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

I've derived a great deal of benefit and personal insight and relationship enhancement

and creative ideas from journeying with plant medicines, which made what I am about to share with you

very difficult to come up with. Frankly, I thought because all the fruits of my use of plant

medicines were nothing but good that the ends justified the means, but I was wrong. I'm sorry,

I was playing with fire and you might be too and I'm about to tell you why.

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

biohacking, and a whole lot more. Welcome to the show.

Cava is a powerful plant-based stress-relieving,

neutropic drink from the islands in the South Pacific. It's been highly regarded for

3,000 years as a safe, natural, non-addictive alternative to drugs and alcohol.

Cava can bring about these significant mood-boosting cognitive enhancing and anxiety

relieving effects for mind optimization. These effects are comparable to alcohol,

but without the drunkenness. Connoisseurs of Cava, and yeah, that's a thing.

Describe the experience as a calm, enhanced stage of natural sobriety, and I would have to agree.

You can drink this stuff and not have to drink alcohol. Cava has been scientifically demonstrated

to give you anxiety and insomnia relief, deeper, more restorative sleep, boosted mood and

social ability, enhanced mental focus and creativity, anti-inflammatory effects,

reduced craving for drugs and alcohol, an overall improvement in mental and emotional health.

It's also becoming known as this sober psychedelic because it gives you these very gentle

like entheogenic or psychedelic effects, but it leaves your functionality totally unimpaired.

It's not like a hallucinogenic or anything like that. So you get the same type of creative

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