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Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 113 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

I recently went on a whirlwind tour of LA for my new book Boundless. Rather than a formal presentation or lecture, I instead did plenty of panels and Q&A's instead, and recorded them all for your listening and educational pleasure!
In the first part of this episode, you'll hear me on a panel with Dr. Darshan Shah of NextHealth, with whom I have collaborated on multiple podcasts, including:

- BGF: 12 Easy & Practical Ways To Upgrade Your Body & Brain (Ben Greenfield’s Live Talk From NextHealth In LA!)

- Forefront by NextHealth: "Optimizing Your Body Mind and Soul" with Ben Greenfield

After the panel with Dr. Shah, in which we discussed sleep, habits, routines, rituals, longevity, biohacking, parenting, spirituality and much more, you'll hear the Q&A we recorded at that same event.
In the second part of this episode, you'll hear a separate Q&A recorded at the second book launch party at The Bungalow, in which we cover deep sleep, REM sleep, sex hacking, plant medicine and psychedelics, NAD best practices, sirtuins and a host of other interesting topics.
If you haven't yet purchased your copy of Boundless, you can grab it here.

In this two part episode, you'll discover:

Part 1: Panel and Q&A w/ Darshan Shah

-Darshan and Ben discuss the process of writing Boundless...6:13

  • "I wanted a book I wanted to read"
  • Readwise app
  • Originally 10 chapters on brain, body, spirit

-Tips on biohacking your sleep...10:00

-Hints on personalizing your diet...17:15

-The importance of spiritual connectedness...28:06

-How Ben helps mold the well-being of his two boys...31:34

-How to fight EMF's and hidden toxins in an urban environment...37:00

  • Calcium influx in the cell membrane
  • DNA and protein damage
  • Down regulation of NF-kB pathway (Fasting and ketosis upregulate NF-kB pathway)
  • NAD and sirtuins help repair DNA

-Audience Q&A...40:37

Part 2: Talk at The Bungalow in Santa Monica

-The 3 things that Ben uses at home every single day...1:02:33

-How to maximize deep sleep when everything else has failed...1:11:06

  • Pay attention to core temperature
  • Cold shower before bed
  • Warm socks in bed actually cools the body
  • Higher doses of CBD (300-600 mg)
  • High dose of melatonin (Dr. John Lieurance of Advanced Biome Corp.)

-Long-term effects of psychedelics...1:15:50

  • Serotonin imbalances, dopamine issues, etc.
  • Quarterly journey on psychedelics
  • Be aware of replenishment, and cautious with frequency of use
  • Limited alcohol and meat consumption prior to use
  • Socially acceptable, but overuse is a problem due to accessibility and lack of knowledge
  • Be aware of the effects it will have on your body
  • Pause meditation app

-Effectiveness of NAD...1:22:30

-Tips on improving fitful sleep...1:26:00

-How to help with bladder issues at night...1:29:10

-How to calculate proper protein absorption...1:32:10

  • Most people can absorb a max of 40 grams of protein in one sitting
  • On lower activity days, less protein and vice versa for higher activity

-How to lower A1C levels...

-Up and coming peptides to watch...1:39:03

-How to keep things hot in bed as you age...1:43:37

Resources from this episode:

- Rocky Roots Music
- Greenmed Info website

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Got a question for me about what I talked about in this episode? Leave a comment below and I'll reply!

Transcript

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0:00.0

On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, I think that's a huge, huge

0:06.8

part of this and for me I would say it's the past two years that the lightbulbs

0:11.3

really really gone on but you just need to be careful and you need to be

0:16.0

intentional things such as meditation and breath work that can take you to a

0:21.3

very similar place. Like yeah I have a podcast and I have a voice and I create a

0:25.8

platform for myself where I can tell people things but I'll tell you what I

0:30.6

tell my kids.

0:31.8

Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking and much

0:41.6

more. My name is Ben Greenfield welcome to the show.

0:47.8

Hey folks, what's up? I recently went on a whirlwind tour of LA as part of a

0:58.3

launch for my new book, Boundless and did a ton of panels and Q&As and I

1:04.6

recorded them all for your listening and your educational pleasure. In the

1:09.5

first part of this episode you're going to hear me on a panel with Dr.

1:13.7

Darshan Shaw of Next Health who I've been with on a bunch of other podcasts

1:19.7

that I'll link to in the show notes and during that panel you hear about sleep

1:24.5

habits and routines, rituals, longevity, biohacking, parenting, spirituality and a

1:31.7

whole lot more and then in the second part of this episode you'll hear a

1:36.0

separate Q&A at the book launch party at the bungalow in which we cover deep

1:41.4

sleep and REM sleep and sex hacking and plant medicine, psychedelics, NAD

1:46.8

sertuins, a host of other interesting topics. So everything that you hear, the

1:52.9

show notes are going to be at bengreenfieldfitness.com slash boundless LA.

1:58.3

That's bengreenfieldfitness.com slash boundless LA and of course the book is

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