October 19, 2018
Welcome to Ben Greenfield's Weekly Roundup and Cool New Discoveries!
Ben Greenfield's discoveries from the latest news from 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 giveaways, discounts, and more!
New Discoveries Of The Week: Cool New Things I'm Trying, Books I'm Reading, And More!
Chocolate Tea I've Been Enjoying
Cacao Tea: My friend Tucker Max recently informed me he doesn't drink coffee in the morning but he does drink *chocolate* every morning. He proceeded to tell me about “Cacao Tea”, so I ordered from Amazon. I must admit that it literally tastes like drinking a chocolate bar. It is loose-leaf chocolate tea made from the shell of the cacao bean and is 100% cocoa-based. It is completely natural, preservative free, and without any artificial flavors or starches, and is also organic, gluten-free, vegan, and sugar-free. The ingredients are, drumroll please, cacao nibs and cacao shells. Can't beat that. Click here to grab a bag from Amazon.
New Addition To My Home Mattress
BioBalance Mat: If you heard my interview on PEMF with Dr. Pawluk, you know how beneficial it can be for repairing the body during sleep. Problem is, most PEMF devices aren't that powerful and/or don't stay on for an entire night of sleep. But Pawluk just released a solution: it's called a BioBalance Mat, and I now have one on my Intellibed home mattress, tucked directly under my ChiliPad cooling mat (I inquired to ChiliPad about this and they informed me that the PEMF is actually *enhanced* by the water that circulates through the ChiliPad). The BioBalance is a whole-body PEMF mat that can be run using wall power or battery power. It has 6 programs: Balance, Alert, Relax, Sleep, Recovery, and Sweep. Treatment time can be set from 10 minutes to 12 hours (again, meaning this unit can be used overnight). Since beginning to use the mat, my sleep latency (how long it takes me to fall asleep), as measured by my Oura ring has dropped to 3 minutes flat. Click here to get a BioBalance.
Hack For Lucid Dreaming
Mugwort Essential Oil: My friend Dr. Nick, known as the “Essential Oil Wizard” and a former podcast guest in this episode, recently turned me on to his new formulation: Mugwort Essential Oil. Here's what he told me:
“Ben! Wishing you a bright day my friend. Thought I would share some exciting updates and behind the scenes at our lab. Here's a video our team member Erik did about our Ultrasonic Extraction process producing an Ultrasonic Extracted Mugwort Essential Oil from local wild harvested plant material.
I'm pretty stunned at how amazing this extract is. Especially tinctured up and used in very small quantities internally. I added some organic Lychee alcohol to the extract last night and the effects and flavor profile are beyond amazing. Will probably open it up for purchases early November, when I return from my road trip – I should be able to produce about 100 bottles of finished product. I find the experience to produce credible euphoria, gently psychotropic and mood enhancing. At higher concentrations (~20-25+ drops), I've found it to present slight feelings of discomfort & dehydration and I wouldn't suggest taking over 10 drops.”
I tried the mugwort and have been having amazing lucid and vivid dream cycles each night I use it, without fail. All have been extremely positive and fun. I recommend you give this one a try! Click here to grab some from Nick's website.
Podcasts I Recorded This Week:
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Articles I Published This Week:
4 Of My Top Quick Tips To Keep Travel From Destroying Your Body.
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Special Announcements:
::: RSVP for a Special Facebook Live Q&A This Coming Monday Night :::
In this special Facebook Live: Outside Magazine Edition, I'm going to reveal practical tips on how exactly I blend ancient wisdom and modern science to enhance performance and longevity. During this live event, we will…
– talk about the new rules for healthy living
– go on a tour through my home & office
– reveal why and how I incorporate outdoor workouts into my daily routine, even in the wintertime
– show you some cool, fringe fitness equipment I use
– and much, much more!
Tune in Monday, October 22 at 7 PM PST and don't forget to bring your questions for a Q&A. RSVP here.
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Upcoming Events:
– November 1 – 4, 2018: Live It To Lead It Health Centers of the Future Seminar, Las Vegas, Nevada. Create the life you want, the marriage you want, the family you want—all fueled by a practice that radically changes the lives of your patients. this three-day event, you’ll learn the latest medical discoveries in cellular health, get a marketing plan for scaling your practice and find ways to build residual passive income. Join me!
– December 2 – 8, 2018: RUNGA Retreat, Dominican Republic. You're invited to join me at RUNGA in December 2018. Join me in the Dominican Republic, one of the most beautiful places in the Caribbean, for this retreat. In all RUNGA activities, RUNGA invites you to come home to yourself. To see everything you'll be getting into, just click here. Use code BEN when you register so you get your gift when you arrive! I'll be there, too. Join the waitlist here.
– December 14 – 16, 2018: World Congress 2018 Hosted by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada. If you attend any conference this year, make it the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine’s 26th Annual World Congress. The fact is, in an era of andropause, low libido and deteriorating men's health, it's shocking that both practitioners and the public aren't aware of ancestral wisdom and modern scientific and medical tactics that can be used to optimize male physiology. It's time that changed, and I'll be teaching exactly how to make men, men again. Join me!
– April 6 – 7, 2019: FitCon Summit, Salt Lake City, Utah. FitCon® encourages everyone to Find Their Fit. It does not matter whether it is powerlifting, Crossfit, bodybuilding, roller derby, or even axe throwing. Be sure to visit the Kion booth in the expo!
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Ben
So you sleep with the BioBalance on for the whole night? Aside from sleep latency, have other sleep parameters improved (such as amount of deep/REM sleep, whether you wake up in the middle of the night, etc.)?
Ben, can you share any other thoughts other benefits you’re seeing from using the BioBalance Mat? HRV,
resting heart rate, breaths/min, sleep efficiency, deep sleep, REM sleep, sleep score, readiness score? Also, are you just using it to help fall asleep, or leaving in on all night?
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