On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast.

It's assumed that in heart failure, the heart is not doing its job.

Well, what if we've misinterpreted what the job of heart is?

It's kind of like an organ shutdown.

These reptiles, apparently naked mole rats, could somewhat withstand those things,

whereas in humans, that could be a very dangerous situation.

The stressors of modern day environments are not conducive to health or balance

in our stress response, in that communication of those stress signals to all organs,

really, but specifically the heart.

Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more.

My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show.

So today is a fantastic two-part episode on heart health, and it's pretty mind-blowing.

I think it's the best podcast that I've done yet on cardiovascular health and everything.

You need to know about caring for your heart.

I will tell you more later, but speaking of caring for your heart, you might as well

if you're going to care for your heart, care for your taste buds too.

And that's important because my new cookbook is now ready.

It's an epic bounty of mouthwatering, taste bud entertaining goodness.

All my biohacked smoothies and weird cocktails and crazy meat rubs and molecular gastronomy

and strange ways to use everything from Japanese YAM noodles to rib eye steaks.

I made this thing big. I made it beautiful.

It's chock full of all my craziest, most unique recipes that are not difficult to prepare,

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