Top 24 Biohacks To Feel Younger And More Energetic Than Ever - Ben Greenfield

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🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Want to feel younger and live longer? The usual way to approach longevity is based on the countries in the blue zone, aka, the ones with the highest longevity rates. Usually, they think about their healthy habits to inspire a complete fitness transformation in people who are growing older in other places. Instead, Ben Greenfield, human performance consultant, believes that this healthy lifestyle is basic and won’t take humanity closer to eternal youth. So he goes beyond that. In this episode, you will learn more about the fitness routine and practices that will not only make your body younger but will make you stronger and more energetic than you felt 15-20 years ago. If you’re keen on learning how to be healthy or live longer, this is the episode for you. Get ready for a visible transformation. Ben Greenfield is a human performance consultant, speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of 17 books, including the widely popular titles Beyond Training, Boundless, Fit Soul, Spiritual Disciplines Journal and the Boundless Cookbook. Former collegiate tennis, water polo, and volleyball player, bodybuilder, 13-time Ironman triathlete, and professional obstacle course racer, Ben has been voted by the NSCA as America’s top Personal Trainer and by Greatist as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness. A frequent contributor to health and wellness publications and websites and a highly sought after speaker, Ben’s understanding of functional exercise, nutrition, and the delicate balance between performance and health has helped thousands of people around the world achieve their goals and improve their quality of life – from high-level CEO’s to soccer moms to professional athletes and beyond. Ben is an advisor, investor, and board member of multiple corporations in the health and fitness industry and is also the founder of KION, a nutritional supplements company that combines time-honored superfoods with modern science to allow human beings to achieve peak performance, defy aging, and live an adventurous, fulfilling joyful and limitless life. Listen out for: - How to optimize your mind. - How to optimize your body. - How to optimize your spirit. Bonus: - Learn quick biohacking secrets with Ben Greenfield in this FREE Mindvalley masterclass and supercharge your longevity 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/YHptt_Wx - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You want to care for your soul, you want to care for your spirit and not just get so caught up with the biohacks and the six pack abs and the optimization of your neurotransmitters that you forget to care about your happiness and your purpose and true meaning in life.
0:14.0	I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.
0:19.0	You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet.
0:25.0	It has cast a world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for my body, spirit and work.
0:31.0	When I was 34, I tested my biological age, right? So I had a chronological age of 34.
0:37.0	My biological age when I tested via telomeres was 37.
0:41.0	And then I tested again when I was 35 and my biological age had dropped to 36.
0:48.0	My last test, and again, this was implementing a lot of this stuff I'm going to show you, at 36 years old, I had a biological age of 20.
0:57.0	That was my goal to get to by the time I was 40 years old. So I'm ahead of the curve, but the idea that you can be at a chronological age,
1:04.0	but look, feel and perform as though you're at a much younger biological age is something we can attain and something we can test with telomere length.
1:12.0	I'm going to teach you guys some of the things that I did to do this over the past few years.
1:17.0	So we'll split this into three sections, three sections, how to optimize your mind, how to optimize your body and how to optimize your spirit.
1:25.0	I'm going to go over some of my most potent tips for each of these body, mind and spirit as we go.
1:31.0	So we're going to start with mind, this concept of balancing your neurotransmitters, dopamine, serotonin, an inhibitory neurotransmitter that helps you sleep called gamma amino butythirac acid and acetylcholine.
1:45.0	Those are some of your most important neurotransmitters.
1:48.0	And there are certain things that you can do to keep these in balance.
1:51.0	Who likes coffee? Who drinks coffee? All right, a lot of it.
1:56.0	A big cup of coffee every morning.
1:58.0	Who knows one of the best ways that you can balance your neurotransmitters and keep coffee from gradually depleting some of those excitatory neurotransmitters and keeping you from doing things like sleeping, napping, relaxing or avoiding that post, that post, a cup of coffee crash?
2:14.0	What's something you can add to coffee? Okay.
2:18.0	I heard a lot of chemicals get thrown out there.
2:20.0	It's theanine. Theanine.
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