405: How Hard Do You Need To Train For Muscle Gain?, Keto Muscle Building, Protecting Yourself From Pesticides & Much More!
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 2 November 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Q&A Episode
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News Flashes...
- You do NOT need to train to failure to maximize muscle hypertrophy.
- How a ketogenic diet can potentially enhance muscle hypertrophy, or at least, stave off muscle loss.
- Coffee induces autophagy in vivo.
- Dr. Mercola’s “autophagy tea” to take before nightly fast to also limit mTor activation and increase autophagy:
- 1 tsp Pau d’ Arco powdered tea
- ½ tsp hydroxycitrate and garcinia (HCA/Garcinia powder)
- ½ tsp quercetin powder
- ½ tsp glycine powder
- ½ teaspoon chamomile powder
- Lakanto monk fruit sweetener to taste
- Sure, plants can be poisonous, but our ancestors knew what to do about that (more than silly cowboys).
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Listener Q&A:
How To Protect Yourself From Pesticides
Noah asks: I'm 17 years old and I'm really interested in earthing and grounding. I love to walk barefoot on the grass, but a lot of my neighbors use pesticides for their lawns. I was wondering if I should be concerned about these pesticides getting into my skin or other negative effects on my health. (audio quality is very poor on this q if you're looking to cut one)
In my response, I recommend:
- Earthrunners
- Erthe grounding strap
- My podcast with Clint Ober on grounding/earthing
- Dermal Exposure Associated with Occupational End Use of Pesticides and the Role of Protective Measures
Why HRV Results Are Different Between Devices
Marcy asks: I take my HRV every morning, and I use two different apps to do so: Elite HRV, and SweetBeat HRV. Oftentimes, one of the apps will say that I should take a recovery day, while the other app will say that everything is fine and I can workout as normal. Either way, they're not at all synced with their results. Is there something I should be doing, like new baselines with both of the apps? Any insight would be appreciated.
In my response, I recommend:
The Best Sirtuin Activators
Jay asks: I have a bit of a misunderstanding I was hoping you could clear up for me. In your recent podcast with Angelo Keely, you discussed sirtuin-activating compounds. In the same podcast, you also mentioned the Plant Paradox diet and mentioned that sometimes you will put clients on this depending on what they have going on. It was my understanding that sirtuin-activating compounds actually come from natural plant mechanisms that you might be avoiding in the Plant Paradox diet. I was wondering what you might think about this conflict of ideas or perhaps I'm just misunderstanding something?
In my response, I recommend:
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, how hard do you need to train |
| 0:05.8 | for muscle gain, ketogenic muscle building, protecting yourself from pesticides, HRV measurements, |
| 0:13.3 | and much more? |
| 0:15.6 | Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. |
| 0:26.9 | My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:36.1 | So Jay, I got a massage last night. Very nice, lovely, long massage. And I am sore as hell today |
| 0:45.0 | and feel like I have the flu. Are you happy with me? |
| 0:47.4 | No, no. I mean, you get one of these every single week. Why do you think this one was different? |
| 0:52.5 | I think it's because I didn't get a massage for like three weeks and A, you know, she just kind of |
| 0:58.3 | goes deep and you get some of that slight fascial and muscle damage, really. You know, it's like |
| 1:04.7 | freaking elbows that are scalples going up and down my spine. And then a big part of it is, |
| 1:10.7 | you know, your lymphatic system gets pretty flushed out from a massage and it does dump some |
| 1:18.1 | inflammation and some, you know, some metabolic products into your tissues and into your bloodstream |
| 1:23.2 | that can make you feel a little little crappy the next day. So yeah, this feels like you're |
| 1:27.8 | right after. Double cup of coffee morning. Yeah, did you feel it right after? |
| 1:30.6 | No, it's always the next day. I mean, I get wonderful massages, but yeah, every once in a while, |
| 1:36.8 | if I wait too long and I, because my massages are pretty long, right? They're like two and a half |
| 1:41.2 | hours long. And I get them on top of that, a pulsed electro magnetic field table. So it kind of like |
| 1:47.2 | opens and closes your cell channels as you're laying on that thing. And so that amplifies the effect |
| 1:54.2 | a little bit too, I think. So basically, I was electrocuted and had surgery without anesthesia for |
| 1:59.8 | about two and a half hours last night. So that's probably why I feel a little bit this morning. |
| 2:04.1 | And I'm assuming your misused did like some box jumps on your back too that might have something to |
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