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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1145: Ben Greenfield on Putting on Several Pounds of Muscle, Living a Long & High Quality Life, Ways to Slow Aging, Unschooling His Sons & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin speak to Ben Greenfield about unschooling his kids, nootropics, putting on several pounds of muscle in just a few months, The Game Changers documentary, aging and more.

  • Discussing a woman’s proper place in the home. (2:10)
  • Ben’s ultimate pesto recipe from plants in your backyard. (4:52)
  • Unschooling his sons: Free thinking, creating creative workers, identifying what you’re passionate about & MORE. (7:28)
  • The importance of being an example to your kids and creating an environment that allows them to cultivate creativity. (15:07)
  • What challenges has he faced so far? (18:03)
  • Fostering resilience and his son's rite of passage. (20:03)
  • How has he incorporated plant medicine into his life? (23:12)
  • Open relationships: Their connection to plant medicines, his take & MORE. (26:07)
  • Why he believes everything was put on the planet for a purpose. (35:17)
  • How Ben got JACKED! (39:50)
  • The guys talk the Game Changers documentary, veganism vs carnivore, figuring out the right diet for you & MORE. (46:24)
  • The overlooked psychological elements of food. (57:00)
  • The proper balance of living a long & high quality of life and acknowledging one's mortality. (1:04:26)
  • What excites him most in the field of anti-aging? (1:08:00)
  • His six variables for mitochondria he addresses with everyone he works with. (1:14:37)
  • Has he ever had something go wrong with any of his bio hacks? (1:17:36)
  • Are his days as an endurance athlete numbered? (1:19:15)

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

Always a good time when Ben Greenfield comes and visits us.

0:16.0

I always don't know what he's going to say though.

0:18.0

You never know.

0:19.0

I actually really enjoyed this conversation.

0:22.0

I couldn't wait to talk to him since he announced that he would be unschooling his kids.

0:29.0

And I didn't even know what unschooling meant until him.

0:32.0

I didn't know this was an option where parents can take kids through a non-curriculum format of taking their kids through school.

0:42.0

I thought that was...

0:43.0

He explained it pretty well.

0:44.0

Yeah, extremely fascinating.

0:46.0

And I couldn't even picture what that would look like until we discussed this with him.

0:50.0

And so I really enjoyed that part of the conversation.

0:53.0

He's one of the smartest people in the fitness space.

0:56.0

He's a little weird.

0:57.0

He's a little out there.

0:58.0

Very, very smart dude.

0:59.0

A lot of integrity.

1:00.0

Good friend of ours.

1:02.0

So every time we have it, this is probably what our four...

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