Q&A 419: A New Way To “Spot Reduce” Fat, Are Plant Anti-Nutrients Really That Bad, The Dark Side Of Daylight Saving Time & Much More.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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- Very good read for those of you concerned about so-called “anti-nutrients” in food...5:45
- Be Careful How You Prepare Your Food: Advanced Glycation End Products Shorten Lifespan! Read about it...22:45
- Well, wow. Bodybuilding supplement promotes healthy aging and extends life span, at least in mice (and turns out the stuff is dirt cheap)...28:40
- Spot reduction (AKA “regional fat loss”) appears possible - if you combined explosive resistance training for your “fat” muscle group followed by aerobic endurance training (e.g. jump squats + cycling) Read about it here...32:10
- I could totally get behind this initiative to ditch Daylight Savings Time by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine...35:55
Listener Q&A:
Breathing through the nose vs. through the mouth...48:10
Thomas from Copenhagen, Denmark asks: Many breathing experts, including James Nestor that appeared on your show, advise to exhale through the nose. However, you and your recent writing and other breathing experts advise to exhale through the mouth. Can you please dive into that difference, please?
Simple Detox Tips...1:00:15
Scott asks: I'm an auto technician at a dealership here in Massachusetts. I am routinely exposed to a number of toxins, including, but not limited to, brake dust, cleaning chemicals, carbon monoxide, and more recently, hydrocarbons in the form of gasoline due to a fuel pump recall. I have an N 99 carbon filter mask. I get fresh air whenever possible, and I workout regularly. I've been on point with nutrition. I'm willing to invest in the sauna at some point, but in the meantime, I'd like to know the best way to detoxify from these daily toxins, other than finding a new career.
Blood flow during sauna sessions...1:06:50
Sheldon asks: I just recently listened to your podcast with bodybuilder Milos Sarcev. He mentioned that he takes his essential amino acids, creatine dextrose, pre and during workout to gain muscle mass because of the increased blood flow to the muscles during a workout. My question is, do you get the same benefit by doing the same thing, pre and during a sauna sessions with the increased blood flow?
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, a new way to spot-reduce fat are |
| 0:09.0 | plant anti-nutrients really that bad, the dark side of daylight savings time, and much more. |
| 0:15.9 | Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. |
| 0:27.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:36.0 | Jay, I feel like my head's swollen up like some kind of a freaky Halloween pumpkin right now. |
| 0:41.0 | Dude, it's allergy season, man. No, I don't have allergies. |
| 0:46.0 | I think I've never really had to struggle with allergies, fortunately. Knock on wood. |
| 0:51.0 | No, I was meditating this morning. Usually my whole family meditates together. |
| 0:57.0 | Weird side effects. I know, and everything started to swell. |
| 1:01.0 | The thing is our whole family, we just, we use this little app called a Bide. |
| 1:06.0 | It's really cool. It's like this combination of breath work and prayer and meditation, and it has an option for five minutes or ten minutes or twenty minutes. |
| 1:14.0 | So we all gather as a family, usually around eight a.m. or so before everybody rushes off to do all their stuff, |
| 1:21.0 | they're schooling or work or whatever. We just gather as a family, and we meditate usually for about ten minutes. |
| 1:27.0 | Sometimes outside, if it's cold, we'll be inside by the fireplace or whatever. |
| 1:32.0 | But we're kind of running behind today, and the boys have tennis practice typically on Fridays, which is the day we're recording this. |
| 1:40.0 | So they all went off to tennis, and I'm like left there to meditate by myself. |
| 1:45.0 | All right, well, poor Ben. |
| 1:47.0 | Might as well make this interesting. So one of my friends had given me, he had just gotten back from the Amazon a few weeks ago, |
| 1:54.0 | and he gave me some fresh hoppe, some really good hoppe, which is like the nicotine containing alkaloid that just totally clears your head, blasts your sinuses clean. |
| 2:04.0 | It feels like you're smoking a cigarette up your nostril in terms of the burn that goes all the way back into your brain, |
| 2:10.0 | but it's also incredibly kind of clarifying prior to breathwork or meditation that you feel as though your head goes clear as a bell, |
| 2:18.0 | after the initial 60 seconds, the two minutes or so of intense burning subsides. |
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