Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here, and if you're someone who's interested in increasing

your mental performance, your focus, maybe jacking up your IQ a few points, or just shutting

down brain inflammation, then today's podcast is for you.

My guest is an organic chemist, a neurobiochemist, a nutritional formulation consultant, and really

an expert when it comes to improving the well-being of your mind and your mental performance.

He's been studying health, nutrition, and metabolism for over four decades.

He runs the website over at Project Wellbeing, which you can check out at projectwellbeing.com.

His name is Stephen Faux, and the guy is a wealth of information.

I've had the pleasure of seeing him speak, actually down at Dave Asprey's BioHack Your

Life Conference in San Francisco.

He also has a great presentation that's out there online called Nutrients for Better

Mental Performance.

I'll be sure and link to that for you in the show notes to that video.

But today we're going to talk all about how to enhance your brain.

So Stephen, thank you so much for coming on the call.

It's a pleasure.

Now this seems like a unique field.

I got to admit, I'm not really familiar with too many people who are kind of experts

in things like shutting down brain inflammation and smart drugs and things of that nature.

So can you tell me a little about your background and kind of how you came to study in this field?

Well, I had an interest when I was young in the area of chemistry.

I had kind of pyromaniate tendencies as a child, and I did a movie in high school about filming

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