Easy Ways To Get Smarter, The Best Jet Lag Hacks, Why Cold Water Is Better Than Cryotherapy, Weed Before Sleep & Much More

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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0:00.0	My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.
0:04.3	Once you get into cold water, what you're doing is you're getting this massive robust release
0:09.3	of Nauriponephrine. And Nauriponephrine's amazing because it's both a hormone and a neurotransmitter.
0:16.4	So when it's released in the brain as a neurotransmitter, it's involved in vigilance and focus.
0:23.3	And you can actually get a 350% increase in this neurotransmitter when you jump into cold.
0:30.2	That's huge. So you get all this Nauriponephrine. But then you've also got these cold
0:35.7	shock proteins, which are also having an effect on the brain. And I think in terms of
0:41.1	dosage, what you're looking at is you're looking at around five times a week. So that's the only cave
0:46.6	five times a week at like three minutes per session depending on the temperature.
0:55.0	Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living,
1:03.6	biohacking, and a whole lot more. Welcome to the show.
1:08.1	Did you know that there is one part of sleep, one part of the night of sleep, nearly everybody fails
1:20.2	to get enough of? And it's the one part of sleep that's responsible for most of your body's
1:26.0	rejuvenation and repair and hunger and weight loss hormone production and energy and a lot more.
1:32.7	You probably guess is deep sleep, the deep sleep cycle. If you don't get enough of this part,
1:38.0	you probably get cravings. You have a lower than you should metabolism. You can get premature aging
1:45.0	like wearing of the skin, bags under the eyes, wearing of the nails, thinning of the hair, or even
1:52.0	worst conditions like onset of chronic disease. And one big thing that contributes to deep sleep
1:58.2	cycles are your mineral status. Primarily, your magnesium status. So you magnesium increases
2:04.8	something called GABA. That encourages relaxation on a cellular level. It's critical for sleep. It's
2:10.2	an inhibitory neurotransmitter, gamma, immunobutoric acid GABA. Magnesium jacks that up, meaning it also
2:18.0	plays a key role in regulating your body's stress response system. So when you go to bed and you have
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