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The Kris Gethin Podcast

53. Interview with Ben Greenfield

The Kris Gethin Podcast

Kris Gethin

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9598 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

"Do more than the average MD is going to do to get a clear picture of your health." - Ben Greenfield

Ben Greenfield is a biohacker, human body and brain performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, IRONMAN triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, anti-aging consultant, speaker, author of the New York Times bestseller Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health and Life and is the host of the Ben Greenfield Podcast.

With nearly two decades of experience working as a strength and conditioning coach, exercise physiologist and biomechanist, Ben is also the man responsible for maximizing performance, recovery, fat loss, digestion, brain, sleep and hormone optimization for CEO's, ultra-endurance competitors, and a wide variety of professional athletes, including poker champions, tennis players, motocross competitors, the NFL, the NHL, the UFC and beyond.

Tune in to hear Ben's perspective on exercise, why he thinks you should be spending less time in the gym, and his DIY approach to optimizing your health.

Time Stamps

  • How Ben transitioned from being a bodybuilder to an Ironman competitor [10:00]
  • Ben's perspective on exercise [22:00]
  • How to increase your longevity and lifespan while bodybuilding or exercising: start with taking care of your cellular health [27:00]
  • Things athletes or exercise enthusiasts should be aware of that scratch the itch of making their body better without beating their body up [37:00]
  • Ben's travel hacks to beat jet lag [60:00]

Featured Guest: Ben Greenfield

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Episode Sponsor

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, Chris Gathin here. Now, if you're over the age of 35, like myself, your enzyme levels

0:07.7

have already begun to decline. Enzymes are the workhorses of digestion. They break down your

0:14.7

food into usable macro and micronutrients. Now, research shows that the time that someone hits 65 years old, their saliva

0:23.2

and pancreatic secretions, both of which involved in enzyme activity, have declined by as much

0:30.8

as 50%. Now, if you've looked at my Instagram post, my stories, you'll notice that quite often if I'm eating out, if I'm having a steak or something like that, I am eating my mass zimes by bioptimizers.

0:46.2

Now, the reason why I take this is because it has over 102% more protees than the nearest competitor and 300 to 500 more per serving the most popular brands.

1:00.9

Now this is crucial because as us being bodybuilders or athletes, we require a lot of protein.

1:07.8

And it isn't just about how much you eat, it's always how much you absorb.

1:12.7

So you've got to break it down. So not only does the mass enzymes contain more proteins,

1:18.0

it also contains 13 additional enzymes, including lipase for fat digestion, which work at a very

1:26.5

high pH level from 2 to 12, in other words, at every

1:30.6

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1:41.4

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1:48.8

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1:55.4

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2:02.9

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2:13.5

discount of that order.

2:28.8

All right, everybody. Chris Gethen here. Welcome to the Knowledge and Mileage podcast.

2:34.6

We are here in L.A. at a co-working space. Fantastic little joint that we've got here.

2:37.8

And I have a fantastic guest with me.

2:43.3

I feel like it's been, have you seen the documentary on Bill Murray recently?

2:49.2

There's a couple of filmmakers that have followed all these stories of Bill Murray.

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