October 12, 2023
Welcome to Ben Greenfield's Weekly Roundup!
In this weekly post, I share with you my most interesting discoveries of the week, including the latest news on the fronts of fitness, nutrition, health, wellness, biohacking, and anti-aging research. I also recap my upcoming events and special announcements so you can keep up with opportunities to learn, giveaways, discounts, and more!
New Discoveries
Introducing My New Masterclass For Total Life Optimization – Everything You Need To Optimize Your Life
In case you missed it, I recently hosted a free 6-Day Life Optimization Challenge.
The challenge was essentially a comprehensive guide, based on what I’ve learned, to help you optimize your daily routine in just the way I live mine now, but customized for you, with the right priorities, in the right order, with the right fulfillment, success, and happiness.
Now, following the Life Optimization Challenge, I have a *new* offer for you if you're interested in taking total life optimization to the next level…
My brand new Masterclass.
Join thousands of others who are choosing total life optimization with me and learn to master your time, shape your body, connect your mind and spirit, and deepen your connections with my challenge. Sign up here before time runs out.
See you there!
P.S. In addition to my Masterclass, be sure to check out my latest Elite Coaching Program I just launched. It's a holistic journey that encompasses every aspect of your well-being. From customized nutrition guidance to biohacking, we leave no stone unturned in our quest to help you surpass your own limits. Check that out here.
“Boundless Kitchen” – My Newest Cookbook Coming Out Next Month!
The cat's out of the bag…
…I have another cookbook coming out and it's called “Boundless Kitchen“!
Discover the intersection of biohacking and molecular gastronomy in this groundbreaking new cookbook. In this book, I personally invite you into my kitchen laboratory to concoct 48 recipes to inspire longevity, health, and delicious eating.
With my signature “mad scientist chef” approach, I attempt to equip home cooks with unconventional tools, fringe superfoods like organ meats and colostrum, and the science behind clean eating.
Expand your culinary horizons with plants, meats, fermented foods, drinks, and desserts, from Carrot Cake Blender Waffles to Crispy Fish Collars to Sous Vide Blueberry Brisket. Yum! Also, master new techniques like sous vide, air frying, roasting, and braising, and thoroughly understand the restorative power of food at the cellular level and why these recipes work.
Whether you're an amateur biohacker or just food-obsessed, this cookbook will open your eyes to the future of healthy, sustainable eating.
So, what do you get when you pre-order my Boundless Kitchen cookbook today?
- Early Access – Get your hands on Boundless Kitchen before anyone else!
- Free Download – Score immediate access to a 7-day meal plan, curated by Ben and featuring recipes from the original Boundless Cookbook!
- VIP Invitation to a LIVE Launch-Day Event – Your pre-order of Boundless Kitchen earns you a private invitation to “Cooking with Ben” Launch Day Event, LIVE on November 14th!
- Join the Ben Greenfield Life community – At BGL, we believe that food is not just sustenance – it’s a gateway to an extraordinary life.
Your journey to truly “boundless” living starts here!
Pre-order Boundless Kitchen now to gain access to all the VIP perks above (and get excited for the book's official release on November 14th!).
Finally Found A Multivitamin I Can Get Behind…
I recently received a shipment of the new multivitamin from the company Xtend-Life and I've gotta say, my wife and I are really excited about this.
We received a goodie package containing their total men's balance supplements, along with the women's balance supplements and children's multivitamins for my twin sons.
The reason why I was so pumped to receive these supplements is because these tablets contain everything you need, jam-packed into one formula and formulated with a great degree of care and wisdom. I'm impressed.
For example, the women's balance supplement has everything that a woman needs for things like hormone balance, energy levels, better sleep, and a full range of nutrients, minerals, and micronutrients, to get the total balance women's premium.
And the men's balance supplements are pretty similar to the women's in terms of giving you your vitamins, nutrients, and regulating hormones and energy levels. This basically means I can toss out half the supplements in my pantry and replace them with just this one supplement.
Pretty cool and incredibly convenient for my family and me. If you're interested in learning even more about Xtend-Life and everything they have to offer, I have a podcast coming up with Warren Matthews later this month, the mastermind behind Xtend-Life and these awesome supplements, so keep an eye out for that.
In the meantime, click here and check out Xtend-Life's supplements, including some of their other products like heart health supplements and digestive/keto health supplements. Yeah, they really have a little something for everyone. ;) Check 'em out and use code GREENFIELD to get 15% off your order. Happy shopping!
