Heart Hacks, Diet Myths Debunked & Straight Talk About Custom Nutrition with Dylan Gemelli
Boundless Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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In today's episode, Dylan and I explore how your genetics, microbiome, lifestyle, and activity level all play a role in what works best for you. I share my thoughts on carbs (they’re not the enemy!), why the Mediterranean diet is often a solid fallback, and how to customize your approach—whether you’re training like an athlete or just trying to eat well on a budget.
We also get real about fasting: I break down what works for high performers, how to balance longevity with peak performance, and what fasting windows actually make sense if you’re pushing your body hard. From there, we dissect the critical topic of heart health, talking through the difference between stable and unstable plaque, key diagnostic tools, and both natural and pharmaceutical strategies I’ve studied—and used personally—to keep my heart in top shape.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast, |
| 0:05.2 | like why am I just so off every day, every night? |
| 0:10.2 | There is no reason for anyone to say there is one perfect diet for all of humankind. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to the Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:20.8 | 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. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm picky about my cookware. |
| 0:38.0 | Why? |
| 0:38.3 | Well, you probably heard a lot of non-stick cookware still has harmful toxins. |
| 0:42.1 | There was one study by the Ecology Center in California that found 80% of non-stick pans still contain Teflon, which is one of those forever chemical compounds. |
| 0:51.1 | There was also a brand new study that was published in the science of the total environment that found like a single scratch on a nonstick coated pan can release approximately, |
| 0:59.8 | brace yourself, 9,100 plastic particles. So you need some kind of toxin-free cookware that doesn't |
| 1:07.2 | have all these forever chemicals and microplastics and plastic particles in it, |
| 1:12.0 | that's why you need to look into this company called Our Place. Our Place makes completely |
| 1:19.0 | healthy cookware focused on health, sustainability, performance, and ease of use. These are really good |
| 1:25.9 | kitchen products that are actually healthy for you. |
| 1:28.3 | For example, their cookware set would allow you to upgrade your entire kitchen in one fell swoop. |
| 1:34.2 | So it gives you two multifunctional always pans and two perfect pots in many and full sizes. |
| 1:39.6 | This can replace your full, bulky, expensive stack of cookware. |
| 1:42.6 | You can sear, saute, fry, bake, boil, roast, steam, you name it. And I'll tell you in a second, I can save 150 bucks on that. They also have appliances. They have their wonder oven, which is this super cool air fryer meats toaster oven made from stainless steel and glass. They have their iconic. |
| 2:03.9 | This is probably my favorite because I'm super versatile and I like simplicity. |
| 2:05.1 | They're always pan. |
| 2:08.3 | Best selling 10 in one pan for brazing, searing, frying, baking. |
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