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🗓️ 1 June 2016
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Dr. Chris Masterjohn is one smart dude. You'll understand why when you listen to today's podcast episode, which we recorded face-to-face at PaleoFX in Austin, Texas. Chris earned his PhD in Nutritional Science in 2012 from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he studied the role of glutathione and dietary antioxidants in regulating the accumulation of methylglyoxal. He served as a postdoctoral research associate from 2012 to 2014 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied interactions between vitamins A, D and K. He is now Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, NY, where he is continuing his research on fat-soluble vitamins. Chris has authored or co-authored ten peer-reviewed publications. His writes a blog, The Daily Lipid, and produces a podcast by the same name. You can also follow his professional work on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-The #1 thing that affects your circadian rhythm and ability (or inability) to sleep...
-Why some people are more sensitive to blue light than others, and how you can figure out your own sensitivity to blue light...
-Why Chris plays video games at night... -How much sugar you really need (you'll be surprised at the answer)...
-The best time of day to eat carbohydrates...
-The best time of day to eat amino acids, and why you should use a collagen form if you have protein at night...
-Whether eating liver is really toxic...
-The single most important stretch that Chris does with a broom handle...
-Why advanced glycation end products (AGE's) aren't really the biggest culprit when it comes to aging...
-How ketones can actually cause damage to your body...
-Which nutrition deficiencies affect your body's ability to make melatonin at night...
-And much more!
Resources from this episode: -Chris's post about how to determine your own genetic sensitivity to blue light -Headspace app -My podcast on marine phytoplankton/stem cells -My article on algae -Sleep Cocktail -USWellnessMeats -Glutathione
Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Chris Masterjohn or I? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of use will reply!
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0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? It's Ben Greenfield. I am on the road. As a matter of fact, at the time |
0:06.2 | that you're listening to this episode, I'm off the grid spending five days on a 176 |
0:14.1 | mile trip down the Grand Canyon on a raft. But in the meantime, the week before heading |
0:21.6 | down to the Grand Canyon, I was at Paleo FX, where my kids were doing a cooking demo about |
0:28.1 | how to use crickets and shiratucking Japanese Yam noodles to make pad Thai, where I was speaking |
0:34.8 | on mental performance and biohacking your brain, and basically where a lot of the world's leading |
0:41.8 | health and fitness and nutrition experts were gathered for what I consider to be one of the best |
0:48.0 | events on the face of the planet when it comes to this type of healthy living. Now, I managed to grab |
0:55.3 | gentlemen who I'm extremely impressed with, and both today, as well as this coming Saturday |
1:02.2 | on the Ben Greenfield Fitness Show, you're going to get to listen in to the conversation that I had |
1:07.2 | with these guys on the porch right here in the sunshine in Austin, Texas at Paleo FX. Today's episode, |
1:16.0 | the episode that you're about to hear was with Chris Masterjohn. In this episode, we discuss |
1:23.1 | everything from why sugar really isn't as bad as you may have been led to believe, to how to get |
1:29.2 | your body to make its own glutathione, to Chris's at rather strange evening and morning habits. But |
1:36.6 | before we jump in, I want to tell you about today's sponsor. First of all, this podcast is brought to |
1:42.8 | you by something shocking, literally something that I use to shock my body, shock my injuries |
1:49.9 | completely away. Just about any single time I get some kind of tendon or soft tissue injury. |
1:56.4 | Here's what I do. I take a couple of electrodes. I put the electrodes over the area where the |
2:02.3 | soft tissue is injured, whether this be knee pain, whether it be some kind of like a quadriceps |
2:07.5 | soreness from squats or cycling, you name it. On top of those electrodes, I actually put a ice pack |
2:15.4 | and underneath the electrodes, I put magnesium spray. That's my one, two, three method. I put a |
2:20.1 | topical. I put the electrodes, then I put the ice, and then I simply shock away for 15 to 20 minutes. |
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