In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast, my take on the new fat-loss drug craze,

foods that look like the organ they heal, long health hacks, toilet pooping tips, and much more.

Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and a whole lot more.

Welcome to the show.

Well folks, I'm back. I'm back from my extended tour of Europe.

I went over there to speak at the Fantastic Help Optimization Summit in London.

I managed to escape the UK without having one single serving of fish and chips.

Don't know how I pulled that off. And then I went to Italy.

I took my family to Italy, and we rode our bicycles through Tuscany for 12 days.

We rode anywhere from 25 to 40 miles a day, and despite eating cake or tort, I believe they call it torta.

Cake for breakfast, gelato, most days for lunch, and many, many servings of pasta for dinner.

I think I've lost about 7 pounds. People say that they can tolerate the carbohydrates in Europe sometimes,

or the wheat in Italian, pasta, and bread better than they can in the US.

Yeah, that's true. They don't breed the wheat over there for high-yield crop in the same way that they do in the US.

So you see a little bit less gluten concentration.

There's a little bit less glyphosate and rampant herbicide and pesticide usage,

which may also make the carbon take a little bit friendlier to the gut.

And I think there's something to be said for the fact that many people when they are vacationing

in a place like Italy are also under less stress.

And so there's probably a little less sympathetic activation of things like leaky gut syndrome, digestive issues, etc.

There's something to be said for all of that, but I think there's also something to be said for the fact

that exercise trumps just about any macronutrient ratio,

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