April 22, 2021
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News Flashes – Follow Ben on Twitter for more…08:15
- Could coloring our steaks blue help reduce the world’s insatiable demand for meat?…11:20
- Related to podcast Q&A424, in which I mentioned: Am I the only one who thinks this is CRAZY?… a proposal to give us patches that make us allergic to meat and smart drugs that make us want to have fewer babies, all for “climate change” management
- Blue light blocking glasses reduce the palatability of food
- A microbe enhanced carpet? Couldn't we just all wear our dirty shoes around the house?…20:22
- Food insecurity, intermittent fasting, and exercise are all ways to grow new neural pathways. Basically, your brain gets smarter to get better at surviving and hunting down calories…24:15
Resources mentioned:
- The Eye of Revelation book by Peter Kelder (available for free at The 5 Tibetans website)
- The Reality Revolution by Brian Scott
- Sensehacking by Charles Spence
- The Lunatic Farmer (Joel Salatin's blog)
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Listener Q&A:
Exercises to balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems…42:40
Blair asks: What kind of exercises provide the preferred balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems?
In my response, I recommend:
- Cold exposure
- Viiiiva or Polar H6 with Naturebeat app
- The Quick and the Dead by Pavel Tsatsouline
- Kettlebell Simple and Sinister by Pavel Tsatsouline
- Normatec boots
- PEMF mat
- Child's Pose
Natural ways to boost DHEA…52:40
Q: I'm considering returning to the cage as a professional MMA fighter. What are some natural ways I can raise my DHEA levels without using banned substances?
In my response, I recommend:
- Ray Peat
- Sabbath Ramblings: Energy
- Metformin
- Body uses cholesterol to make DHEA
- Healthy fats diet to increase DHEA
- Coconut milk
- Coconut oil
- Organic grass-fed, grass-finished butter (use code BEN10 to save 10%)
- Flaxseed powder
- Chia seeds
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Weston A. Price Diet
- Ashwagandha
- Maca
- Wild yams potential precursor to DHEA
- Rhodiola
Is mold in kombucha a good thing?…58:30
Alexander asks: Is there a possibility a tiny bit of mold in kombucha can cause a slight hormetic response in the body?
In my response, I recommend:
- Kefir over kombucha
- Scoby is not mold but can be infested with mold
- Kombucha podcasts:
- Hormetic response to plant-based toxins
Sauna use in an apartment…1:05:40
Adam asks: Do you have any experience with temp or bedside saunas for use in apartments?
In my response, I recommend:
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- Higher Dose infrared sauna blanket (use code BEN to save $75)
- Sauna Space (light vs. heat)
- Clearlight saunas
Featured review:
VIP Text Club
Your fans* Everyone that listens to you and trusts you. You wrote pages in Boundless about the dangers of vaccinations and then you flip flopped. People are literally dying from this vaccine and you’re promoting it. You should be ashamed.
Your friends Thomas Cowan, Dave Asprey, Marcola, Luke Storey. They are ALL speaking out about it except you. Luke storey is much more noble than you are. He’s at least taking a stand.
Hi, no more clubhouse people please. I’ve had enough people promoting themselves and waffling on. Besides, since there’s rarely a chance for the person to reply to your reply we end up with the old Q&A anyway.
Hi Ben,
Interesting Q&A’s as always, thank you.
Any plans for bringing on precursor to HGH to KION? There was once a great product available from Ultra Lab HGComplex
http://www.rexresearch.com/articles2/hghprecursors.html
All the best
Florian