-sufficient spirit in children...

-An apology blended with a charter...

-Key traditions Rich recommends...

-And much more...

Episode sponsors:

-JOOVV

-HigherDOSE

-Kion Aminos

-Qualia Mind by Neurohacker

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Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Rich Christiansen or me? Leave your comments at https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/legadopodcast and one of us will reply!

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About two years ago, I had a fascinating podcast discussion with Dr. Barrie Tan, titled "Why Your Vitamin E Supplement Could Be Harming You (& The “One Plant Wonder” Alternative That Could Be The Single Most Powerful Molecule If You’re Stranded On A Desert Island)".

During that discussion, Barrie briefly alluded to a special molecule he was deep in the throes of researching, a molecule that he was convinced could be one of the greatest new compounds that humankind has ever discovered for full-body health. Your body makes this thing on it's own, but your levels drop significantly with age, and thus there are remarkable longevity benefits as well as benefits for muscle protein synthesis, testosterone and hormone regulation, CoQ10 synthesis, and overall structural support for the body, along with reduction in the risk of age-related physical decline.

The name of this molecule is geranylgeraniol, also known as "GG", and could very well be the next supplement Barrie would take to a desert island. After interviewing him, I'm certainly convinced it has great promise and I now plan to start taking it to assess results for myself.

Dr. Barrie Tan is a research scientist with a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry. For the last 35 years, Barrie has immersed himself in the world of Vitamin E (particularly from annatto) and is considered one of the world’s foremost experts credited with discovering a molecule called “tocotrienol” from three major natural sources. That was the topic of our last podcast, which is very much worth a listen, as the molecules we discuss in that show pair with GG like, well, turkey and cranberries.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-The one supplement you should have if stuck on a desert island (Intro w/ Jonathan Lizotte)...

-Why we need to care about this if our bodies make their own GG...

-Specific Functions of GG...

-How the endocrine system relates to GG...

-Bone Health, Vitamin K and GG...

-Forthcoming clinical studies of GG on humans...

-Supplements you can stack with GG...

-Edible and non-edible plants which contain GG...

-Dr. Tan's personal diet and exercise habits...

-And much more!

Episode sponsors:

-CAR.O.L

-Paleo Valley Beef Sticks

-FUM

-Kion

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Dr. Barrie Tan, Jonathan Lizotte or me? Leave your comments at https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/gg and one of us will reply!

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