Brain

The brain is an intricate organ, but research continues to reveal effective strategies for enhancing its performance and resilience. In these articles, Ben Greenfield explores evidence-based approaches to brain optimization, including key nutrients and diets for cognitive health, supplements that support focus, memory, and mood, the role of exercise in brain function, nootropics and smart drugs, and advanced biohacking techniques designed to improve mental clarity and overall neurological performance.

Ben Greenfield Life Weekly Roundup 7/20

The Weekly Roundup: Your Go-To Guide For Everything You May Have Missed This Week & More! 7/14-7/20

Welcome to Ben Greenfield’s Weekly Roundup! In this weekly post, I share with you my most interesting discoveries of the...

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The Weekly Roundup: Your Go-To Guide For Everything You May Have Missed This Week & More! 7/7-7/13

Welcome to Ben Greenfield’s Weekly Roundup! In this weekly post, I share with you my most interesting discoveries of the...

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The Ultimate Guide To Cold Thermogenesis, Part 1: 5 “Cool” Health Benefits Of Cold Exposure.

With ten pale, blue fingers, I white-knuckled the steering wheel of my Toyota RAV4 and strained to remember how to...

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A Simple Technology To Neutralize Stress In Minutes, Tap Into A Deep State Of Relaxation, Improve Your HRV, Sleep, Sports Performance, & More.

I see it every single day with my coaching and consulting clients: otherwise healthy men and women come to me...

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7 Easy Ways to Incorporate Breathwork Into Your Life, Plus My Top Recommendation for Making It a Daily Habit.

Breathing is quite possibly the most overlooked biological phenomenon, which is quite ironic, considering that it sustains all of human...

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How To Unlock Any Brain State On Demand, from Focus to Deep Sleep, with Brainwave Entrainment and Functional Music.

I tend to be a bit of a geekie tech nerd when it comes to finding and experimenting with different...

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How To Upgrade Your “Third Eye”: A Physician’s Top Tips To Optimize Your Pineal Gland For Better Sleep, Meditation, Melatonin Balance, Plant Medicine Experiences & More.

The first time I had Dr. John Lieurance—my brilliant, kind of crazy, super-fringe doctor friend—on my podcast, we recorded the...

DMT

How To Make Your Own DMT Naturally: Tips, Tricks & Biohacks To Activate Your Third Eye Pineal Gland.

My perception was zooming in…smaller and smaller…digging, digging, digging… I was stripping apart a tree…tearing it down into its individual...

Nootopia

The Ultimate Guide To Nootropics: How To Safely Use Better Living Through Science To Get The Most Firepower Out Of Your Brain – Part 2

In last week’s article, I introduced you to my friend Matt Gallant. Matt, the CEO of BiOptimizers, a strength and...

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The Ultimate Guide To Nootropics: How To Safely Use Better Living Through Science To Get The Most Firepower Out Of Your Brain – Part 1

Meet my friend Matt Gallant. Matt is the CEO of a company called “BiOptimizers” and has a bachelor’s degree in...

forward motion

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Or…Forward Motion? A Mindset Shift For Stressful Times.

You don’t need me to tell you that it’s been a challenging and uncertain time—we’ve all been tested in different...

COVID lockdown

9 Ways To Maintain Your Sanity & Happiness During The COVID Pandemic (& The Real Deal On The Psychological & Societal Impact Of COVID).

Regardless of how you feel about COVID-19—that it’s a serious threat to global health, and thus should be treated as...

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Not All EMFs Are Bad: How To Use EMFs & “Digital Nootropics” To Shape Your Electromagnetic Environment for Peak Health, Performance, Sleep, Energy & More!

From radio waves to gamma rays, from the hum of your fridge to solar flares… …electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are everywhere....

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Forget Everything You Think You Know About Calories, Eating, ATP & Cellular Energy – How Light Actually Creates Energy In Your Cells.

The first report of using red or infrared light therapeutically came in 1967 when a Hungarian physician and scientist named...

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Ben Greenfield’s Top Tweets Of 2020: What A Year It’s Been!

That little blue bird certainly evokes some strong emotions these days… Some accuse Twitter of being less of a social...

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Is There More Than One “You?” Embracing “Healthy Multiplicity” To Boost Performance, Longevity, & Health.

What is behind the multiple successes of world-class athlete, ballet dancer, award-winning chef, and successful entrepreneur Herschel Walker, as well...

nootropics

Boost Your Brain Power With These 4 Underground, Highly Effective Nootropic Compounds Most People Don’t Know About.

Nootropics are being discussed, studied, and used now more than ever—particularly among those in the biohacking space, but also increasingly...

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How To Use Exogenous Ketones For Recovery, Cognition, Sleep & Beyond.

It’s been a keto-packed couple of weeks here at Ben Greenfield Fitness—starting with the article “All Of Your Burning Keto...