Hey, what's up?

It's Ben Greenfield.

Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness Show, and I have two things to share with you

before we jump into today's episode with Jesse Lawler of SmartDruckSmartz.

The first is that you're probably used to getting our Q&A episode midweek, but not this

week, no, because I am off getting a tube stuck up my butt.

That's right.

At about the time that you are tuning into this podcast, I'm off undergoing a preventive

colonoscopy.

I will be sure to share all of the nitty gritty details about that and why I'm doing it.

On a future article about colonoscopies and gut health over at Ben GreenfieldFitness.com,

but needless to say, I really am not in any position to be doing a Q&A episode with my

trusty sidekick Brock.

So instead, I'm bringing you this special interview with Jesse.

The second thing is that this episode is brought to you by Casper mattresses.

Now not only are Casper mattresses made in America, but they're made at a shockingly

fair price and they're obsessively engineered.

I've got a Casper mattress in the guest bedroom of my house upstairs from where I sit right

now in my basement podcast recording studio.

It is an amazingly comfortable mattress.

The reason for that is they've got two different technologies in these mattresses, latex foam

and memory foam.

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