On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, the average increase in

antibiotic hormones for the fast-burgring group was 42% and at the same time their

average decrease in stress and inflammation hormones like cortisol and

estardol was actually 69%. So it really is sort of the ultimate complement to

any existing strength training regime in optimizing your hormones for better

performance, better gains, and better recovery.

Performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. My

name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show.

Oh, oh, yeah, hello. You guys are constantly asking what kind of gum I chew. I

should probably spit out this gum. So rude of me chewing gum during an

intimate conversation in your earbuds. I used to chew a lot of nicotine gum.

Actually, I was chewing that Lucy stuff for a long time. I still occasionally will

hit a like a two or four milligram piece of nicotine gum, but I decided that I

want to be in control of my body and not be addicted to anything except maybe

coffee, I guess. So I switched. And now I'm using gum that is admittedly kind of

expensive, but I used it to lean myself off of nicotine gum because it kind of gives

me this little metabolic high. It's marketed as weight loss gum, but you may have

heard me talk about what's it called, mastic gum before, which is frankincense,

frankincense resin, which I learned about from the guy who ran the 50

marathons and 50 days and then ran the Spartan marathon in Greece, Dean

Carnazis. He chewed on this gum to keep his saliva kind of like lubed in his mouth.

And this this gum I'm not sure who's called sleek SLIQUE sleek. And it's

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