22: Ben Greenfield - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness

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Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 16 February 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Eric sits down with leading fitness geek, guru, thinker and human guinea-pig Ben Greenfield to learn how one of the world's most highly regarded trainers and fitness experts cuts through the nightmare that is our medical literature.

The academic and medical literature in health and medicine is a disaster. Studies are performed and reported in non-standard and idiosyncratic ways which are then further distorted by a press often looking more for headlines and scoops than facts and rigor. In this episode we get to ask one of the most sought after fitness optimizers how ordinary people can better understand their own minds, brains and bodies in light of the cacophony of 'expert' opinion. Ben, here in his role of master pedagogue, gives detailed implementable answers as well as simple to follow priorities that sum up his years of study and training for the mere mortals who wish to better everything in their lives by tackling health at the fundamental level.

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0:00.0	Hello, you found the portal. I'm here today with my guest in studio Ben Greenfield down
0:13.4	from Washington State. Ben, welcome to the program. Thank you. And hello. And hello, sir.
0:18.7	So you are the first health guest. I think that we've had on the program we can talk about
0:24.1	other things. But you've had healthy guests. We've had health health. Yeah. And what I wanted to
0:32.6	talk to you about is a little bit this issue of how we sort through our bodies and our minds as
0:41.2	mechanical systems. What do we do with integrating the tremendous amount of information? Some of the
0:48.6	literature in the biomedical field is almost unreadable. And it's extremely confusing. You have
0:57.2	small studies. You don't have a lot of discipline across different fields to keep any kind of
1:04.2	interoperability. And so I've always been afraid to end at this space. But you've been recommended
1:10.1	as one of the countries or if not the world's top trainers. You've been an extreme athlete.
1:15.2	You've been studying this from an academic perspective. And you seem the ideal person
1:19.5	to be our jungle guide into the wilds of what is known about us. Aside from the extreme athlete
1:25.1	piece, I don't think massacism lends any any great deal of credibility to one. Aside from a little
1:30.2	bit of time spent testing things like, you know, ketones and carbohydrate mixes and the trenches.
1:35.6	And finding out what might give you explosive diarrhea. But I do love to read. I love to study
1:41.5	this stuff. I've always been a voracious and curious consumer. I just figure if we can profit
1:47.2	from your pain, that seems like a pretty good deal. Well, yeah, maybe a little bit. But yeah,
1:52.2	you're right. It is difficult with closed access to many of these journals and the ability to be
1:58.3	able to review an abstract. And as we were discussing before, we started recording an inability to
2:04.1	determine whether or not a fasting study was done on a male or a female population or whether
2:10.4	or not a headline that might say, vilify red meat is actually looking at at the lifestyle practices
2:19.6	of the people consuming said meat or the the sourcing, you know, process versus unprocessed. There's
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