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Boundless Life

132 Pound Bow Draws & 3000+ Calories Burnt Per Day: How Fit Were Our Ancestors (& Where Do Plants & Grains vs. A Carnivore or Ketogenic Diet Fit In)?

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to diet, water, medicine, awareness, nature immersion, movement, hormesis, community, and ancestral technologies, not many folks know quite as much as my guest on today's show: Arthur Haines. Arthur is a Maine hunting and recreation...

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0:00.0

There's no doubt we have some really amazing qualities today, but the fact is that we do

0:08.6

display these features, our digestion, our nutrient needs and so on are all based on these

0:15.5

evolutionary exposures that happened over this period of over 300,000 years.

0:21.0

Diet can be an actual therapy that allows us to live this free life where we're not connected

0:27.6

to the pharmacies and that sovereignty is really wonderful to be free of that.

0:31.9

I have a master's degree in physiology, biomechanics and human nutrition. I've spent the past two

0:37.2

decades competing in some of the most massacistic events on the planet, from seal-fit

0:41.3

cacoro, spardanagogy and the world's toughest motor to 13 Iron Man triathlons, brutal bohunts,

0:47.0

adventure races, spearfishing, plant foraging, freediving, bodybuilding, and beyond. I combine

0:51.9

this intense time in the trenches with a blend of ancestral wisdom and modern science,

0:56.8

search the globe for the world's top experts and performance, fat loss, recovery, hormones,

1:01.8

brain, beauty, and brawn to deliver you this podcast. Everything you need to know to live in a

1:07.9

adventurous, joyful, and fulfilling life. My name is Ben Greenfield. Enjoy the ride.

1:20.1

We've got a good podcast today with my friend Arthur Haines. He wrote a really good book.

1:25.0

I've been wanting to interview this dude for a while. I think you're going to dig it.

1:29.0

We talk about being outside, taking off your pants, getting naked, getting sunlight, throwing

1:34.1

spares at shit. You get the idea. This podcast is actually a special podcast because we just

1:43.7

are about to kick off the five-day meditation challenge we've been working on behind the scenes

1:51.0

at my company, Keon, for quite some time. At the time that this podcast is released,

1:56.1

the meditation challenge begins in two days. We've got folks like Paul Check and Emily Fletcher

2:02.7

coming in to teach live guided meditations. We're going to teach you how to tap into all of the

2:08.6

health-proven benefits of meditation. If you have always wanted to try meditation, you don't know

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