185: Mimicking ancestral living
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes we over-complicate healthy living. Today, author, coach, and nutrition & fitness expert Ben Greenfield, brings insights on how to improve our health based on ancient wisdom. While Ben is known as a "biohacker," who uses technology and science for peak performance and health, he also has a profound understanding of simple ways that we can mimic the health practices of our ancestors for optimal health.
Ben discusses the benefits of grounding, catching sunlight, and cold exposure, for example, that we can incorporate into everyday health habits, wherever we are today. He shows us how to use modern-day technology to benefit our physical and mental health in this post-industrial world. He shares his own personal hacks that he uses to mitigate exposure to radiation when traveling, not to mention his biggest "dial mover" when it comes to his own health and fitness. In the end, he points us to the ultimate combination of health and life span for the most fulfillment and joy.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of these things we could certainly replicate. You could eat large amounts of folate, go outdoors more, |
| 0:09.0 | mitigate your volume on an MP3 player and just get tuned into the fine frequencies of nature |
| 0:15.1 | to enhance hearing rather than getting an ear planned. |
| 0:17.1 | You can eat high amounts of lutein and ziazanth and karateoids and spend time outside, you know outside shooting a bow or hunting or hiking or doing things |
| 0:26.9 | that allow you to focus on objects both near and far rather than say getting |
| 0:31.4 | getting chlorophyll injected into your eyeballs which is what some of these folks have done or you could learn how to read the sun and read the stars and and get a little bit better idea of how to how to just know intuitively as our |
| 0:47.0 | ancestors would have you know where true north is rather than getting a compass |
| 0:50.5 | installed in your body and so you know there are so many other examples but |
| 0:54.7 | but really you know I I think it's it's pretty common sensical you know it's you look |
| 0:59.9 | at what someone's trying to do as a hacker as a shortcut and there's typically some kind of natural |
| 1:04.7 | alternative that a lot of times I think is a better choice and a choice that allows you to develop |
| 1:09.5 | a more intimate relationship with Mother Earth. From the Westen A Price Foundation, |
| 1:20.0 | welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast |
| 1:22.0 | for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and The Healing Arts. |
| 1:25.8 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. Our guest today is Ben Greenfield. Ben is one of the most influential |
| 1:45.0 | individuals in the health and fitness world. He's the author of New York Times |
| 1:49.1 | Best Seller Beyond Training and the Christian Gratitude Journal. |
| 1:52.8 | A podcaster, blogger, and coach of elite athletes and CEOs, |
| 1:57.0 | Ben has helped thousands improve their performance and health. |
| 2:00.5 | Ben brings to us today some of his insights about how to improve our health |
| 2:04.1 | relying on ancient wisdom and yes biohacking as needed. The term biohacking is |
| 2:09.7 | basically just shorthand for pursuing health using modern technology and science. |
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