[Transcript] – The Nitty-Gritty Details Of Ben Greenfield’s Daily Routine, How To Optimize Your Workspace, The Latest Biohacking Secrets, Superfood Smoothies & Much More: Part 1 of Ben’s Talk at the Health Optimisation Summit.

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[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:02:11] Podcast Sponsors

[00:04:45] Start of “A Day In My Life”

[00:08:17] How to look at the body as a battery

[00:12:14] Ben's morning routine

[00:39:28] Podcast Sponsors

[00:42:28] Family time in the morning and the smoothie

[00:51:27] How Ben optimizes his workplace

[00:55:28] Midday routines and rituals

[01:01:57] “What does your wife do?”

[01:03:32] End of Podcast

Ben:  My name is Ben Greenfield. And, on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life podcast.

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We look at DNA and we look at all the different things that will help us accustom.

Okay, here's the diet to choose based on this blood pattern, this DNA pattern, this urine. They're a little more difficult to get your hands on. A microdose of mushroom, microdose of LSA, microdose of wachuma. So, I'll typically do a microdose at least once or twice a week and it really, really sems to help out.

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Alright, folks, you are about to hear part one of a two-part special podcast episode series from my presentation at the Health Optimisation Summit. I was tasked to speak about “A Day In The Life,” which sounds could be a pretty quick talk, but I don't know, I suppose my life can get a little bit complex. There's a lot of things I do for optimization. I went through my morning routine, my afternoon routine, my evening routine, all the hacks, all those supplements, all the meals, all the workplace ergonomics, all the rituals, everything from things I do from my brain, things I do from my body, things I do from my spirit. A lot of really good questions popped throughout. And, it turned into such a big presentation. We actually wind up running out of time on Day 1 and moving the second part of my presentation to Day 2. So, today's podcast is Day 1. And, in this podcast, you're going to hear a whole lot, and all the shownotes because there'll be a lot of resources for you are going to be at BenGreenfieldLife.com/HOSpodcast1. That's BenGreenfieldLife.com/HOSpodcast1. Alright, enjoy.

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How is everybody doing good? Good. What a turnout, geez. I think we should get a little bit of energy flowing before we dive in. So, we got room. Everybody stand up. We got room, yeah. Okay. I just want to do this because it's my favorite way to get the energy going and it's this good little technique. It's just tai chi shaking. And, what you do is you just start shake, shake, shake, shake the body. And, this is going to sound super weird, but don't worry everybody's doing it so we can all look like dumb, all look like dumbasses together, take a deep breath in and go. Big smile as you do it and deep breath in. And, one more. And, pull your right ankle over your left shoulder. No, I'm just kidding. Alright, I need to find my little clicker here.

Welcome to, I suppose what's probably the most narcissistic talk ever. And, I have my 19-year-old prom photo up there. But I'm talking about a day in my life, which I was self-conscious talking about. I've never given this talk before because it changes a lot, with all the things. And so, I wanted to give you guys an updated, a little preview of all the things you can do to feel good. And, I don't know if I want to give this talk, but people ask, people ask, they want to know what laser lights are you putting up your nose and what suppositories are you putting up your butt, and what needles are you injecting into your arm. And, some of you got that joke. So, basically, I thought we just have fun and we kick it with all cool things that you can. You don't have to do all the stuff that I'm going to talk about to optimize your day, but I at least want to help you understand some of the things that will make you feel really good. And, if you do all this stuff, then you'll feel really good and you won't have any money left in the bank but you'll feel really, really good.

I'll put resources, it's teeny tiny down there, but I know everybody's got 20/20 vision because you biohack your eyeballs. So, it's BenGreenfieldLife.com/HOS22. I'll put some shownotes with the column shownotes because I'm a podcaster, what do you call resources like podcasts and articles and books and stuff. We could take a deeper dive on anything that I talk about. And then, furthermore, because I suck at time management, I don't know if I'll allow enough time for Q&A today, but we're going to do a Q&A tomorrow. Tim, we're doing a Q&A tomorrow, yeah? And, what time are we going to do that? Ish. Okay. So, look at your app or ask somebody other than Tim who knows what's going on here at this biohacking event. And so, yeah, I love to answer questions. So, don't worry if I don't have time to do stuff today, we'll do more questions tomorrow. And then, right after this, I'm not trying to be an asshole and not say hi to people, but I'm actually going to boogie straight out because I'm going to go down to the book signing table. I'm going to be down there and I'll sign some books and stuff we can talk there too. And so, that's where I'll be after if you wonder why I'm boogieing out. It's either that or I have explosive diarrhea from all the collagen and the ketones and the weird 18 different kinds of coffee down there.

Alright. So, the way that I really operate my life in terms of optimization, in terms of feeling good is I look at the body as a battery. And, really when we look at all these things like photobiomodulation, red light, earthing, and grounding, and heat, and cold, and water, and minerals, a lot of these things, they're just restoring negative ions to our body, exposing us to frequencies, 3 to 100 hertz to maximize the anti-inflammatory activity and the energy-enhancing activity of a lot of these natural native electricity sources. We look at things like vibration and sound waves and frequencies in light like I mentioned and even spiritual energy and a lot of the quantum physics-based photons that we get exposed to. And, it all comes down to this wonderful quote. I think this is a great quote by tesla. If you want to understand the universe things in terms of energy, frequency and vibration, I mean, perfect example outside the Biocharger thing down there. That's a perfect example, tesla coil and all these noble gases outside of it, they get excited by the electricity and the in the coil and you get exposed to radio frequencies, and PEMF, and infrared light. And, that's a perfect example of frequency-based device that allows you to feel better. But everything I do, I'm looking, “Okay, so how can I charge the battery? How can I combat the evolutionary mismatch that I'm fighting living in a post-industrial era? What kind of things can I do to restore my body back to health, specifically restore the electrochemical gradient across my cell membranes back to health to restore the type of frequencies that I'm exposed to?” Because we're fighting a battle. All of us are fighting a battle. We all want to feel good. Everybody in here wants to feel good, yes? Yes.

And so, these are the kind of things that that we got to do because a lot of your friends might say, “Oh, that's silly. Why are you wearing the light cap? And, why is your mouth all blue?” And, I mean, you can tell them, “Hey, look, we're living in an era that humans have not evolved or grown accustomed to be able to operate in and to feel optimized in. So, we got to do these things to feel really good.” And, when you do, I mean, bottom line, what's the bottom line? Why do we do all this stuff? Anybody know?

Female:  Energy.

Ben:  Energy? But why do you want energy?

Female:  To feel good.

Ben:  You feel good. Why do you want to feel good?

Male:  To change the world.

