Hey, it's Ben Greenfield. I need to give you a medical disclaimer because what you are about to hear

is a pretty deep dive into my own blood work and biomarkers. And I like to reveal these to you

so that you can see and understand what happens when you test your blood and what's going on with my data

so that you can learn a little bit more about how to optimize your own blood and biomarkers. But I'm not a doctor.

I don't want you to misconstrue this as medical advice. I'm not a physician. I am a, well, I'm an exercise

physiologist and I've got a degree in human nutrition, biomechanics, and exercise physiology.

Master's degree in that. I've got a degree in nutrition. I have a personal training and a strength

addition coach certification. I've spent a couple of decades taking deep dives into biology and

biomarkers and took a lot of 400 level classes in university on microbiology and biochemistry

and everything necessary to kind of interpret what you're about to hear. But I'm not a doctor.

So I don't take anything that you're about to hear as medical advice because you may die.

As they said once when I signed up for a Spartan race, that was what it actually said. You may die.

And I signed anyways and I did it. So anyways, that is all I wanted to tell you before I also give

you a couple of other things prior to jumping into today's show. First of all, I was traveling. I was

in California last week and I had alcohol. I didn't have a lot of alcohol. I had a couple glasses

of wine with dinner, but I wasn't sure of the source of the wine. So what I did was I ate my toothpaste.

I ate my toothpaste. I'm not kidding. I travel with this toothpaste that is comprised of calcium

bentonite among other things. It's calcium bentonite, a little bit of essential oils like peppermint and

cacao, some MCT oils actually, which can do a pretty good job at cleaning your mouth because

of the derived from coconut. And then a bit of stevia for flavoring. And I did not have my

charcoal coconut capsules with me. So I instead ate a dab of my toothpaste and it worked really well.

I woke up feeling pretty good. I also dab this stuff on insect bites and it sucks the toxins out of

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