“Pull Me Closer” – A New Song Of Mine From My New Album
It’s no secret that music is, and always has been, a huge passion of mine. I use music for relaxation, medicine, energy, sleep, worship, and as a creative outlet for the words and tunes that seem to swirl around my mind at least once a week.
One of my “side projects” of late has been creating my own music via original singing-songwriting, and as a result, I have finally put the finishing touches on a brand new rock album I recorded in Nashville, entitled “Made For” You can find my entire album here and take a look at where else my music is located (like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc.).
This latest track from my new album is called “Pull Me Closer”. It was inspired by a morning prayer walk in which I was struck by how much God was revealing His power and beauty to me via the colors and canvas of the fields, the trees, the sky, the wind, and the beautiful elements that surrounded me in the moment – all serving to “pull me closer” to my Creator.
As the lyrics to this song say, “creation cries, explosions in every shade…pull me closer…it pulls me closer to you…”
Enjoy, feel free to give it a like wherever you listen, share it with a friend, and most importantly, blast this one loud on a good set of speakers because in my humble opinion, the production quality is STELLAR (huge shoutout to my friend Chad Crouthers for that).
This episode was brought to you by Timeline Nutrition (code BEN), BiOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough, Lucy Gum (code BEN20), BioStack Labs, and Xtend-Life (code BEN15).
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Product Of The Week
::: Get 50% Off Your First Order Of This Filler-Free Children’s Multivitamin Gummy :::
Whether it's due to nutrient-poor plants, nutrient-poor animals, nutrient-poor milk, or nutrient-poor water, most diets are now so micronutrient deficient that they require on average 27,575 calories to supply all the essential nutrients you need.
In other words, you would need to be stuffing your face all day long to actually get what your body needs!
Now imagine the implications for growing young children.
The problem is that most children's multivitamins are little more than candy with a fancy label, containing up to two teaspoons of sugar per dose and all sorts of artificial chemicals and gummy materials that no child or adult should ever consume.
Hiya, here’s your alternative. No, really, that's what it's called.
Hiya is a pediatrician-approved chewable multivitamin that is free of the added sugars and harmful ingredients found in most children's vitamins.
It was created with the assistance of nutritional experts and includes 12 real fruits and vegetables as well as 15 essential vitamins and minerals.
These include vitamin D, B12, C, zinc, folic acid, and a variety of others that aid in immunity, energy, brain function, mood, concentration, teeth, bones, and other functions. In essence, it contains everything youngins need to grow up healthy and resilient.
Plus, it’s tasty, and if you've ever tried to get your 5-, 6-, or 7-year-old to take your adult multivitamin, you know that's important.
As a father, Hiya was a game changer in raising my boys. Jessa and I have always aimed to educate our sons on different topics like nutrition, exercise, etc., and then let them make decisions themselves. I first started using Hiya, hoping to make one of those decisions just a bit easier, and low and behold, my kids were hooked (and not just my kids).
On many occasions, I’ve been known to forgo my own high-end multivitamin in favor of a few tasty Hiya chewables, and even though my boys are older now and don’t mind taking pills, Hiya is still their preferred multivitamin.
And now, just for you, I’ve worked out a special deal with Hiya. When you use this link, you’ll get a whopping 50% off your first order!
Upcoming Events:
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Global Summit: October 10th — 16th, 2023
The Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Global Summit is a free, 7-day online event featuring 50+ world-class experts, including Stanislav Grof, Rosalind Watts, Rick Doblin, Gita Vaid, Andrew Weil, Paul Stamets, Hannah McLane, Bessel van der Kolk, NiCole T. Buchanan, Richard Schwartz, and many more. Join us as we explore therapeutic approaches and strategies, healing underlying traumas, standards, ethics, best practices, and more. Learn more here.
RUNGA: October 14th — 15th, 2023
RUNGA offers an intimate journey of self-discovery through experiential workshops focused on mindfulness, embodiment, and purposeful living. In addition to workshops and classes designed to help your body come into a state of healing, you’ll have unlimited access to a multitude of powerful therapies, including PEMF, Electro-Stim, Hyperbaric Oxygen, Infrared, and more! RUNGA events are intentionally intimate to ensure meaningful connections and exceptional support from their team of teachers and experts. If you are ready to take the next step in your wellness journey and join RUNGA for an unforgettable weekend of transformation and celebration, I encourage you to apply today. Learn more here.