Ben:  To change the world. Yes, yes, yes, [00:10:40]_____. Yeah. You get nothing. Actually, I am giving something away later on. So, if anybody really raises your hand and has a witty comment or throws a piece of rotten fruit, you might win. But yeah, we do these things so we can live out the purpose. Everybody has a purpose. How many of you have a purpose statement written down? Your ikigai, [00:11:00]_____, what you're going to do, what rips you out of bed in the morning? And so, that's why we do these things. It's not so we can live up to 160 and haha, got more cars, and more women and more men, and more homes and mansions, and more years. That's just all mental masturbation really, earmuffs kids. But really what it's about, it's about maximizing your health spence. You can help other people. If you help other people, that's why we're here, we're here to love, and to help and support other people. So, we got to put on our body armor so we can get out there and actually make a change in the world whether we're an accountant, or whether we're flipping burgers, or whether we're like Tim, we're begging groceries at Salisbury. And so, yeah, everybody knows what your midnight job is, man.

And so, basically, that's why we do this stuff, that's why we do this stuff. So, I'll break it up. So, what we'll do is we'll go early morning, we'll go work day and we'll go after noon, we'll get into the evening, some of the bedtime habits. If we have time, like I mentioned, we'll do Q&A. And, if not, we'll save it for tomorrow. So, the early morning, that's beautiful, that's actually a field very near to my house. That's close to the wall. When you guys hear me walking and talking when I'm doing a podcast, that's what I'm looking at. Well, because I get no cell phone reception on my house so I got to walk up a hill and walk by all these fields, butt ass ugly but I get through it somehow.

And so, the kind of things that I'm up to right now in the morning. Alright, so I'm going to give you a tip that's amazing. It's the best $11 that I've spent ever. I got one back on my hotel room. You can get these on Amazon or elsewhere. But I have a red headlamp next to my bed, okay, red headlamp next to my bed. Now, my room is I use incandescent lighting in the house because that's the most natural lighting for the body circadian rhythm. In the bedroom, it is red incandescent lighting in a lot of the rest of the house aside from the master bedroom and in the kid's bedroom where they're sleeping, it's all-natural slightly brighter incandescent lighting. But then, when I get up in the morning because we all know, I hope many of us realize at least that the circadian rhythm starts when. When do you start to prepare your body for sleep?

In the morning. In the morning. So, what you do in the morning is important. So, if you want to phase shift your circadian rhythm because you're waking up at 4:00 or 5:00 or whatever, or you want to gradually give your body a little bit more of a hypocortisolic easing into the day, then you don't blast yourself with light early on in the day. So, it's kind of funny, I put on this red headlamp and I put on my red-light glasses and I keep the red-light function on my phone. And, I even have the red light paper, this cheap red-light paper I bought on amazon, cover the light in the refrigerator. Because one of the first things I do when I get up is I do go to the refrigerator and have a hamburger. I'm just kidding. I get my water and stuff out of the refrigerator. And so, I'm just keeping the body in this nice kind of red-light cave. Yeah, I get up pretty early like 4:45, 5:00 a.m., but it's still around 6:00 a.m. I just walk around with this little red headlamp. Such a good investment.

You went at the hotel. Last night, I had to get up to go to the bathroom at 2:00 a.m. and I put on a little red headlamp and it just keeps your circadian rhythm from being disrupted. That's a new thing for me. And, oh my gosh, like I said, it's the best 11 bucks that I've spent a long time. And then, except for the massage with the happy ending in Thailand, that was also–but I think that was 11.50. No, I'm just kidding.

Okay. So then, I've interviewed a lot of these ayurvedic physicians on my podcast. I've learned a lot of little things from them. And, I don't it all, but I go to the dentist sometimes I say, what are you doing? Your gums are great, you use the electric toothbrush and the water pick, and you're getting your teeth cleaned every quarter, I'm like, “No, no, I totally suck at the dentist.” I mean I know a lot of people like the dentist, but I'm not a big fan of the dentist. So, I avoid going to the dentist, but they always tell me when I go, “Oh, no, your gums are so healthy, your teeth are so healthy.” I do the coconut oil pulling or the oil pulling. There's a lot of companies that I'll make done for you oil pulling. Dirt is one example. You know what, extra virgin olive oil works really well like a nice spicy pungent. You do the cough test. So, I did this last night at dinner. What's the name of the people who have the olive oil out there? Hunter-gatherer, yeah. You taste it and get a little cough like a little spicy pungent cough from all the flavonols and the polyphenols in it. Well, I'll do some of that or I'll do some cocoa. I'm not super picky on my oil, you just need a lipid and you swish it around your mouth for about five to maximum of 20 minutes. Once you get up to 20 minutes, you'll start to get some toxins kind of going back down the back your throat. Fantastic way to get the oral health start at the beginning of the day.

I do the tongue scraping as well. And, do not ask me how the tongues–okay, so this is going to be kind of a dirty joke. But somebody once said, “So, how do you do the tongue scraping?” I go, “Oh, it looks like this.” Don't. and, they're like, “Haha, got you.” So, you don't demonstrate the tongue scraping. But anyways, the tongue scraping, fantastic cleaning off the tongue, then you take a little sip of water and you swallow it. And, according to ayurvedic medicine what that does is it sends a message to your gut biome to wake up. So, I do all three of those things super quick. I just go in the bathroom and the coconut oil pulling, usually the tongue scraping first, swallow a little bit of water first and then put the oil in, just swish the oil as I'm getting through the rest of my day. So, that's great for oral health.

Now, for beauty, gosh, I learned half of what I know from Andy. I think Andy's around here somewhere. Andy Hnilo from Alitura. He's been to my house a couple of times, taught me and my sons all sorts of cool things about beauty. But what I do is I do a derma roller. These are fantastic, so I do the derma roller on the face and you can do the derma roller in the hair. You don't have to do this every day. About once a week though, I'll do the derma roller, and then I'll apply a clay mask, a clay mask. And, it's funny, my whole family does this, my 14-year-old sons do, it's great. They don't have the teenage acne or the eczema or anything. My wife does it. So, we're all walking around the house on Wednesday mornings with our clay masks on. And, if you can get in front of infrared light and there's even a company named HigherDOSE and they make an infrared light face mask that you can wear when you have the clay mask on. And, as far as a done-for-you home beauty treatment, you don't have to go to an expensive beauty clinic to have done, it just works fantastically at making the skin nice and supple, helps with hair growth. Obviously, I'm trying to be Santa Claus this December. It's coming in slowly, but it help me with the beard growth.

And so, I do that once a week. But then, the other thing we were talking about this at dinner last night. I don't remember who I was talking about with, but we're talking about how to keep hair from graying and how to improve the skin health and there's two peptides now that are kind of hot. You're going to find them in a lot of beauty products. I kind of walked through the expo really quickly, saw some beauty industry people down there. I didn't look at the labels of those snake oil supplements that they're hawking. No, I'm just kidding. But what you want to look for is these two peptides, GHK copper peptide and C60, GHK copper peptide and C60. The GHK copper peptide is abbreviated G-H-K-C-U. And, these are fantastic for the skin health, for hair growth if you have a thinning hairline. Men or ladies, if you want a beard. Basically, it's wonderful for just restoring a lot of youthfulness and a lot of really, really great hair growth. And so, GHK copper peptide and C60, I use that typically in the morning and the evening.

