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Ben Greenfield Life

An Anti-Aging Chat With A 65-Year-Old Finnish Businessman Who Plays Tennis Left & Right Handed, Defies Modern "Unhealthy" Clothing Fashion & Invented The Most Unique Chair In The World.

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

At last year's Biohackers’ Summit in London, I met an intriguing 65 year old man named Veli-Jussi Jalkanen. T

his guy goes by the nickname "Vessi", and he is one of the most physically talented older men I've ever met in my life. He competes in several sports on a national and competitive level, including shooting, military 3-skill sport, diving and sprinting. He also rides horses, plays tennis both left-handed and right-handed, swims, skis, skin-dives, walks extremely long distances and swing dances. The guy can crank out 25 pullups, speaks multiple languages, owns several multinational corporations and looks like he's about 40 years old. Velli's primary business is the Finnish company "Salli Systems" which develops ergonomically friendly furniture based on some very unique sitting concepts, like his "Salli Saddle Chair" (a unique seat modeled after horse-riding techniques) and electrically adjustable tables with elbow and wrist support.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Why Vessi only spends about 10% of his day in a standing position, and what he does the rest of the time...[7:45]

-How a desk can automatically detect whether you're typing or reading...[8:50]

-How a saddle chair allows you to sit but "fools" your body into thinking you are standing...[10:50]

-Why clothing is an unfriendly nuisance to your body (and the sitting-friendly clothing that Vessi uses)...[16:30]

-How Vessi gets away with not wearing underwear all day long...[18:45]

-Why you really don't need a backrest behind your chair...[23:10]

-How Vessi taught himself how to play tennis with both his right and left hand...[27:20] -The 6 toys that Vessi keeps in his office to stay fit...[35:30]

-Why Velli eats so many berries, and only one specific type of grain...[43:00]

-How Vessi healed himself of osteoarthritis...[50:25]

-And much more!

Resources from this episode: -Salli's website BackDesigns.com (use code BGF2016) -The November 18 Biohackers’ Summit in Helsinki, Finland (use 10% discount code BEN) -The Luxe Bidet Ben uses -The JOOVV light Ben now uses to "shine on his balls" for testosterone -The MOGO Upright stool Ben mentions -The JABRA 930 headset

Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Veli or me? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? It's Ben Greenfield and early morning here at the Greenfield home and my hair is completely covered with paste.

0:09.3

As are my ears, it's a special paste called a polyethylene-20-seedle ether, which assists with the conductivity of electrodes that I have attached to my head.

0:21.7

It's called neurodiagnostic electrode paste.

0:25.9

And for those of you who haven't heard, I'm about two months in to a pretty intense neurofeedback protocol that I learned down in Los Angeles from, frankly, one of the smartest neuroscientists on the face of the planet down there, Dr. Andrew Hill.

0:42.9

And the interesting thing is that the same folks who design this entire EMG electrical brain stimulation, neurofeedback type of training that I've been doing, they also created a special formula, a formula called true brain, which is based on neurotech data collected from people's brain waves as they do these tests.

1:11.1

And they put together a bunch of ingredients that support the biology of neural pathways, things called neuropeptides.

1:19.4

Now, if you haven't heard of neuropeptides before, basically these are proteins that are involved with replenishing the raw materials that your brain naturally consumes when your brain is processing.

1:31.2

So when you replenish neuropeptides at a fast enough rate, it does things like helps you overcome mental blocks and procrastination and improves your verbal fluency.

1:44.2

So there's all sorts of cool little things that happen when you get this stuff in your body and know you don't have to have electrodes attached to your head to do it.

1:51.2

In addition to these capsules and drinks that they've designed to help with things like mental block and procrastination and verbal fluency and distractability and sleep onset and everything else that can occur when you supply your body with the proper precursors for neuropeptides and neuronal firing, they've added a DHA, which is from an LG-based source to support healthy fats to be available to the brain.

2:19.5

They've actually validated the drinks with the wearable technology, they've added a bunch of amino acids, and then they've also put in extra what are called neutropics.

2:28.9

So you'll find things like oxyrasetam, peracetam, el-thienine, urodine, something called centrofenoxine.

2:36.7

It's one of the more advanced neutropic slash smart drug-esque compounds that I think I've ever seen. You can get it in a drink form.

2:45.8

You can get it in a capsule form. They even have little smart drug sticks that you can put into your coffee.

2:51.5

And the idea is that these fit in where caffeine and stimulants fail. So rather than experiencing burnout and disrupted sleep and adrenal fatigue, the idea is that in a completely non-toxic way, right,

3:04.7

like not like modafinolar adorol, you actually get these compounds into your body that allow you to get your brain firing the way it's supposed to, to avoid distractions, to sleep better, etc, etc, etc.

3:20.0

All the things that happen when you give your brain what it needs. So how do you get this stuff? It's pretty simple.

3:26.1

They're offering everybody listening to this podcast episode a 20% discount. And the way that you get that discount is you use code Ben, B-E-N, at checkout.

3:36.4

Use code Ben at checkout to save 20% over at truebrain.com, t-r-u-brain.com.

3:44.6

Now, I need to go clean the electrode paste out of my hair. So I will leave the interview to you with one of the most interesting guys. I think I've ever had on the show.

3:56.1

Enjoy. In this episode of Ben, we're from Finnish show.

3:59.1

In my company, if nobody is sitting in this strong radiation field, so you should avoid long stays in this kind of strong feet, because that's very bad for your health, especially bad for your joints.

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