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Ben Greenfield Life

Q&A 406: Recovery & Injury Hacks, The Best Way To Combine Sauna & Cold, How To Know If Your Nervous System Is Recovered & Much More!

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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How To Know If Your Nervous System Is Recovered...33:00

Carmen from Germany asks: You've talked a lot recently about recovery, and it seems it's all about physical recovery. I want to know about nervous system recovery. My body recovers pretty well from training volume and intensity, but I want to know how would you measure nervous system recovery aside from overall well being and HRV?

In my response, I recommend:

Fast Ways To Support Achilles Tendonitis...49:15

Dasha from Australia asks: Are there any supplements or peptides I can take that will improve my condition of Achilles Tendonitis I've developed because of running?

In my response, I recommend:

The Best Way To Combine Sauna & Cold...1:03:00

Matt asks: I hear you talk a lot about cold exposure and sauna use, and how both can be good in the mornings. I was wondering if there is a particular order that works best, or if you should even do them in the same day, and how long you should wait in-between each session. I'm a very active person, I train in Muay Thai jiu-jitsu 5-6 days per week, and am looking for the best possible recovery protocol.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Show, recovery and injury hacks, the best

0:09.8

way to combine sauna and cold, how to know if your nervous system is recovered and much

0:15.1

more.

0:16.1

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

0:27.4

My name is Ben Greenfield.

0:29.5

Welcome to the show.

0:37.7

I am so sorry I'm late to record today's podcast Jay.

0:42.0

I have had a fiasco occur.

0:44.2

Dude, I've been sitting here watching my life just pass by waiting on your ass.

0:51.4

My twin boys are outside cleaning up the disaster that ensued when I had them holding

0:57.0

up in the brining bags for our turkey for tomorrow's Thanksgiving dinner.

1:01.3

It turns out you don't want to buy the cheap ass brine bags from Rosars because one

1:06.7

brine bag made it through the entire brine.

1:10.1

The other brine bag burst open.

1:11.7

There's about two and a half gallons of apple cider vinegar, honey molasses, salt, lemon,

1:18.3

garlic, peppercorns, and I think that's about it.

1:23.0

I think that's everything.

1:24.8

That's on the garage floor right now.

1:26.3

The one turkey is happily brining.

1:28.6

The other one will not have the crispy, lovely brown skin that it was originally intended

1:35.5

to have until I slip up and brine it later.

1:37.7

That's what you record.

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