What's up, it's Ben Greenfield and if you hear strange whores or clicks or whistles in the background behind

Not today's podcast, but in this introduction for you. It's because I'm at this place called peak brain LA

Yes, I have just started into my first three days of optimizing my brain

I know that sounds like a woo woo term, but literally I did what's called a quantitative electroencephalography

If I can spit that out QEG of my brain and found several areas that could use improvement in terms of everything from

executive function to memory to cognitive processing to

especially something I really want to focus on attention and

distractability and oh hey look a squirrel

No, I'm just kidding

Anyways, though, so so we're retraining my brain

So I'm spending three days here and then I go home with with three months worth of EEG training tools to actually

train my brain both consciously and subconsciously while I start this screen and fly a spaceship

It's kind of like this idea of achieving

you know a lifetime's worth of meditation within several months and it's

Extremely interesting right now all I'm really doing is snapchatting the story

But if you want to check it out if you're listening to this podcast at the time that it comes out

go to Ben Greenfield fitness comm slash snapchat

And you can kind of see what I'm up to and I'm going to be podcasting a very detailed

Podcast about what this all involves and what it is

But if in case you're interested the name of the place that I'm training at is called the peak brain institute

The URL should just be peak brain institute comm so if you live near LA

I believe they're also up in Orange County

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