Couples Collective: October 25th – 29th, 2023
Couples Collective is an exclusive and immersive way to explore health, wellness, and mindset with your significant other. Jessa and I will be leading a health optimization and relationships workshop, alongside many other awesome couples. This is a small event, and access requires you to interview with event-holder OWN IT to ensure a right fit. However, for those who are said fit, this event is designed to bring you into deeper union within your relationship and onward into greater connection with your life, love, health, and happiness. I'm looking for 6 to 7 power couples to come join me at the event – are you one of them? Learn more here.
Elements of Vitality: December 8th, 2023
Return to the Elements of Vitality—this will be the second time myself and good friend Dr. John Lieurance collaborate to bring you the most effective and cutting-edge health and wellness advice, protocols, and some of our favorite tools. If you’re into health and wellness, and you want to stay on top of all of the cutting-edge, latest and greatest innovations and protocols, you don’t want to miss this event. Learn more here.
Keep up on Ben's LIVE appearances by following bengreenfieldfitness.com/calendar!
Kion Product Of The Week: Kion Protein Bar
You know I’m a huge fan of Kion.
They combine the cleanest natural ingredients into complementing supplements (and foods!) that help you unlock your body’s natural energy.
And their new Chocolate Crunch Protein Bar is out of this world delicious.
Not only that but it is made with only real, whole-food ingredients—giving it balanced macronutrients for clean, stable energy.
The Chocolate Crunch Protein Bar’s complex flavors and texture come from real, natural, whole-food ingredients such as…
- Organic almonds
- Organic cocoa nibs
- Organic chia seeds
- Organic coconut, and
- Organic honey
And it contains 11 grams of satiating protein from grass-fed whey protein isolate to support your active lifestyle.
I promise you, you’re going to love this new protein bar. Click here to try it.
Asking A Quick Favor About My New Book Boundless Parenting: Tools, Tactics & Habits of Great Parents.
As you may know, in February of this year I released Boundless Parenting: a labor of love made up of interviews with some of the most incredible parents on the planet and their combined wisdom.
This book is designed to be a guide to, well, guiding your child in a world where navigating the act of raising a family has become a lost art.
The interviews in Boundless Parenting range from Bryan Johnson of Blueprint to my friends Dr. Dan and Merily Pompa, and many, many more. The text is chock full of all sorts of tools and tactics, from teaching your kids how to fast (and when it would be appropriate) to the ways Jessa and I have invested in the Greenfield family legacy. It has everything you need to go from lost-puppy-without-a-clue to grade-A super parent, and also has plenty of wisdom and actionable information for well-seasoned parents.
Now Boundless Parenting is available as the ultimate audio experience, as each chapter's narration comes not just from me and my wife Jessa, but also from each contributing parent's voice.
That’s right, you get to hear each parent read their chapter from their own perspective, making this audiobook come to life.
The parents, including my very own mom, my dad, myself, my wife, and many other models of practical parenting wisdom, delve into the fascinating realms of education, discipline, parenting, legacy, and so much more with specifics like:
- The best methods for developing lifelong immunity, cellular resilience, mental toughness, and overall health in a child
- How to manage your time, deal with overwhelm, care for yourself, and maintain high levels of productivity and health while raising children
- Family mission statements to family brands, traditions, and routines that foster pride and a strong identity in children
- Parents like Naveen Jain reveal how anyone can start a non-profit for their child for generational wealth building
- The crazy, controversial primal secrets of “tiger dad” parents like The Liver King and Joe Desena
- Lenore Skenazy on why she's America's Worst Mom (and why you should be too!)
- Joseph Anew and Emilia Run's advice on respectful parenting, slowing down, and controversial topics like co-sleeping
- Angie Fletcher on the intriguing traditions she began with her oldest child as a single, divorced mother
- My own parents Gary and Pat Greenfield on how they raised me and my 4 siblings to approach the world in a far different, outside-the-box way compared to other kids
- And much more!
I’ve even included a sneak peek just for you in a podcast I recorded, so you can start learning right here, right now!
Listen to me go over my love and logic parenting philosophy, how Boundless Parenting came to be, and other sections directly from the book.
Because parenting isn’t something you have to do alone. Remember the saying “It takes a village”?
So here's the favor: Listen to the sneak peek and if it strikes your fancy, let my book and the incredible parents in it be your village. Check out the audiobook release of Boundless Parenting here.
Also a quick little PS: I have a new book coming out soon called Boundless Kitchen that contains 48 inspired recipes for longevity, health, and great eating. Keep on the lookout for it as it'll be coming out later next month!
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Ben
