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400: How To Wake Up Less At Night, Should You Eat Carbs & Fat Together In The Same Meal?, The Latest On CBD, THC, Exercise & Much More!

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Q&A Episode 400

Have a podcast question for Ben? Click the button at the bottom of the page (or go to SpeakPipe), or use the Contact button in the free Ben Greenfield Fitness app. Click here for some tips on how to have the best chance of having your question featured on the show!

News Flashes...10:15


-Natural Giardia Remedies
-This is pretty cool… It’s why CBD can “wake you up” in the morning, but then a similar dosage at night can enhance sleep and increase Deep Sleep percentages: Read more here.
-BGF podcast w/ Ted Achacoso
-The new “CBD is Toxic To The Liver” study claims are bullshit, and here's why.
-The latest on weed and exercise performance - basically, it may slightly reduce anaerobic performance (e.g. power output while cycling all-out) and may also cause slightly higher inflammation (but these were only VERY slight differences). Read about it here.
-I’m personally pretty happy that alcohol is slowly getting replaced by sexy new alternatives (although I still endorse one healthy glass of wine or healthy cocktail each day, many simply can’t stop at that): Read more

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Listener Q&A:

How To Wake Up Less At Night...34:45

Mike asks: Do you have any advice on improving the restfulness metric in the Oura app? I'm doing well with deep and REM sleep, but it says "pay attention" on restfulness. Do you have any thoughts on why that might be?

The Best Way To Lower Stress During Detoxification...58:05

Kaitlin asks: I've noticed what appear to be signs of impaired or blocked elimination while under psychological and physical stress, specifically acne and PMS. If such a relationship does exist, how could one tamper the effects cortisol has on detoxification and/or support detoxification better under periods of stress?

Should You Eat Carbs & Fat Together In The Same Meal?...1:09:30

Ben asks: So many people say that if you eat carbs alongside fat, you're going to store the fat because of the insulin response from the carbs. However, it seems pretty hard to never mix the two and a meal especially if you're doing strength training with some high intensity and you want to get those calories up. Like for example, when you posted that long article about your muscle mass gains protocol from a few months ago. There were things like extra virgin olive oil alongside tubers and things of that nature. That makes sense to me intuitively, but I was curious if I could get your take on if there's an upper limit on the amount of carbs that is safe to consume alongside fat if you are an active person.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, how to wake up less at night.

0:06.8

Should you eat carbs and fat together in the same meal?

0:09.9

The latest on CBD, THC, exercise, and much more.

0:15.3

Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more.

0:26.8

My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show.

0:35.8

So Jay, how are you doing this morning?

0:37.8

I'm doing pretty well, Ben. How about yourself?

0:40.8

I'm a clinch-in. I'm clinch-in hard, man.

0:43.8

Oh, I'm three days into a bout of giardia that I appear to have contracted during this last weekend's wilderness survival course that I did.

0:55.8

Amongst other things, we made water filters, right, like out of charcoal from the fire and find particles of sand.

1:03.8

It's all that I want to Instagram.

1:05.8

Yeah, and some leaves. It sounds good on paper.

1:09.8

But after three days of drinking from the creek by our campsites, my only suspicion is that at some point,

1:17.8

one of the homemade filters that I made failed are the first batch of water that I kind of allowed to drip through it, didn't completely clean out what was in the water, or what was in the cold or the sand or what I mean,

1:29.8

who knows? It could have been poop particles in the frickin' sand.

1:32.8

I don't know, but I have literally been working, visual for people, podcasting, blogging, book editing, article writing, everything from my bed and the toilet.

1:46.8

So this is the first day I've actually been able to get down into my office. I went on a little light walk in the sunshine this morning, but I'm managing it naturally rather than using the traditional antibiotic regimen for giardia, which actually, I don't think a lot of people know this.

2:05.8

I'll link to, because I've been researching hardcore, not just giardia, but parasites in general, because anytime something like this happens to me, my go-to is I research and figure, hey, hopefully I can give some other people some good advice and figure a few things for myself.

2:21.8

But some of these antibiotics that are traditionally used for giardia can cause, well, almost similar to other antibiotic regimens, not only the emergence of antibiotic resistance, giardia-like organisms, but also recurrence rates that are as high as 90% with a host of pretty nasty side effects.

2:42.8

Metro and Idazali is one or tenet dazali is another and these antibiotics are kind of the go-to traditionally for giardia, but after researching some of the antibiotic regimens, I decided to manage things myself.

2:57.8

And so the idea behind giardia is that you do want to get rid of it pretty quickly, because it can cause some pretty significant damage to the intestinal lumen, meaning that what it does is it damages the intestinal brush border and all these little parasites, you know, as they hatch.

3:18.8

One of the things that they do is they damage and parasites, they cause intestinal hyperpermobility, they cause a reduction in enzyme secretion, and they actually tend to feed to a certain extent on bile in the gut.

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