Q&A 462: Ben's Latest Smoothie Recipe, How To Get Your Body To Sleep In Later, Should You Ice Sore Muscles, Do Lifewave Patches Really Work & More.
Boundless Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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News Flashes
- Cheap baking soda hack for exercise performance: Sodium bicarbonate acts by attenuating the suppressive effects of acidosis on muscle contractility and elicits an ergogenic effect on muscular endurance, power, and velocity: Ergogenic Effects of Sodium Bicarbonate on Resistance Exercise: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study - take 0.3 g/kg body weight and you can split it into small doses in the 2 hrs. leading up to a workout (e.g. sipping on bicarb water)...13:27
- How to get your body to sleep in later: Here’s a cool way to reset your circadian clock if you find yourself going to bed later than you want. Go and eat a solid breakfast in the morning rather than fasting or skipping breakfast (bonus points if you can include 30 to 40 g of protein, amino acids, or collagen with that meal). Early Time-Restricted Eating Advances Sleep In Late Sleepers: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial...33:49
- To ice or not to ice? Some claim that icing will inhibit recovery… But here’s the latest science: To Ice or Not To Ice? Icing Can Promote Muscle Regeneration After Mild Injury...47:07
Listener Question
Q: Robbie asks: I'd love for you to look into a company called "LifeWave." I've been into biohacking, nutrition, and fitness (and following you) for some time. I've never had anything make me feel this way. It's a patch that turns on GHK-cu peptide, which in turn stimulates stem cells. I'd like your opinion on the science behind it. He holds patents on the tech... 54:08
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast, how to get your body to sleep in later? |
| 0:06.4 | Should you ice sore muscles? Do life wave patches really work? And much more. |
| 0:17.3 | Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, |
| 0:25.9 | biohacking, and a whole lot more. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:37.6 | All right, I had a fantastic creamy vanilla ice creamy smoothie this morning. |
| 0:42.5 | It was fully ketogenic. See, there is this this meal replacement formula, if you want to call |
| 0:48.8 | at that. It's got 85% fat, 13% protein, ultra low carb, zero sugar, ultra clean, designed for |
| 0:57.3 | shifting your body into ketosis. Following a ketogenic diet and doing so in a very delicious way, |
| 1:04.0 | it's called keto med. It's the first direct to consumer ketogenic and anti-fungal complete |
| 1:09.7 | nutraceutical drink on the market, which is great because I've tested my blood before and I've |
| 1:12.9 | had Candida, Amiest and fungus. And this stuff has not only the full keto profile, but it's anti-fungal |
| 1:19.3 | so it helps your gut out at the same time as you're drinking yourself into ketosis. |
| 1:23.4 | Now, there's a lot of stuff going for this keto med stuff, but they formulated on a very |
| 1:27.4 | scientific level to be the perfect fuel for effectively allowing you to have a meal, but |
| 1:35.8 | staying ketosis, have it burn clean, no crap, good for the gut. A lot of people will use keto med, |
| 1:42.4 | not only as a meal replacement supplement, but as a health solution to help them with things like |
| 1:47.0 | fungal infections, cognitive clarity, fat burning metabolism, blood glucose issues, |
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