I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the

personal growth

personal growth of mind, body, spirit, and work.

Hi, everyone, welcome to this episode of the

Mind Valley Podcast, this is Fishin Lachiani,

and today I'm bringing you the one and only

legendary bio hacker and American athlete Ben Greenfield so Ben is one of the most

remarkable minds in optimizing the body, the brain, sleep, nutrition, metabolic efficiency,

and just about every aspect of ensuring that your body is running like a Ferrari

and not a Ford Pinto. I love Ben's work because Ben has had a massive influence in my life.

For example, Ben was here in Tallinn Estonia Estonia, with his children,

when we were having Mind Valley University.

So Ben's kids were enrolled in our university program,

as was my children, and we'd go out with the kids

and eat at one of Tallinn's incredible restaurants till 9 p.m. every night just enjoying

the beer and the food and those incredible Thailand meals. But then from 9 p.m. to

one p.m. the very next day, Ben would teach me some of his tactics to go on an intermittent

fast to optimize for metabolic efficiency through the right 10 minute exercises in the morning

to adapt my body to a concept called hemosis which is hot cold showering also

that I could enjoy life while still keeping my body lean and ripped just

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