And then, the other one that I use nowadays is aside from the Alitura, which is the brand I use for the clay mask. I use the Greenfield Botanics. So, a lot have been asking me if I just started a skin care company, it's actually kind of funny because my aunt, Cindy, she lives down in Florida, and her and I got together and she's got all these essential oils at her house and everything. We spent a few months, we made this topical spray. I just sprayed some on my face before I came in here and a serum. And so, that's the one that I use now. But it's just blend of essential oils and all sorts of natural products for the face. But I'm a real, real big fan of doing something every day to really take care of the complexion, and it helps out tremendously at least in my opinion. I don't look like I'm 80 years old yet, so I'm working on it. I'm working on the Benjamin Button look.

Okay. So, hydrate, hydrate. This is, again, something I do, something my sons to do. We all get up and everybody do a big, big glass of water when you get up in the morning. Yeah, giant Mason glass full of water. So, what do you do to optimize that water? What do you do to optimize that water? Well, hydrogen, selective antioxidant, absolutely amazing. I'll do 2 to 3 hydrogen tablets, 32-ounce glass of water in the morning and I repeat this in the afternoon. Usually, about 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon. That's actually about when I start to taper off a large amount of fluid intake because especially guys out there, trust me, as you get older, you get up to pee more at night. I can tell you that right now. I always thought that it was just unhealthy people, prostate issues got, no, I'm healthy as a horse, but now I get up to pee at night. So, I'm careful with drinking too much later on in the day. But this big 32-ounce Mason glass of water, you put the hydrogen in it and then Quinton. And, there's a lot of good electrolytes out there. Protect is a good one. LMNT is a good one. I saw a few other brands down there, but I like Quinton as a really, really clean high, high mineral source. And, that's the one that I use, these little Quinton packets. Okay.

And then, the other things that I put in there are the Jigsaw Health make something called Adrenal Cocktail. And, I'm convinced that's one of the best ways to allow your adrenal glands not to become exhaust. It's a blend of vitamin C and minerals, and it'll help with the morning bowel movement a little bit too especially when combined with this other stuff. But you wake up in the morning glass water, a little bit of hydrogen. So, I've been experimenting with this for a few years. What do you put in the morning glass of water? And, this one, you feel really good on. A little bit of hydrogen, a little bit of Quinton, a scoop of this Adrenal Cocktail. The thing that you can do if you want to alkalize the body and offset a little bit of that acidity of vitamin C, and there's a little bit of research that it may actually allow for better absorption of the vitamin C. I didn't write it up there, but it was just a little bit of baking soda. It's about a 2 to 1 ratio of the Adrenal Cocktail to the baking soda. So, if you do a teaspoon of the Adrenal Cocktail, do half a teaspoon of the baking soda and it helps to alkalize that drink. And also, that's really, really helpful for the morning bowel movement as well.

And then, the last one, this is cool. So, I was looking at all the NAD and the NR and the NMN brands out there and they're great. They work fantastically. Many companies are combining the nicotinamide precursors with the sirtuin. And, the sirtuins pair turkey and cranberries with anything that has NAD in it to help your DNA to repair. So, doing a little NAD and some blueberry powder, or a handful of blueberries, or some resveratrol, or there's another really, really good one, better than resveratrol I think called pterostilbene. Those are all really, really great. But those supplements, they can be expensive. And, I'm going to piss off anybody in here with nicotinamide or NR downstairs. But basically, you can get a giant bag literally on Amazon and you can put just a tiny little tip of a teaspoon in that morning glass of water. And, the bag that you want to look for is niacinamide or nicotinamide. Niacinamide or nicotinamide. They're basically the same thing. You put a little bit of that in there, and I mean, that bag will last you for five years. It cost 60 bucks or something like that. So, you're only paying pennies to up-regulate your NAD levels.

Now, the problem is it doesn't do as good a job of upregulating what are called your NAD salvage pathways as these supplements do. So, you got to upregulate your NAD salvage pathways. And, the best way to do that as I was explaining this to somebody at dinner last night, we're talking about NAD, I said the best way to do that, and this is the right to work in a few times a week do a fasted morning exercise session that includes a little bit of high-intensity exercise or weight training. It doesn't have to be every day, but if you do that two or three times a week, that's one of the best ways in addition to a regular sauna treatment to upregulate your NAD salvage pathways. And so, you put a little bit of the niacinamide or the nicotinamide in the water and then you do a little bit of a fasted morning exercise and you're going to keep your NAD levels really nicely topped off. Now, I'm still a fan of the NAD. I'm going to get one tomorrow over here from the H2, what is it, H2M alphabet something, but they're over there. And, I'll get an NAD injection tomorrow, an IV tomorrow, but I'll do that once a month or so. Kind of top off the levels, and then all I do is this little bit of niacinamide or nicotinamide in the morning. I'll do a little bit of fasted exercise. And so, my NAD levels just topped off and feel fantastic. So, that's kind of what's going on with NAD right now.

Supplements. I get so many questions about what supplements that I use. So, first of all, I've begun using–and this is cool, you guys are going to see a lot more of this making its way into the health optimization, and biohacking, and anti-aging sector. I use peptides, but there's a lot of really great research by Dr. Khavinson at Russia about these different forms of peptides. They're actually even smaller amino acid sequences than some of the peptides that you might be familiar with. You might be familiar with insulin, of course, but many people are familiar with BPC157, an injectable peptide for injuries or TB500 is another great one. Oh, my gosh, an amazing fat loss muscle gain stack is one called tesamorelin in the morning and then you stack that with one called ipamorelin CJC1295 in the evening. And, these are injectable. Millions of diabetics inject themselves with insulin every year. So, you can handle the needles, it's not too hard. You do a little pinch of subcutaneous fat, but that one-two combo, tesamorelin, ipamorelin, fantastic. I could talk to you for an hour about peptides.

I did recently write an article, if you go to BenGreenfieldLife.com and search for peptides, I wrote an article about some of the better stacks out there. But here's the secret and I haven't talked about this much. The new thing is peptide bioregulators. Anybody taking these right now, the peptide bioregulators, oh, Tim, you're on top of it. Alright, good. Good. Okay. So, Tim, that's why he's bench-pressing 700 pounds now on that ARX machine downstairs. He's on the peptide bioregulators. Anybody else hear these use them? Okay. So, these are basically tiny amino acid sequences. And, typically, you take about 10 to 12 amount of time. It's cool because unlike regular peptides, they're oral, they don't have to be injectable. They can be injectable, but they're pretty well-absorbed orally and they target the liver, the spleen, the pancreas, the gonads, the intestines, the thyroid. And so, basically, the anti-aging research out of Russia in terms of lifespan extension on these things is astounding. Astounding. There's other longevity-enhancing peptides like MOTS-c, for example, is another very common one. But these peptide bioregulators, what you do is just a 10-day protocol of that, two or three times a year, one of the best things you can do in the anti-aging department. You feel really good on them too, you recover faster, you feel better. So, peptide bioregulators, I use those in the morning.

