Is Biohacking Bad? Ancestral Living Vs. Modern Science: Should We Return To Our Roots?

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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My life is a little bit...strange. As an immersive journalist, self-experimenter and self-professed “biohacker”, I do relatively unconventional things to upgrade my body and brain. For example, I have this blood glucose monitor installed in my...

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0:00.0	I have a master's degree in physiology, biomechanics, and human nutrition.
0:11.7	I've spent the past two decades competing in some of the most massacistic events on
0:15.6	the planet, from seal-fit, cacoro, spardanagogy, and the world's toughest mudder to 13 Ironman
0:20.6	triathlons, brutal bowhunts, adventure races, spearfishing, plant foraging, freediving, bodybuilding,
0:26.1	and beyond.
0:27.1	I've spent this intense time in the trenches with a blend of ancestral wisdom and modern
0:31.3	science, searched the globe for the world's top experts in performance, fat loss, recovery,
0:36.3	gut hormones, brain, beauty, and brawn to deliver you.
0:39.9	This podcast, everything you need to know to live an adventurous, joyful, and fulfilling
0:45.5	life.
0:46.9	My name is Ben Greenfield.
0:49.6	Enjoy the ride.
0:58.1	Well, hello.
0:59.1	I actually just gave a TED X talk in Corleon Atojo.
1:03.9	Last week, I decided that there were many things I did not have the time.
1:09.5	Gosh darn the TED X. God's dictate that you gotta be 18 minutes long, no more.
1:17.5	And you know me, I can drone and drone.
1:20.5	I'm droneing right now.
1:21.5	Now, but I decided to really, really unpack in detail a lot of the things that I spoke
1:25.9	about in that TED X talk on today's show.
1:29.4	You don't have to have heard the talk because, honestly, everything I talk about in the
1:33.0	talk, I really do discuss in this episode.
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