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The Wellness Mama Podcast

33: How to Create a Natural Home

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Elite athlete and author of Beyond Training, Ben Greenfield, joins me in this podcast to talk about fitness for women, creating a truly natural home from the ground up and providing tips for raising active children.

Ben blogs at BenGreenfieldFitness.com about health, fitness and lifestyle. He lives with his wife and twin boys in Washington state where they sustainably homestead.

Ben’s approach to fitness and lifestyle is unique because he focuses both on elite performance and longevity and core health principles.

In this Episode, we Talk About

  • Ben’s journey and his history as an elite performance athlete
  • The mistakes that women make when working out
  • Why women and men should work out differently
  • A simple formula that women can use to figure out what type of exercise they should do
  • How the timing of food and carbohydrates can make a big difference for fitness and sleep
  • Ben’s natural home
  • Why Ben doesn’t have Wifi in his house and why he has kill switches on the power in each room
  • Ben’s functional and movement-oriented office
  • How to create an inexpensive (or free) gym in your backyard
  • The best natural air and water filters Ben found
  • The way Ben uses natural light patterns to help his children sleep better and improve their circadian rhythms
  • How hot and cold water therapy are beneficial
  • How to workout with your children (and get a better workout!)
  • Simple steps you can take to improve your health

Resources We Mention

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Katie: Hi and welcome to the “Wellness Mama” podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com. Did you know that exercise was found as effective as some medications in fighting insomnia? Researchers found that staying active and exercising on a regular basis was shown to improve sleep quality and reduce sleep problems. It also obviously is linked to better health in many areas, and even to weight loss and better mental clarity. And today’s guest and I are talking about sleep and exercise.

Today I have Ben Greenfield on the podcast. He’s the author of The New York Times bestseller, “Beyond training.” He and his wife, Jessa, live in Washingto

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to the Wellness Momma Podcast.

0:21.5

I'm Katie from WellnessMomma.com.

0:24.0

Did you know that exercise was sound as effective as sense medications in fighting insomnia?

0:30.3

Researchers found that staying active and exercising on a regular basis was shown to improve sleep quality

0:35.5

and reduce sleep problems.

0:37.2

It also obviously is to better health in many areas and even to weight loss and better mental clarity.

0:43.5

And today's guests and I are talking about sleep and exercise.

0:47.4

Today I have Ben Greenfield on the podcast.

0:49.8

He's the author of The New York Times Best Seller, Beyond Training.

0:53.2

He and his wife, Jessa, live in Washington state with their two twin boys.

0:58.0

Ben is a world renowned expert in fitness and endurance sports as he's managed to hack his own biology

1:04.2

and compete in everything from Iron Man to Spartan races without some of the negative health effects

1:09.6

that often come with that.

1:11.4

And what's less well known is that Ben is also an expert in healthy home setting and natural living.

1:17.4

And he and his wife have an extremely natural house where they built everything from the ground up.

1:22.6

And he's here today to talk about all of these topics of exercise to living in a healthy way

1:28.4

and avoiding a lot of everyday toxins.

1:31.0

Ben, thanks for being here.

1:32.6

Welcome.

1:33.6

Awesome.

1:34.6

Thanks for having me on Katie.

1:35.6

I'll tell you right now I'm sipping some tea.

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