63 Cups Of Coffee A Day & More: Five Simple Things You Can Do to Live a Longer, Healthier Life.
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🗓️ 25 June 2016
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Summary
I received plenty of puzzled comments and inquiries from podcast listeners when, several episodes ago, I mentioned that one could gain a large number of surprising health, longevity and disease preventing benefits by drinking up to 4-6 cups of coffee a day.
What I said in that episode was based on a book I recently read - a book by a Harvard medical researcher named Dr. Sanjiv Chopra. The book, entitled "The Big Five", delves into five simple things you can do to live a longer, healthier life and I actually learned quite a bit about everything from coffee to Vitamin D to nuts and beyond in it. Each of the recommendations outlined in this book has been proven by an overwhelming number of tests, trials, and studies to increase health and lifespan. Dr. Chopra promises that if you adapt the five simple, virtually-free suggestions in his book, you will live a longer and healthier life, guaranteed - without needing the latest expensive supplements, fad diets, jazzy exercise programs, and state-of-the-art gym equipment.
Since I'm all about natural living, anti-aging and longevity, I decided I had to get this guy on the show. Sanjiv Chopra, MD, is Professor of Medicine and served as Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Harvard Medical School for 12 years. He is the James Tullis Firm Chief, Department of Medicine, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Chopra has more than 150 publications and seven books to his credit. Dr. Chopra is Editor-in-Chief of the Hepatology Section of UpToDate, the most widely used electronic textbook in the world subscribed to by more than 850,000 physicians in 149 countries.
He is a sought after motivational speaker across the United States and abroad, addressing diverse audiences on topics related to medicine, leadership, happiness, and living with purpose. Awards bestowed upon Dr. Chopra include.... • The George W. Thorn Award - 1985 • Received the highest accolade from the graduating class of Harvard Medical School, the Excellence in Teaching Award - 1991 • The Robert S. Stone Award - 1995 • American Gastroenterological Association’s Distinguished Educator Award - 2003 • Elected as a Master of the American College of Physicians, a singular honor bestowed to only a select few individuals for being ͞citizen physicians, educational innovators, scientific thinkers and humanists who inspire those around him or her and sets the standards for quality in medicine - 2009 • Recipient of Ellis Island Medal of Honor for “Exemplifying outstanding qualities in both one’s personal and professional lives while continuing to preserve the richness of one’s particular heritage.”–2012
On May 10, 2016, Dr. Chopra released his 8th book titled, The Big Five: Five Simple Things You Can Do to Live a Longer, Healthier Life, and during our discussion about the book, you'll discover:
-The shocking answer to the question Dr. Chopra asks when he's giving a lecture on liver disorders...
-The famous philosopher who drank 60-70 cups of coffee per day...
-Whether it matters if the coffee is caffeinated or decaffeinated...
-The one organ in your body that highly benefits from caffeinated versions of coffee...
-The surprising myth about coffee, blood pressure and heart rate...
-How many cups of coffee you can actually drink per day if you are a pregnant woman...
-How men and women respond differently to coffee, and why...
-Fast caffeine oxidizers vs. slow caffeine oxidizers, and which does not respond to caffeine's effects on exercise...
-Dr. Chopra's thoughts on coffee enemas...
-The effect of coffee on muscle motor units...
-The "world's most expensive coffee" from elephant dung and weasel poop...
-The trick to know if you are getting enough Vitamin D from natural sunlight...
-Why mold in peanuts and coffee may not be as big an issue as you think...
-How meditation affects your telomeres, your cells and your gut...
-And much more...
Resources from this episode: -Weasel poop coffee (Wild Kopi Luwak, the World's Most Exclusive Coffee, Sustainably Sourced From Sumatra, Indonesia) -Black Ivory coffee -Genetically Engineered 'Mighty Mouse' Can Run 6 Kilometers Without Stopping -Coffee Enema 101 article -Maranatha peanut butter -Arrowhead Mills peanut butter -Vitamin D3 + Vitamin K2 droplets -The book "True To Form"
Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Dr. Chopra or me? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply! And be sure to check out Dr. Chopra's book: The Big Five.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? It's Ben Greenfield. Today's podcast discussion is pretty cool. We get it into |
| 0:06.7 | Elephant poop coffee, a mighty mouse that they engineered to live and exercise forever, basically, |
| 0:14.3 | and a ton of other really interesting information. I interview a Harvard medical researcher. I wanted |
| 0:21.8 | to tell you about a couple things though before we jump into today's interview. First of all, |
| 0:27.6 | Mark Pro. There is this device. It is an electrical muscle stimulation device. Not the one that you |
| 0:34.6 | see in the magazines that's supposed to give you a six pack. That's not what this thing is designed |
| 0:38.5 | for. It is designed to move inflammation out of muscle tissue and specifically to recruit muscle |
| 0:45.5 | fibers in a way that's very therapeutic and that very much, much different than like nerve stimulation, |
| 0:52.4 | much different than like intense electrical muscle stimulation. This is something that was |
| 0:57.1 | designed to heal muscles and it's used by everybody from toward a front cyclist to a ton of |
| 1:03.2 | different professional sports teams and it's called the Mark Pro M-A-R-C-Pro. What it does is it |
| 1:10.5 | works the pain and the soreness out of a muscle after workout, but also if you're injured, and this is |
| 1:14.7 | what I do, I'll take the four electrodes surround the injured area and turn it on. It's very, very |
| 1:20.8 | simple to use. You do not have to be an anatomist or a physician and you can't kill yourself with |
| 1:25.6 | this thing either. It's not painful electrical muscle stimulation. You just take it out of the box, |
| 1:30.4 | you put the electrodes on your muscles and you turn it on. That's it. So you get a 5% discount |
| 1:35.5 | on the Mark Pro, which is pretty significant. I think that knocks like 50 bucks off it or so. |
| 1:40.6 | You use Code Ben, B-E-N, at markpro.com. That's code Ben at markpro.com. You can grab yourself one of |
| 1:49.6 | these EMS units. I highly recommend that you add it to your protocol if you exercise or if you |
| 1:56.5 | get injured or if you have a body. This podcast is also brought to you by something I've been eating |
| 2:03.9 | now twice a week. I get two meals a week delivered to my house and my kids and I get to cook these meals |
| 2:09.3 | together because they send you all the ingredients, but then they send you this step-by-step recipe |
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