631: The #1 Biohack Is Free (And It's Not Diet or Exercise) with Ben Greenfield
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Imagine that you've spent years optimizing your health, dialing in your routines, pushing yourself to the limit, and doing everything right, but something still feels missing.
In this conversation, we explore what it really means to live well and in alignment, along with the biohacks and daily habits, and how to approach your diet in a way that actually improves your health and well-being.
Today, I'm sitting down with my good friend, Ben Greenfield. Ben is a bestselling author, speaker, and world-renowned expert in biohacking and longevity, who has spent decades at the highest level of health, fitness, and human performance. But what makes this conversation so powerful is how his perspective has evolved—from extreme performance and optimization to a more meaningful, balanced, and intentional way of living focused on family, relationships, and legacy.
We also dive into how to approach testing your body, from blood work to hormones, including what to focus on for long-term health and cancer prevention. And beyond physical health, Ben shares the powerful rites of passage he's created for his sons and how intentionally instilling family values can shape confidence, independence, and purpose for generations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Living Fully vs Chasing Longevity
- Rites of Passage for Parents & Kids
- Pros and Cons of Plant Medicines
- The Passage Into Adulthood & Learning Responsibility
- Why Most Young Men Struggle with Manhood
- The Value of Creating a Family Constitution
- What Kickstarted Ben's Journey in Biohealth
- How to Think About AI Will Reshape the Future
- The Problems With Too Much Exercise
- Super Slow Strength Training Explained
- Ideal HIIT, VO2 Max, and Cardio Intervals
- Simple Fasting Methods to Burn Fat & Lose Weight
- Ben's Advice for Creating the Optimal Diet
- Cost-Effective Ways to Get Health Tests Done
- Function Health: How To Get to Started
- The Most Underrated Health & Fitness Habit
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, |
| 0:16.6 | as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals |
| 0:21.9 | themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what |
| 0:26.3 | you need to do to do the same. |
| 0:28.0 | Ready? |
| 0:28.5 | Here we go. |
| 0:36.9 | Today, I'm sitting down with someone who has been at the forefront of health performance |
| 0:40.5 | and what is possible for the human body for well over a decade. |
| 0:45.3 | Ben Greenfield is a world-renowned biohacker, bestselling author, former elite endurance athlete, |
| 0:50.4 | and one of the most sought after experts in optimizing energy, longevity, and |
| 0:55.3 | overall well-being. But beyond all their credentials, what I appreciate most about Ben |
| 1:00.1 | is that he's not just about pushing limits. He's about living well and living aligned, |
| 1:05.6 | especially as a husband and father. And that is where we start the podcast today. In this |
| 1:09.7 | conversation, we're going above the surface and below the surface. We're talking about what matters most |
| 1:15.3 | of him right now, how his views on exercise have evolved from high-intensity training to a more |
| 1:21.1 | sustainable approach that the rest of us can implement in our life. And what he believes is the |
| 1:26.0 | optimal human diet in which biohacks actually |
| 1:28.8 | move the needle versus ones that just sound cool. We'll also get into something that affects all of us |
| 1:34.5 | how to think about testing your body from blood work to hormones in a practical and cost |
| 1:40.6 | effective way and even touch on cancer prevention and what we should all be paying more |
| 1:45.5 | attention to. If you care about your health, your energy, your longevity, and showing up at your |
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