My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.

If you're looking to rebuild your life and your life is like symbolically a house that you're trying to build.

You're trying to reconstruct it. You've got this empty lot that needs to be excavated first.

You can bring in the tools and you can bring in the building blocks and you can just throw them in a pile.

And then you don't have a house and you're like, okay, well then I'll just take more of it and throw it in a pile and throw it in a pile.

And then you've got a bigger and bigger pile of rubble that's worse than the clean slate that you had before.

So a house is made out of bricks but a pile of bricks is not a house, right?

So the big piece that is missing in most people's process is the structure, the discipline, the integration.

To take any perspective and any approach that you take and responsibly actively seek to mold it into something that produces more fruit day in and day out.

Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking and a whole lot more.

Welcome to the show.

One of my favorite ways these days to strengthen my immune system and optimize my recovery is by getting in my clear light sauna.

It's a clear light infrared sauna.

Helps you create heat shock proteins that stimulate cell repair and help to rebuild muscles faster and protect against

good gender of diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and most people aren't aware of the essential role that these heat shock proteins play in immune function too,

which is really nice this time of year when their sickness is going around.

It allows your immune system to react more quickly and efficiently to viruses and pathogens.

It helps to inhibit viral replication and decreased levels of inflammatory cytokines while at the same time,

the heat increases nitric oxide production in the body, which also has antiviral effects.

Now what I have at my house is a clear light sanctuary sauna because I can get a whole bunch of my friends in there.

We can sit around, we can chat, we can burn incense and sprinkle essential oils like little hippies all over the place.

But we're also guilt free because all the clear light sauna is unlike many of the sun is out there that basically

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