Now, if I'm on a 10-day cycle of those, I take a few of the Kion Flex. And, I own this supplements company called Kion, so I eat them on dog food. And, I take the Kion Flex because it only works if you take it on an empty stomach. So, I'll take that in the morning. If I forget, I take it in the evening, but always on an empty stomach. So, that's how I fight joint pain and inflammation. A lot of times, I'll do the Troscriptions. Who's walking around here with the blue mouth? Yeah, a few people. Okay. So, those blue mouth people, they're getting methylene blue into the system which when combined with infrared light is one of the best ways to upregulate the cytochrome C oxidase activity in the mitochondria and increase your level of ATP and you feel fantastic on it. It's a little bit of a natural anti-malarial too. So, theoretically, it may help out a little bit with viral infections and immune systems and things like that.

Now, interestingly, a lot of people think they got to do it do it in the mouth to get the mouth all blue, it's actually absorbed in the gastric system as well. It's absorbed in the gastric system. You tend to pee a little bit of almost a green because yellow plus blue is green. And so, my wife always get pissed on the day that I do the methylene blue because the toilet's green. Again, you'll clean it off and get the baking soda and scrub it out. But it's worth it. You feel pretty good on this stuff. But what you do is you combine it with infrared light, so you take this methylene blue. The second thing I do in the day once I've kind of gotten all this stuff done is I go downstairs and I start work, and I've got the light panels on. So, the methylene blue is amazing when combined with the infrared light.

And then, typically a lot of times I'll do a microdose, a microdose of a plant medicine. And, I really think there's a lot of people using the high-dose plant medicine for trauma and for therapy and for an excuse to do drugs and have it sound like it's a noble laudable thing going to ayahuasca for your 38th time down on the amazon. But I think the reason God put a lot of these compounds on the planet was not necessarily to go figure out how to fix all your problems. I think there's better ways to do that, but in very, very small doses, amazing, amazing for cognitive enhancement. They're a little more difficult to get your hands on. Legalization varies from country to country. But yeah, a microdose of mushrooms, microdose of LSA, microdose of wachuma. So, I'll typically do a microdose at least once or twice a week and it really, really seems to help out with cognition and energy.

A new one that I'm doing, Dr. Ian Mitchell, he recently flew up to my house and he shared with me. I don't know if anybody heard my interview with him. He shared with me some fantastic research on this stuff that he's developed called Neural RX. And, he's showing some really cool data on reverse of Alzheimer's and dementia with a daily little tablespoon of this. So, I make my big ass morning smoothie most days. I put a little tablespoon of that Neural RX in there. And, it's just amazing for cognitions. That's kind of a new one. He's got all sorts of great products but that one is absolutely amazing. The other one that he's making now is called the Resistor. And, a lot of people now are into ozone treatments like blood ozonation and drinking ozonated water. You can even do a rectal or a vaginal insufflation of ozone to really get it into the bloodstream. But the thing is he makes these little ozone capsules. So, if you don't have an ozone generator, if you don't have access to a dock that can do ozone, you can literally swallow one or literally put it up like a suppository and it just gets a bunch of ozone into your system without having to use the ozone generator. And, I've been using that for the past couple of months kind of experimenting with how I feel with that versus using an ozone generator. They work surprisingly well. So, the two that I use from here with the Neural RX and the Resistor, which is the ozonator one. And then, the other one I'm into right now, they're downstairs, the BiOptimizers. Folks have a fantastic little box called Nootopia and all these done for you smart drugs and nootropics. You don't use all this stuff every day, your head would explode if you did. But you choose different things for different days depending on the cognitive needs. And, a lot of those things in terms of the type of things I'm taking in the morning for supplements, that's basically it.

Okay. So, got the morning glass water and the supplements, and then I get the body moving, get the blood flowing. Now, typically, for me, I'll do 10 to 15 minutes of deep tissue work. So, I have one room in the house and I've got Kelly Starrett's “Becoming a Supple Leopard,” some other mobility books. I just go hunting, I go hunting for all the spots in the tissue that are tight or sore. And, I'll use a Theragun or a massage gun and a foam roller. I use one called a RumbleRoller that's nice and stiff and has ridges coming off of it. I'll use little lacrosse balls. I have this whole room with all these little body devices. So, I figure 10 to 15 minutes of morning, I'm getting at least 70 minutes of deep tissue work.

And, I interviewed this guy named Joel Greene, fantastic, super smart guy. He should come over here and talk at some point. He'd be a great guest. And, he talks about keeping your old muscle young, keeping your old muscle young. One of the ways you do that is you reduce a lot of the fascial adhesions, and restore mobility, and oxygen, and blood flow to the tissue. And so, every morning, I'm doing something to keep my tissue young. I remember I even interviewed this gal named Olga who was an old track star and she was 80 plus-year-old track star. And, she had to get the wine bottle next to her bed and she'd wake up at night and kind of roll her body with the wine bottle. When you travel, you can take Nalgene bottle wrapped in a towel, all sorts of ways you can do, the handle of a kettlebell. I mean, I do it. I have all my clients, they got their daily morning body movement and it's really, really great for just keeping the body put together, this morning deep tissue work. So, enormously important.

And, what I do now is I have one of those little mini trampoline rebounders, really good for lymph flow. And, this is all in just 10 to 15 minutes. If you guys haven't tried the Biocharger yet, try that one out because I'll jump up and down the trampoline and on this Biocharger, and it's just blasting my body back to Tesla's quote with all these wonderful electrical activities while I'm bouncing down the trampoline get off, do the foam rolling, and my body just feels great because I got the water and I've done the ayurvedic stuff and I've bounced and I've done the Biocharger. And then, what I do is I move into the one thing that I do that keeps the whole day from going to crap, and it's magic. This is magic. It sounds a little woo, but it works. So, in the morning, once I've done all this stuff and I've kind of gotten the blood flowing, so I'm not going to fall asleep while I'm meditating and praying. What I do is I go upstairs, and if you have kids, this is great, this is great for your kids, your spouse is going to thank you. And, what I do is I go through the whole living room. And, even if you're single and you're living by yourself, do this. It makes the morning amazing. And, I light incense and I put on this wonderful relaxing music. I like a channel on Spotify called Soaking Worship. It makes the whole house seem this temple. And, I'll dim the lights and then I'll get out of meditation cushion, I sit on the living room floor. A lot of times I'll call down my sons if they're up and they'll join me and we just spend about 20 minutes reading a devotional, reading the bible, and praying, and meditating together, and smelling this wonderful incense, and listening to the wonderful music.

When you start your day like that and it's really, really hard, you guys, because I want to go get shit done. I'm a driven guy. And, for me to sit on a meditation cushion when I know what's going on with all the emails and the inbox on my computer downstairs, it's really tough, it's really tough. It took me a long time to build up the willpower to do that. But I keep the incense right on the table, I keep the meditation cushion super accessible, I keep the Bible and the devotional right there. I reduce any barriers to entry and I just get in there and do it. It's really weird because you take that 20 minutes and you do it and it's magically you get a whole bunch of extra time in the day, and you're more peaceful and you feel better. And, I don't actually do that when I travel because believe it or not, I don't travel with incense sticks and meditation cushion and pillow and a Bluetooth speaker for the Soaking Worship music.

