A “Hack” For Making Ultraprocessed Foods Less Unhealthy, Eating “Wild Foods,” What Sports Make You Smarter (And Increase Longevity) & More: Solosode #493

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this fascinating solosode, you'll receive a range of practical hacks and cutting-edge research to elevate your health, fitness, and mental performance. The episode kicks off with an unexpected experiment featuring retatrutide—a triple-action peptide that targets multiple hunger and metabolism pathways. You'll explore the nuances of microdosing retatrutide, and I'll reveal how tiny tweaks in dosing can yield powerful effects on appetite, cognition, and even social behavior around food.

This is an episode brimming with actionable takeaways, emerging science, and a healthy dose of curiosity—poised to ignite your journey to a more complete, boundless you.

Full show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/493

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0:00.0	In this episode of The Boundless Life Show, a hack for making ultra-processed foods less unhealthy, eating wild foods.
0:08.9	What sports make you smarter and a whole lot more?
0:12.5	Welcome to The Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield.
0:17.0	I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond.
0:33.1	I like gummies and I like muscles.
0:36.4	I am not going to advertise gummy muscles. What I am going to advertise here are gummies and I like muscles. I am not going to advertise gummy muscles.
0:39.5	What I am going to advertise here are gummies that help your muscles.
0:44.8	Eurolithna is this compound that's been shown clinically now in human trials to improve your muscular
0:50.2	strength and endurance.
0:52.0	And this company timeline has now figured out how to get you six times more urolithine
0:56.9	than what you would find in a glass of, say, pomegranate juice in their strawberry gummies,
1:01.8	and they taste incredible.
1:03.4	I put four every day in my smoothie.
1:05.2	So I'm getting like a thousand milligrams of urolithin A, which, by the way, is what's been
1:09.8	shown in research to be how much you need. It's been shown to increase muscle strength by up to 12% after using it for 16 weeks. Muscle endurance by up to 17%. That's a lot. After eight weeks, and even better recovery after exercise. These gummies are vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, sugar-free, naturally sweetened with stevia. NSF certified, so you can use them if you're like an athlete. You're going to the Olympics, take your strawberry gummies with you. They taste good and they have your Lothanae in them, and Timeline has crushed you with these. You get 20% off. There's never been a better time to experience the benefits of mitope here in wonderful
1:44.6	strawberry flavor. Go to timeline.com slash Ben and use my code, Ben 20, check out to save today.
1:52.7	Welcome to today's show. I'm probably still picking my morning smoothie, cacao nibs and coconut flakes
1:59.5	and bee pollen, all three.
2:01.2	And Sheila's eat gummies out of my teeth.
2:03.4	It's kind of weird.
2:04.3	I actually haven't been that hungry for my post-workout morning smoothie for about the past
2:10.6	two weeks, probably because after hearing so much about the so-called preotropic effects,
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