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Ben Greenfield Life

The Latest Research On Longevity, Ketones, Caffeine, Creatine, Sleep, Plant Vs. Animal Protein Intake, My New Book Boundless & Much More!

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In my new book Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging, I reveal a never-before-seen, systematized approach to increasing healthspan and lifespan using a potent combination of ancestral wisdom and modern science.

Three years in the making and complete with over 600 pages of inspiring stories, workout plans, nutrition protocols, and much more, Boundless is the first step-by-step guide for optimizing every element of your life force and obtain true, lasting, boundless energy. You’ll discover how to get smarter, sleep better, build muscle, burn fat, fix your gut, have mind-blowing sex, defy aging and much more.

Fact is, you are far more than average. The power to operate at your full human capacity already exists inside you, just waiting to be unleashed. This book will teach you exactly how.

And I've received plenty of questions about Boundless, including who it's for, what kind of routines and plans are included in it, more specifics on chapter content, and much more. So in this special solosode, I'm not only digging into some of the latest longevity, ketone, caffeine, creatine, sleep and protein research I've discovered lately, but also answering all your burning questions about Boundless, which you can now order here!

During this discussion, you'll discover:

-News Flashes mentioned in this podcast…4:30


-Q&A related to Boundless

-Are there training routines or training plans specifically for losing fat and/or putting on muscle?…35:25

  • Physiological parameters I follow:
    • Mitochondrial density
    • Lactic acid tolerance
    • Fat burning and metabolic efficiency
    • Strength (w/ an eye on longevity)
    • Mobility
  • Refer to Chs. 8, 9, 11

-What type of nutrition plans are discussed in the book?…40:56

-Does the book have info related to gut/intestinal health?…45:15
  • Refer to Chapter 13
  • Yeast and parasites are addressed
  • How to deal w/ insufficient stomach acid
  • Food intolerances (malabsorption)
  • Best tests to use
  • Huge section on mold and mycotoxins

-Is there info on how women can rebalance their hormones?…49:45

  • Ch. 19 is on longevity and anti-aging
  • Recommended doctors and specialists are mentioned
  • Maintaining DHEA levels, use of peptides, etc.

-Does Boundless include recipes?…52:16

-Which chapter is a must for a reader to implement in their lifestyle immediately?…54:06

-Rapid fire questions…58:08

  • Will it be available on Kindle? Yes, but I highly encourage you to get the hard copy.
  • Why is it so expensive? Because it's freaking big, comprehensive, and a work of art.
  • When will the pre-order copy ship? Book launches and orders will ship on 21 Jan.
  • Will it be available in Australia? Yes. Go here to find out how.

-A few insider tips from Boundless…1:02:00

  • Gene repair
  • Little-discussed oils
    • How do fish gain the nutrients which make fish oil efficacious?
    • Plant-based oil
  • Sleep optimization
    • Connection between exercise and sleep
    • 20-30 minutes of aerobic exercise prior to breakfast (especially in the sunshine) can enhance deep sleep levels
    • Training hard in the morning can damage sleep patterns
    • Mid-day 20-40 minutes naps timed 5-7 hours after you wake can negate effects of hard workout in the morning, using devices like Fisher Wallace Circadia, HUMU, Nucalm
    • Finish your workout at least 3 hours before bedtime
    • A few intense 10 minute bouts of exercise can alleviate sleepiness during periods of sleep deprivation
    • Transdermal magnesium can relax the joints quickly
    • Epsom salts or magnesium salts bath
    • Water and Wellness hydrogen tablets

-And much more…

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Ebb sleep headband

Dreem sleep device

Chilipad

Ghee

Ketone Esters

Kion Coffee

MCT Oil

Oura ring

Melatonin suppositories made by Dr. John Lieurance of Advanced Biome Corp.

Go Greenfields cooking podcast

– Book: Dirty Genes by Dr. Ben Lynch

Water and Wellness hydrogen tablets

NuCalm device

– BGF podcasts you might like:

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Got questions for me about the articles I discussed in today's podcast? How about my new book, Boundless? Leave a comment below and I'll answer!

Transcript

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0:00.0

On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, there are certain

0:05.1

physiological parameters that I target in the routines that I write.

0:09.5

Everything from peptides to bioidentical hormones to a lot of these foods that one

0:14.2

can consume, powders you can put in your smoothie to enhance stem cell

0:17.4

mobilization. This is just not a book that they wanted to put some airport

0:21.3

bookstore or some little 250-page paperback that you read in a week and it's

0:25.4

gone. The same network of physicians that I personally use, I've just

0:29.6

pretty much unleashed them upon the world. Health, performance, nutrition, longevity,

0:38.2

ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the

0:46.4

show.

0:52.2

All right, big episode coming at you today. This is another solo

0:57.9

episode with yours truly. All sorts of cool stuff in here about protein and

1:02.2

creatine and ketones and new longevity research. You're gonna you're gonna dig

1:06.3

this I think. And if you want to meet up with me in LA, big, boundless book

1:12.0

launch parties are coming up. There's one on the 29th, one on the 30th, and one on

1:17.0

the 31st. So those book launch parties are gonna be amazing food, wonderful

1:23.9

people. Really good time. So you can get in if you got a Ben Greenfield Fitness

1:28.5

dot com slash calendar. And you can also pre-order the book at boundlessbook.com. I

1:34.5

would love to see any of the book launch parties. And the one in New York City is

1:38.5

actually happening this week might be too late by the time you hear this. That

1:41.3

one's on January 16th at the assemblage. But then January 29th, January 30th,

1:46.4

and January 31st at different cool party locales across LA. All the details are

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