What I do when I travel is I use an app. I use an app. And, it's the same thing, it gives me affluence of time and allows me to just start the day with a pause. That's the name of the app I use, it's called Pause. It's by this guy named John Eldredge. And, it's just basically three, five, or ten minutes. And, typically when I get out of bed or once I've done some of my stretching in my hotel room, I put it on, I typically stand in front of the window, you're looking out over the city or out of my hotel room window and I just listen that, force myself to slow down and take care of my spirit early on in the day, okay. Because that's the one part of us that's going to go on and live for eternity, and that's the one part of us that sometimes you get caught up with all the body stuff and the brain stuff and we forget, gosh, this soul, this is the eternal part of me. That's the part that you really got to make sure that you take care of. Okay. I've tried in the afternoon, evening, it's not the same. So, in the morning, in the morning is the time to do it. Okay.

So, after I've done all that, I grab a beverage, okay, typically some kind of a hot beverage, varies all the time. A lot of people think because I sell coffee and one of the things my company sells is coffee, I actually don't eat my own dog food every day. I off coffee typically two or three times a week. Sometimes a little bit more and I travel for an extra kick of caffeine which is nice because when you travel, you want that caffeine to really hit your system because you're out of your time zone, sometimes you need a little bit more energy. But typically, I'll do a little bit of lion's mane and psilocybin, or I'll do a little bit of a little kratom tea. Not the dense hyper-concentrated kratom, which is tough on the liver but just a little natural kratom powder. I'll do a little bit of the Four Sigmatic mushrooms. I really like this cacao drink made by a company called MiCacao. It's cacao nibs and cacao shells. It's drinking chocolate but it doesn't make calories in it. And, I'll add a little cayenne pepper, a little salt to that, a little stevia. It's a spicy chocolate drink. But it's my reward to myself for the meditation. I'm a big fan of giving yourself rewards for doing certain things. I think, “Okay, if I do the meditation, then I get to go and have my drugs.” Then, I'll go and get my coffee and then I head downstairs, I head downstairs to my office. And, if you guys follow me on Instagram or whatever, you've probably seen some pictures of my office. There's all the technologies in there. But the ones that I use every day is I've got a short red-light panel and a big red-light panel. The short red-light panel is in front of me so I can type. The big ones behind me, cover my whole body and I do red light therapy. And, what I do during red light therapy is I run the NanoVi and that's just the device. I don't think they're here presenting at the expo. Is NanoVi here, Tim? Okay. But they creates this beneficial reactive oxygen species production which helps with cell signaling and decreasing inflammation. So, I have one of those on my desk and I'll have a nasal cannula and put that on or I'll breathe the air through it through a little device that it has allows you to breathe the air. And then, on my head, I'll put this thing called a NanoVi, it's a cup of coffee for your skull. And, you can trigger alpha brain waves or gamma brain waves with it.

And, the NanoVi is super interesting. It's really targeted red light therapy. I think the best of the best protocol or not the NanoVi, the VieLight, the other V thing, V-I-E-Light. And so, they have a new system that I've been experimenting with because, again, this is the first time I've given this talk. This is all fresh and new stuff. And, what it is is it's a little light that goes over your gut or your thymus. Another one that triggers the vagus nerve in the back of the skull and then the full head with three lights about here and one light here, and it originally was developed for people with Alzheimer's and dementia. But it's essentially triggering the mitochondria in the neural tissue. And, I use that preventively, I use that preventively, a slightly higher genetic risk for Alzheimer's and dementia. So, what I do is I'll use just a little bit of that red light and not every day, okay. You can generate excessive reactive oxygen species and free radicals if you use the red lights too much, okay. So, I'll go 20 minutes maximum treatment time with the full-body red light, 20 minutes about three times a week with this whole VieLight setup. The one that I use is called the VieLight Duo. You can set it in alpha mode which actually works really great for sleep too if you wear it like if you're reading a book before bed or in gamma mode, which is a higher 40-hertz signal. And then, the other two that come with it, they're called the Body. So, it's this new package that that VieLight will send you so they have the head which was called the Duo and then the one that goes here, and the one that goes on the back of the head for the vagus nerve and then it has the two little nasal lights that go in your nose. And, it looks amazing. No, actually, it doesn't look amazing, it looks super nutty and dorky but it feels amazing and it really just gets your brain going. And so, that's typically what I started today.

The other thing I didn't mention is the grounding mat. There's a lot of back and forth about grounding mats and whether they're healthy or not. I think that in a properly grounded home, you're still getting subjected to some of the surges in AC electricity from the home if you're using a grounding mat and you're plugging it into the wall even in a properly grounded outlet. So, my opinion right now to play it safe is if you're going to use one of these grounding mats, I have just a little metal wire with a stake that goes out to my yard. If you have a yard that you can plug it out in. And so, I stand on that when I'm working in my office during the day which simulates me standing outside barefoot, mimicking the natural electromagnetic frequencies of the planet, okay? 

And so, that's the morning. I get up at 5:00 p.m., by the time I'm done with that stuff, it's about 11:00 or 5:00 a.m., and it's about 11:00 p.m. by the time I get done with all that stuff. So, it takes me about 16 hours to get through. I mean, any of the people who mess around, it's like brushing your teeth. Once you get all this stuff, you settle up, you don't think about it. Yeah, I just go from thing to thing and get the body all optimized. I mean, literally that's maybe an hour right there. And, if so, I can get it, but at 4:45, 5:00, I'm ready to rock and start the day at 6:00.

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We actually are kind of because then I start working. Okay, so then go downstairs I work. And so, for the first hour of my day, I'm working on the important stuff, the “eating the frog” as they say, getting them with all the proactive work. I save a lot of the reactive work, the emails, phone calls. I save a lot for the afternoon when my decision-making fatigue is a little higher. So, in the morning, I go and do all my creation, all my proactive work. And so then, I'm working typically for about an hour, an hour and a half to about 7:30 a.m. At 7:30 a.m., what I do is I gather the whole family and we meet as a family at the beginning of the day. This is actually stuff I'm super passionate about talking about right now. I'm writing a parenting book, a massive parenting book. It's called “Boundless Parenting.” And, I'm interviewing 30 different amazing parents from around the planet. I'm learning so much from all of them. It's the book that I wish had existed when I was a parent because I know my kids are going to be in prison but they wouldn't be if I'd have read this book.

And so, basically, I gather the whole family. It's important to have that team huddle at the beginning of the day. And, what we do is we go through the Spiritual Disciplines Journal which is a little journal that I wrote where you start off saying what you're grateful for that morning and you write down who you can pray or help or serve that day. I'm not a big fan of the daily affirmations that are me, me, me, I, I, I, I'm good, I'm great, I'm wonderful. And, gosh, darn it, people like me. I like the positive self-talk but it's even better to start your day back to the spirit of loving people with your purpose. You start your day by figuring out who you're going to love that day. Yeah, you won't love everybody but one person you're going to go out of your way to do something really, really special for, and you write that down in the journal. And then, we finish it and so we're meditating, we're breathing. We finish with tapping.

