You're busy, I'm busy, we've got so much going on and if you're anything like me it seems that taking care of my health is the easiest thing for me to push to the back burner.

My guest today, New York Times best-selling author Ben Greenfield, shares with us how to carve out the time for our health, what key metrics we should be tracking, a powerful mindset each of us can implement and how to take a more practical approach to controlling your health.

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Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler and I am the host and founder of Over with Man. I hope all is going well for you as you have by now probably kicked off your week.

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$175 or more. Again, that's order a man.com slash 511 as in 511. Now let me introduce you to my guest today, Mr. Ben Greenfield. I know a lot of you guys know him. He is a beast.

When it comes to the physical events that he's participated in. I actually ran across him in his work. As I've done my own obstacle course races, my endurance event. I've told you a little bit about that. I can tell you that this is a guy who really does put his money where his mouth is. He's a New York times best selling author.

But as you'll hear in this interview, he's also somebody who's willing to do as much as he talks about others doing. He considers himself to be a guinea pig when it comes to health and nutrition, sleep, fitness, you name it. You're going to hear about some of his experiences in this conversation.

And he takes an extremely practical approach to staying on top of his health goals. In fact, as we were conducting this conversation, this interview, he was walking on a treadmill.

And he's here to share with you how some of that practical approach to his health goals will help you become more practical with yours.

Ben, what's going on? Thanks for joining me on the show today.

What is going on? I'm sipping my little bottle of parierre here. My vice of choice. I know it's horrible. I could be doing like a weed and beer, but just parierre. And walking on my treadmill, talking to you.

Good. Well, I'm glad you're here. Man, I know this has been a little bit in the works and I followed you for some time now. So anxious to have our conversation about health and how to be healthier for men.

So that's what we're going to be talking about today. I want to talk with you specifically about.

Yeah, just though. I don't buy it. No, I want all I'll be okay. I think I'll survive.

I want to talk with you about idea of practicality. And I know this is something that's big for you because I think what a lot of guys see, especially those who maybe even want to just start getting off the couch, look at some of these guys and think, oh, I have to take this to the ultimate extreme or I just have to stay here in the practicality side of it.

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