089: Ben Greenfield - Biohacking Immunity and Raising Healthy Families
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Ben Greenfield, a biohacker, performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, professional speaker, and New York Times best-selling author, is a returning guest of this podcast.
In his first episode, he dove into how to biohack health by sharing what he does to improve his performance and his overall health using his top principles.
Dr. Anthony Gustin and Ben Greenfield take things a step further in today’s episode by getting into a number of different topics from fortifying the immune system, raising healthy families, unschooling, and so much more.
Ben also gets into what he’s doing to keep his family and his immune system protected during this Covid pandemic and how he’s keeping his physical and mental health strong while being quarantined.
So, when you tune in, you’ll hear more about Ben’s breathwork, cold work, his blood flow restricted training regimen, and his approach to raising a healthy family, among other topics.
If you didn’t catch Ben’s first episode, or you don’t know him, he’s a beast to say the least.
On top of everything mentioned earlier, Ben Greenfield is also a Spartan SGX certified coach, he won NSCA’s Personal Trainer of the Year award in 2008, and he was named one of the top 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness in 2013 and 2014.
He’s also recently launched another book titled, Boundless, which teaches people how to upgrade their brain and optimize their bodies to defy aging.
You’ll hear more about this book and some of Ben’s top principles when you tune into the episode.
Check it out now to learn more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Natural State Podcast. I am your host Dr. Anthony Guston. It is |
| 0:10.1 | my belief that the natural state of any living organism's health and that our artificial |
| 0:14.4 | habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. This show is my attempt to |
| 0:18.7 | dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement, relationships and more to help |
| 0:23.9 | you reclaim your natural state of health in a modern world and show you how to thrive |
| 0:27.8 | in an environment that's stacked against you. If you enjoyed today's show, you can find |
| 0:31.6 | out more details and information at Dr. AnthonyGuston.com. This week I welcome Ben Greenfield |
| 0:38.4 | to the show and we were supposed to be this an Austin person, however we're in lockdown |
| 0:44.1 | a time of the recording still are and we chat a lot about how Ben has been using his own |
| 0:49.0 | philosophies and applying them to his life to keep himself and his family healthy but |
| 0:53.4 | beyond that Ben has already sort of cutting edge when it comes to you you know think fitness, |
| 0:58.7 | health, nutrition, he's been known for a lot of this stuff for a really long period of time |
| 1:01.7 | but we dive into a lot of other things beyond that. So of course we chat about things like |
| 1:05.8 | his training regimen, how his nutrition is changing in breath work, cold work, how you |
| 1:10.3 | can interject these things throughout your day but also you know we dive a little bit about |
| 1:14.4 | how he thinks about raising his kids, how he thinks about developing humans, how he sort |
| 1:20.0 | of has his family approach to living that we never talked about before in which I thought |
| 1:26.0 | was super loonity. So if you guys have a family, think about having a family like I am soon |
| 1:31.6 | then this might be interesting for you beyond what Ben usually chats about which is always |
| 1:35.7 | eliminating them less. So tune in and I hope you guys enjoy. This episode of the Natural |
| 1:41.1 | State podcast is brought to you by ForSigmatic. ForSigmatic is my favorite purveyor of all things |
| 1:47.0 | mushrooms and adaptogens. Not sure why these things are important. Well you can start with |
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