In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, does being overweight help you live longer,

the dark side of fasting, the latest on caffeine and exercise performance,

more clubhouse live, Q&A, and much, much more.

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

My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show.

Jay, I'm feeling kind of guilty right now.

Ooh, this always begs the question as to why. So go for it.

I'm feeling kind of guilty because I did high intensity exercise this morning.

I did the good old school quick and dirty povlsatsaline style Russian kettlebell

workout where you do 10 intense kettlebell swings and then 10 pushups.

I did 10 rounds of that with some nasal breathing on the airdine bicycle in between each.

But the New York Times, hence my guiltiness, just released an article saying too much high intensity exercise,

maybe bad for your health. And now a whole bunch of people have been asking me about that study

and asking me if they should stop their high intensity exercise.

And the subtitle of that article says that that hit, you know,

H-I-I-T high intensity interval training may harm your mitochondria.

The energy generators found in every cell of your body.

And so that's the news on the streets. And I thought just because we have a lot of people

who listen in, who are kind of in the hit, we should probably address this issue.

And that's worth discussing, man. I got sent this article by like three different people

and then I sent it over to you and I was like, let me get Ben's take on this.

Because, you know, I'm sure we're going to get into it.

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