And, here's what's cool. So, my whole morning meditation routine that I do with my family and the evening meditation routine that I do with my family, I've actually recorded all of that. And, if you go down to the BrainTap place downstairs–and we're actually going to give one of these away today, the brain tap. My whole morning meditation routine and evening meditation routine is programmed into the BrainTap using light sound stimulation. And so, I walk you through the whole thing. That's pretty cool. And, I'm going to give one of these away at the end of my session to whoever asks the best question. And, if we don't make time for questions, I'll figure something else out whoever's got the best costume on.

So, also, there's a note on here for me. Oh, you could try it out down there and they're doing a BrainTap headset and a one-year subscription for a thousand pounds that I don't even know what a thousand pounds is. That sounds like an ass-ton of money. But anyways, they've got them down there. Yeah, the long story short though is if you're in the power user section, go to Ben Greenfield–I got three sessions. I got morning meditation, evening meditation. I put my daily prayer in there too. So, you can put it on and just blast yourself off into the spiritual universe, and works really well okay.

Okay. So, we finished with the family, we have our team huddle clap, team hug. We talk about what everybody's doing that day. And then, I'll go use the bathroom. Obviously, we like to biohack our poops as well. So, pretty straightforward here. The Squatty Potty, so you train your rectum. You guys have seen this one. It looks like you're 7-foot-tall NBA basketball player taking a poop on a toddler's toilet and your rectum isn't kinked though so it feels great. It is hard when you're traveling and you got to stack up remote controls and the hard cushions from the living room, drag the coffee table in there. But yeah, they actually make a portable Squatty Potty. But I do the Squatty Potty. Once a week, I'll do a coffee enema for the gallbladder and then the liver health. I like the orange mocha Frappuccinos for that but you could use whatever you want, preferably a black organic coffee. So, I'm a huge fan of that.

And then, the other thing that I mess around with now is pelvic relaxation neural feedback and breathing exercises. If anybody in here struggles with things like incontinence, or constipation, or anything like that, there's a special form of breathing called hypopressive breathing and some special different neural feedback exercises that you can do that really allow your pelvic muscles to relax properly when you go to the bathroom. And, it's a funny name, it's obviously for women, but I think the best book out there to learn about this stuff–I think she might actually be from the UK, the author. It's called the “Empowered Flower,” the “Empowered Flower.” It's written for women who want strong bowel vaginas, but it's also just great for anybody who wants to strengthen a lot of the pelvic musculature and learn how to control the pelvic musculature. And, I mean, a lot of transfers, everything from sports to sex to going to the bathroom, just learning how to control these muscles a little bit more effectively. And so, I do a lot of these breathing exercises and relaxation exercises. And, that really helps with the morning bowel movement.

And then, once I use the restroom, I typically try to do something easy and restorative aside from a couple days of the week, I'll do something hard in a fasted state. Why do I do something hard on a fasted state a couple of days a week?

Male:  So you can deplete your glycogen reserves.

Ben:  Kind of. That's good. He said so I can deplete my glycogen reserves. But I actually already told you guys why. Yeah, upregulate my NAD salvage pathway. So, I quit kind of stopping doing all the hard exercise in the morning. A couple days of the week, I'll do hard exercise in the morning. Rest of the days, I ease myself into the day because your body temperature, and your grip strength, and your post-workout protein synthesis, and your testosterone levels, your reaction time. Most of that peaks between about 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. in the afternoon. So, that's the better time to do your hard workout. So, in the morning, it's an easy walk in the sunshine, it's a yoga session. I use the Clearlight, the infrared sauna for that. I'll jump in a cold tub or a cold pool. And, apparently, they have cold pools here and I think they're filling them up. So, I'm going to get in later. I don't know if anybody else is going to get in, but we can we do cold pools here too which would be super fun.

And so, the cold pool and the heat, we're also walking the sunshine or some yoga flow, something easy and restorative in the morning because you're already hypercortisolic in the morning. There's some theories that you should save your cup of coffee to an hour, two hours after you get up because caffeine is hypercortisolic and why dump cortisol on top of cortisol. I don't know if there's anything to that but the idea is doing something easy and restorative in the morning is better if you have the freedom, you're scheduling to save the harder thing for later on in the day.

And then, I'll have breakfast after that. Breakfast for me and a lot of people are wondering if I'm doing the OMAD thing or the compressed feeding. I still have breakfast. I take, gosh, 15,000 steps a day and I'm physically active, I'm all over the place. I'm screaming high metabolism. I got to eat 3,500 calories a day to even keep weight on. It's a difficult problem, but somebody's got to do it, somebody's got to eat all the steaks and smoothie. So, my smoothie, I eat my own dog food. Yeah, I realize and I'm fully self-conscious that my smoothie looks like a commercial for my supplements company. But I mean, that's basically what I do is I'll do a couple of scoops of the Kion Whey Protein, I'll put a couple of scoops of the colostrum in there which is great for nourishing the gut. Typically, I'll put some aminos in there for bioavailable amino acids. They've even shown that essential amino acids combined with whey protein results in better protein synthesis than the amino acids or the protein alone, so I kind of put amino acids on top of the protein. Do some fish oil, about 4 grams of fish oil. I like to throw a little bit of ketones in there to keep my appetite satiated. I'll throw some probiotics in there, some digestive enzymes. A lot of times, I'll just blend all my supplements in with the smoothie. And then, I'll just pour that all over ice, bone broth, things like that.

And, the only thing I didn't put up here, I don't think I put it up here because I didn't want to freak you guys out too much is I do raw liver in that morning smoothie, and it's lifeblood. When I'm traveling because I don't deliver when I travel, when I get home, I drink this liver smoothie, my body's like, “What's going on?” Because what I do is I'll take liver, really good grass-fed, grass-finished liver typically from cows. I order it from U.S. Wellness Meats. If you can get good sources, there's some guys here selling liver downstairs. We can always use that as an option too or ask them where they're getting their liver. But I order it, I thaw it out and I soak it in kefir. Kefir or buttermilk has enzymes in it help to break down the liver. And then, I'll rinse it out, put it in Nutribullet, blend it up, pour it into little popsicle molds. Oh, only 10 minutes left, alright, that's okay. They say I have 10 minutes left but I'm talking tomorrow too so we can always–if we got to cut it off early, we'll just keep going tomorrow. And so, I'll put all this stuff into the smoothie, the raw liver and you freeze them and they're just amazing.

Now, the only thing is if you do a lot of organ meats, there's a great new book about this called “Drop Acid.” It's a fantastic title. It talks about the potential for uric acid if you're doing a lot of purine-rich foods, a lot of seafood, a lot of organ meats, there's an issue. I tested my uric acid levels, they're twice as high as they should be. And so, there are certain things that will help to decrease uric acid levels if you're doing a lot of organ meats. Two of the top things you can take is Quercetin. Okay, Quercetin, it's the one that's spelled with the Q. You've probably seen it before. And then, Tart Cherry, Tart Cherry. And so, if you're doing a lot of organ meats, I recommend you look into some things that will help to decrease uric acid levels or read that book, “Drop Acid.”

