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How To Rewire Your Brain For Better Sleep, Reset Your Brain's Tolerance To Marijuana & Alcohol, Fly Spaceships With Your Mind & Much More.

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

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Six months ago, I visited the Peak Brain Institute in Los Angeles, California for a special type of advanced brain scan and brain mapping system called a quantified electroencephalography, or “QEEG”… …and I was shocked at what they discovered in my brain. Dr. Andrew Hill, who oversaw the test and who you may remember from my podcasts “Can Weed Really Shrink Your Brain” and “The Little Known Truth About Smart Drugs And Nootropics” (and who you also may have seen on The Joe Rogan Experience, the Smart Drug Smarts show and beyond) discovered some pretty severe patterns of excess stressful beta waves, excess theta waves, and excess delta waves in my brain. What's that mean? Basically, this suggests that I have had some history of concussions and traumatic brain injury (which I indeed have had, in everything from football to mountain biking to kickboxing), as well as built-up deficits of attention, increased distractibility, limited sleep potential and less-than-optimal cognitive performance from life, travel, toxins, head injuries and beyond. Dr. Hill actually explored much of this in a follow-up article he wrote after my scan, entitled "How To Increase Your IQ, Decrease Your Distractibility, Create Better Sleep, Enhance Cognitive Performance & Maximize Your Ability To Enter The Zone." After that initial scan, I hopped on a plane to LA, and went back to the Peak Brain Institute for three days of intensive training to fix my brain, and then I returned from LA with a tiny suitcase full of every piece of neurofeedback technology necessary to transform and rewire my brain. In today's episode with Dr. Andrew Hill, who is one the leading neurofeedback practitioners and peak brain performance coaches in the country, a UCLA trained cognitive neuroscientist, lecturer, entrepreneur, avid biohacker, and host of the soon-to-be released podcast – Head First With Dr. Hill (stay tuned as one of the first episodes is with yours truly)… ….you're going to discover exactly what happened to my brain over my 4 months of over 60 sessions of neurofeedback training, how this method of brain fixing blows any other form of electrical brain stimulation out of the water, and how I felt while going through what is essentially like “meditation on steroids”.

During our discussion, you'll discover: -What Andrew discovered on my initial brain scan...[9:25]

-How I was able to engage in neurofeedback while simultaneously watching Shark Tank...[14:10]

-The difference between a "one channel" design and "two channel" design when it comes to how much you're asking of your brain...[25:50]

-How you can be "doing other things", like typing, and still also at the same time doing neurofeedback and training your brain...[31:00]

-One of Andrew's favorite "kitchen sink" neurofeedback protocols for sleeping like a baby, improving mood, and increasing focus...[33:00]

-How to use neurofeedback to reset alcohol and marijuana tolerance with just one single session...[42:20]

-The shocking results of the second scan that Andrew and I did...[50:15] -And much more!

Resources from this episode: -The Peak Brain Institute -How To Increase Your IQ, Decrease Your Distractibility, Create Better Sleep, Enhance Cognitive Performance & Maximize Your Ability To Enter The Zone. -Can Weed Really Shrink Your Brain? -My pre-brain scan -My post-brain scan

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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up you guys? It's me Ben Greenfield and

0:04.0

This is a really interesting fall-up to an episode. I did a few months ago where I went down to LA and got my brain

0:10.1

Treated to rewire my brain and to reset my brain's tolerance to things like marijuana and alcohol

0:16.0

Not that I use either of those ever and even to learn how to do things like fly spaceships with my mind

0:21.3

Not actual spaceships over your house, but spaceships on a TV screen or a computer screen to allow me to do things like

0:28.2

Increase my alpha brain waves and decrease my beta brain waves. We're gonna jump into all of that in this show

0:34.0

It's fascinating stuff now before we dive in let me tell you about matcha

0:38.3

I don't know if you've heard of matcha before but both matcha and green tea come from this plant native to China

0:43.7

It's called the chamelea plant, but matcha is grown a lot differently

0:47.4

They cover the bushes for 20 to 30 days before they harvest it

0:51.3

Which prevents direct sunlight and that stimulates this enormous increase in chlorophyll levels in the actual

0:58.2

Green tea to get matcha and it's like green tea on steroids

1:01.8

Well, there's this company called Organifi Green Juice now take this matcha green tea and then they blend it with wheat grass

1:08.5

Ashwaganda, turmeric lemon, coconut, beet, mint, spirulina

1:13.5

Everything in the kitchen sink without you actually having to go through all that mess and hop on an airplane around the globe to hunt down

1:20.2

All these crazy superfoods. They do it all for you. It's called green juice gently dried superfood powder made by

1:26.9

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1:30.4

You can add to just about anything including your favorite smoothie if you got a Ben Greenfield fitness comm slash fit life

1:36.5

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1:44.0

Ben

1:45.0

This podcast is also brought to you by something I'm traveling with right now

1:50.0

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