My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.

So the inspiration for all this for me was the spiritual retreat that I had.

For the first time, I actually saw the connection between nature, humans, and environment.

And I was like, there's got to be a way to replicate this.

And in a non-dangerous, non-threatening way without the use of various pharmaceuticals.

And this was the closest thing we could find.

Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking,

and a whole lot more.

Welcome to the show.

What mattress do I sleep on?

Well, I'm picky.

I'm very picky.

I wanted a mattress that blocks EMF that increases deep sleep cycles based on my actual measurements

that actively cools my body, even if I can't use one of those fancy bed top cooling

thing in the jigs.

Accelerates recovery, something my wife likes and I like, something that is an off-gas,

a bunch of chemicals, something that is designed using your help in mind and nothing else.

No fancy bells or whistles or wifi or gadgets or springs or anything.

Okay, this is like sleeping on the most natural surface imaginable.

They've even done what's called dark film microscopy on people's blood cells when they sleep

on this mattress and it actually allows your blood cells, your freaking blood cells to return

to a natural free flowing state that allows your bloodstream to optimize the oxygen flowing

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