Okay. So, work, this is the morning work. This is basically what it looks like. I use a stand-up desk. The one I use is made by Ergonomics. I like it because it's got a little push button, I'll go up and down as you want. But if I'm sitting down, I'll use a chair that's called a saddle chair. It's designed to accustom to the shape of your pelvis really nicely or use a stool. There's one by Focal Upright called the Mogo, got a treadmill next to the desk, and a Topo mat. This is what my desk setup looks like. Right there, I'm sitting a little ergonomic bicycle that I have. But basically, the workplace ergonomics is really, really important. I think one of the best books to really wrap your head around workplace ergonomics is also by Kelly Starrett. That one's called “Deskbound.” “Deskbound.” Really, really great book for just setting everything up properly, okay. Elbows at 90 degrees, nice big monitor. I use one called a BenQ that reduces eye screen or eye strain. I use a program called Iris to also reduce eye strain and reduce the temperature of the monitor. I'm very, very conscious talking about shifting in a different position. And, even if you don't have a treadmill in your workspace, there's a lot of stuff that you can do to maximize your energy levels during a typical workday. And, I'm always taking movement snacks as well during the day, these little Pomodoro breaks.

I recently wrote an article about all the different little body movements you can do to optimize your body. If you haven't looked up GOATA yet, look up GOATA, that one's based on the principles that that if you look at little human babies or indigenous tribes, they got an interior foot rotation about 22.5 degrees, an interior hand rotation about 22.5 degrees. And so, what that means is if you can train your body to be in that position, you'll produce more force and maintain a little bit more of an elastic coil. So, these GOATA exercises are fantastic, G-O-A-T-A. I realize I'm skimming over some of this stuff, but I'm trying to give you some resources that you can then take a deeper dive into.

The hypopressive exercises I mentioned that book, “Empowered Flower,” these are exercises where you'll do, for example, a deep breath in and you hold it and then gradually let it all out, and then you do a Valsalva. And, what that does is it pulls all your pelvic muscles, pelvic organs up a little bit because as you get older, gravity starts to push all these down. Fantastic. I think especially if you're over the age of about 40, male or female and you want to really focus on pelvic and lower intestinal organ health. Learning some hypopressive breathing tactics are fantastic. And then, I do a lot of the Ben Patrick's knees-over-toe stuff these days and a lot of the core foundation exercises by Dr. Eric Goodman. These ones are really, really great for decompressing the spine in the back. Basically, it looks like this, you're in this position, you put your hands here, you stick your butt out, arch the back, and then you'll draw your hands up and bring your arms forward. And, you'll hold this position and breathe and then trace the thumbs back. Anybody who I work with who's got compressive issues or disc compression issues, we do a lot of those type of exercises and they're fantastic for eliminating low back pain. That's Dr. Eric Goodman. His book is called “True to Form.” And, he has an app called the Foundation App that works really, really well for that.

And then, light. Like I mentioned, the circadian rhythm begins at the beginning of the day. And so, a lot of people are wearing the blue light blocker glasses in the middle of the day. You don't want to do that. You want to optimize your circadian rhythm at the beginning of the day unless you're trying to phase shift your circadian rhythm forwards and reduce any exposure to blue light until later on. But basically, what I do is–you can see that little circle above my desk, that's a little blue light generator, and then if I'm traveling a lot of times, I'll use these glasses that generate a blue green light very similar to sunlight spectrum called the Re-Timers. And then, in my ears, I'll put in the Human Charger. And then, for the daytime, I'll use the RaOptics yellow lenses. I don't use the red ones until the evening. So, in the morning, I'm constantly thinking, “Okay, how can I get light, light, light, light, light, light, light?” That's a big, big focus of mine early on in the day. And then, of course, you reverse all that. Whenever the sun's about to set in whatever area of the world that you happen to be in, that's when you switch to total elimination of blue light. You take out the red headlamp, you put on the red-light glasses, you turn the red incandescent bulbs and you turn everything into torchlight or fire light.

Okay. So, then we get to midday, midday. And, again, I doubt that I'll get through all of this just to be respectful of time and make sure that the schedule stays on track. And so, I'm going to tell you about the midday. And then, I think what's probably going to work really well if you guys are cool with this since I'm on stage for the hour tomorrow is I'll finish up the presentation tomorrow and then keep going with Q&A tomorrow. And, I think that'll work really well. So, I'm glad that we got that that other session tomorrow for that.

Okay. So, lunch, what are we for lunch? My diet, and again, there's no one perfect diet for everyone. Anybody I'm writing a nutrition plan for, they do genetic testing and salivary and blood and urine, and we look at DNA, and we look at all the different things that will help us to customize. Even if you read my book, “Boundless,” there's 13 different diets at the end of my book “Boundless” with instructions. Okay, here's the diet to choose based on this blood pattern, this DNA pattern, this urine, stool. And so, the reason for that is because the dark and dirty secret in the nutrition industry is if you want to make a lot of money, you write a book and you tell people this is the one diet for all of humankind but it's just not that simple. We all have a great deal of genetic dissimilarity in the ketogenic diet that helped your neighbor lose 20 pounds might cause high cholesterol and inflammation in you because you have a poor gallbladder, a liver function, or familial hypercholesterolemia or something like that.

And so, what I do and what I feel really good on is I currently eat a largely nose-to-tail-based carnivore diet, get a lot of bone broth, a lot of bone marrow, a lot of liver, a lot of heart, kidney, I'll even do testicles, I do ribeye steaks. You name it. Nose-to-tail, carnivore-based diet, all really, really well-sourced. Most of my carbohydrates come from tubers, carrots, parsnips, beet, purple potatoes, yam, sweet potato and the like, little bit of extra carbs from raw honey and berries. And then, I dress all that up, I got two things, it's just all over my pantry. Well, three things really. I got a bunch of the Primal Kitchen condiments for the mayonnaise and the ketchup, just dress it all up. I've got a bunch of the natural cold pressed seed oils. But the only seed oils I'm going to have are ones that have not been exposed to oxidation or rancidity or a lot of heat. So, I use a company called Andreas seed oils. I'll use their flax oil, and chia seed oil, and pumpkin seed oil, and sunflower seed oil, and it's a safe seed and nut-based oil, not a lot of seed and nut-based oils are safe as I think most of you know. And, I use a bunch of the vegetable powders from Dr. Thomas Cowan. So, I'm doing very few.

