In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, why you should eat your carbohydrates

at night is earthing or grounding dangerous if you live in the USA.

Can cold therapy be bad for you if you're sick and much more?

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

My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show.

Well hey folks, this threatens to be a pretty lonely show. Lonely, lonely lonely. Why?

Because my entire house got dumped on by a snowstorm last night. So my usual podcast sidekick,

Dr. J. Wiles is unfortunately unable to join me because I have no internet.

On the flip side, I'm not being bombarded by any EMF or Wi-Fi. This entire podcast episode,

because I have no internet. So there's that. You should see me actually. I'm not only

do I have no internet, but as I'm recording this for you, I am hooked up to something that we're

going to talk about on today's show. I say, we, I mean I, that I'm going to talk about on today's show.

I got a bunch of questions after I interviewed this cat Clint Ober about grounding and

earthing. To me, that was a mind blowing episode. And my kids watch his documentary and they've been

going everywhere barefoot. I have been grounded using one of his grounding mats at my desk for

every single episode I record. Not only that, I've got a giant cable going out the door of my office,

plugged in the a stake into the ground. And then I have a grounding patch coming off of that

stake. And it's actually attached to me. I specifically have it on my stomach right now

while I'm recording this podcast. So I am shock-ful of negative ions. And if as you would find out,

if you go and listen to that podcast with Clint Ober, you're familiar with earthing or grounding,

then you know that this means I'm sucking up a bunch of negative ions from the planet earth.

Same as if I were outside barefoot, not inside my office in front of a computer. And because of

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