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Behind The Scenes Of The Tim Ferriss Experiment: 15 Pounds Of Muscle, Turmeric Tea, Urban Evasion & More!

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today I present to you a guy who is no stranger to the BenGreenfieldFitness podcast: Tim Ferriss.

Three years ago, Tim appeared on this show with Ray Cronise in the episode "Tim Ferriss and Ray Cronise Explain How To Manipulate Your Body’s Temperature To Burn More Fat".

Two years ago, he returned with the "Tim Ferriss Cold Thermogenesis Episode".

And now Tim is back, because believe it or not, he knows how to do more than just freeze his balls off. As a matter of fact, the relentless self-experimenter, author and now TV star has just launched the highly entertaining Tim Ferriss Experiment, which you can get now on iTunes.

So far, I've watched the tactical shooting episode and the rock n' roll drumming episode, and I've queued up the urban escape and evasion episode next.

But Tim is also up to other things. Like eating copious amounts of cheese. And that's where we start in this discussion with Tim, in which you'll discover: -Why Tim is experimenting with ketosis... -How Tim recently put on 15 pounds of muscle... -Why Tim isn't tracking variables like sleep or heart rate variability... -Which smart drugs Tim used to accelerate learning during the Tim Ferriss experiment... -Why Tim ensures there is some kind of potentially embarrassing outcome when he is learning something new... -Tim's biggest tip to learn to run up a wall Parkour style... -How to evade someone in an urban situation... -Why tactical shooting was one of Tim's favorite episodes... -How Tim is using cold thermogenesis...

Resources from this episode: -The Tim Ferriss Experiment (TV Show on iTunes) -Tim Ferriss and Ray Cronise Explain How To Manipulate Your Body’s Temperature To Burn More Fat (podcast) -Tim Ferriss Cold Thermogenesis Episode (podcast) -Precision Xtra Blood Ketone Monitor (device) -CILTEP (smart drug) -Yerba Mate tea (drink) -Pue-r tea (drink) -Double Kong Parkour move (video) -OnPointTactical (urban escape and evasion course)

Do you have questions, comments or feedback about the Tim Ferriss Experiment? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Ben Greenfield. I just emerged from five days immersed in a wilderness survival

0:06.6

program with my children. And needless to say, I was completely unplugged and didn't

0:12.6

do much podcasting during that time. So in lieu of today's normal podcast, I'm releasing

0:19.3

a special interview with the one and only Tim Ferris. Now, before we get on to that interview,

0:26.1

just a couple of things. First of all, if you're curious about what wilderness survival

0:30.2

camp I was at, go Google the Twin Eagles school, the Twin Eagles school. It's up by

0:37.1

sand point Idaho. It was an amazing experience that I highly recommend, although I am incredibly

0:43.6

scruffy and look like grizzly bear atoms right now. So the next thing is that this podcast

0:49.1

is actually brought to you by Casper mattresses, which I truly appreciate having not slept

0:54.7

on a mattress for the better part of the past week. So what are Casper mattresses? Well,

1:00.6

they're quite unique. They're this new hybrid mattress. I've got one in one of the rooms

1:05.7

in my house. And they're incredibly soft because they combine premium latex foam with

1:11.3

memory foam. But what they've also done, and this might perk up your ears, is they've

1:16.5

cut the cost of dealing with resellers and showrooms. And they've passed that savings

1:21.4

directly on to you. So you can get one of these premium healthy mattresses for a fraction

1:28.6

of the price. So it's obsessively engineered. It has just the right sink. It has just the

1:34.2

right bounce. And here's where you can get a Casper mattress with a risk free trial and

1:39.9

a risk free return policy, meaning that you can sleep on it for a hundred days and just

1:44.5

send it back if you don't like it. So the URL is Casper.com slash Ben and just use promo code

1:52.0

Ben there and you'll get $50 off towards any mattress purchase. That's Casper.com slash Ben

1:58.6

with promo code Ben easy enough. Okay. Now onto today's episode with Tim Ferris in this episode

2:07.4

of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. It is long as you manage your sodium and potassium and so on.

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