I used to, back in the day, do the big kale smoothies and the giant lunchtime salads. I don't do a lot of that anymore. It's mostly meats, carnivore-based compounds, a little bit of bone broth and then I'll do a lot of these vegetable powders, and I'll do a lot of the seed oils and a little bit of primal kitchen dressing. And then, the other things that I do that work really, really well, I make collagen bites. So, I have these little Jell-o bites. So, anytime I got a midnight craving or want to snack after dinner, I literally just do homemade Jell-o. It's very easy, grass-fed gelatin over a little bit of coconut water or regular water, put any flavoring agents that you want in there, heat it up, stir it as it's heating up, pour it into little molds and you got homemade jello, and it's the most satiating stuff ever. I usually put a bunch of amino acids and collagen in there too. So, it's literally one little bite of Jell-o has as much amino acids and collagen as a giant, a 20-ounce steak. So, that's a really, really good tip. It's super satiation for the appetite, digest incredibly well.

In the evening, I'll do a little bit of chia seed slurry as well or a sea moss gel, a lot of these gel slurries. If you look at Gerald Pollack‘s research at the University of Washington on water that a lot of the water that's in a chia seed slurry or that's in a sea moss gel or even those collagen bites, it's in more of a gel-like structure, it's very, very nourishing. It's to the gut. It's very, very hydrating as well. So, thinking about getting a lot of your water from some of these water-rich slurries and puddings and things like that is a great idea.

And then, I'll do a lot of the pumpkin mash Serenity Baby Foods. It's funny I actually have baby food almost every day. There's a company called Serenity Baby Foods, they make these wonderful salmon, olive oil, grass-fed beef, beet and it's all blended up in these little pouches, I'll just open up a pouch of that and have one of those with lunch. And then, I just do a bunch of organ meat capsules, liver, heart, kidney, you name it. So, I'm getting organ meats a couple of times a day. And, that's literally my lunch every single day, something just like that feels fantastic. It's a great, great lunch, digest really well. And then, I settle in for a nap. And, for my nap, I'll do a little bit of a reishi extract. Reishi, I think, is one of the better adaptogens to take in the middle of the day that doesn't leave you sleepy because I'll typically tuck in for a 20 to 40-minute nap after lunch or some of my clients, I'll just climb under their desk at work, put on the BrainTap or put on a NuCalm or anything like that and just go to la-la land.

I typically will climb inside the hyperbaric chamber or I'll lay on the PEMF mat, which is very, very similar to the grounding mat that I talked about but it concentrates the frequencies a little bit more heavily. I'll put on, like I mentioned, the NuCalm or the BrainTap. I'll use the Apollo or the Hapbee. I didn't write it on there but another one and they're actually here at the expo called the Sensate. I'll also use that, uses the haptic sensation to lull you off into sleep. And so, I'll just hack my nap. And, in terms of the difference of just laying down and trying to sleep versus stacking a lot of that stuff and just totally shutting off the brain and shifting yourself into a relaxed state, very, very rapidly that stuff works super, super-duper well.

Okay. So, the next thing that I do is I get up and I deadlift a thousand pounds. And, no, I'm just kidding. What I'm going to do is I'm going to pause right there and we're going to pick this up tomorrow. But like I promised, now I'm going to go down to the book sign table and answer some of you guys' questions there, I'm going to leave you with bated breath for the sequel for part two. Well, I'll talk about dinner and in the afternoon and then I'll talk a lot about hacking your sleep which I know a lot of people want to know about. So, we'll cover more of that stuff. Is that cool if we keep going tomorrow during the slotted Q&A and just basically do questions as well?

But I got a BrainTap, I got a BrainTap. I am going to answer one question today, one question today. Can I give this away Nicholas to whoever asks the best question? It's worth a thousand pounds and it weighs a thousand pounds. Alright, so if you think you've got a really, really great question, I'm just to pick somebody blindly. And, it was either you or you whose hand first went up. And, because I'm a big believer in ladies first, go ahead.

Female: I'd love to know what your wife does.

Ben:  That's a sucky question. You're not getting the BrainTap. My wife, my amazing lovely beautiful angelic wife does jack shit. She didn't do anything. If I want her to do anything, I go talk to a doctor and then have the doctor talk to her. I was like leave a book laying out and pretend I wasn't the person who left the book out. Now, my wife, she plays tennis, she feeds the goats and chickens, she does a little bit of hiking. And, yeah, she's got a pretty amazing life. She just hangs out and gets her nails done. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, but she's doing all right. She doesn't do a lot of the biohacks. But I'll tell you one thing, just to give you some practical advice, one thing she does, she feels amazing. There's a protocol that she started recently. She feels amazing on libido, energy sleep, everything, and she started using the Quicksilver Scientific progesterone and DHEA. For women, especially as they age, that's a really, really great stack. It's a transdermal progesterone inside of the arm. You combine that with a little bit of the oral DHEA. Guys, the DHEA will over aromatize. Be careful with DHEA, guys. But for women, it's really, really great. So, progesterone DHEA, she does do that. She does do that. Yeah. So, anyways, you ready? Okay, here we go. Alright, good job.

More than ever these days, people like you and me need a fresh entertaining, well-informed, and often outside-the-box approach to discovering the health, and happiness, and hope that we all crave. So, I hope I've been able to do that for you on this episode today. And, if you liked it or if you love what I'm up to, then please leave me a review on your preferred podcast listening channel wherever that might be and just find the Ben Greenfield Life episode. Say something nice. Thanks so much. It means a lot.

 

 

Here, for your itching ears and supremely curious heart and mind, comes Part 1 of my talk at the Health Optimisation Summit, recently held in London by my friend and podcast guest, Tim Gray.

The Health Optimisation Summit is Europe’s largest health conference, showcasing the best speakers from the health, biohacking, fitness, longevity, nutrition, functional, and preventative medicine spaces (including yours truly) in order to provide people with the knowledge, tools, and resources to take their own health and performance to the next level.

The UK's leading biohacker, Tim Gray is known for his detailed tracking of more than 35+ biomarkers per day, is frequently in the mainstream media regarding practical, trackable, and immediately apply-able health hacks, and is featured on over 30 podcasts a year. As a psychology specialist and a successful businessman, Tim founded and invested in multiple 6-figure businesses, including digital marketing agencies and London’s first private Hyperbaric Oxygen Clinic.

After years spent self-healing his body from chronic health conditions through biohacking alone, Tim Gray embarked on a mission to educate and empower the masses. Recently, I spoke to Tim about his history, his routines, the Health Optimisation Summit, and plenty more, in a special two-part podcast episode that included an interview and then a follow-up solosode by Tim (“How UK’s Leading Biohacker Eats, Drinks, & Optimizes His Life: An Interview With Tim Gray“).

For this year's Summit, Tim actually asked me to present on “A Day in the Life of Ben Greenfield.” At first, I thought I'd be struggling to fill the time slot with just my “average day,” but then as I thought about all the hacks, routines, and rituals I do throughout my days that are now more or less automatic for me but likely something you'll be quite interested in, I realized it might not be quite as simple as it sounds!

In fact, like I needed to do with Tim's podcast, I had to split my talk up and finish presenting about a “typical” day in Part 2, which is the next episode you'll see released on the podcast feed. You can also go here to get all of the resources from my talk at the Summit.

Enjoy!

In this episode, you'll discover:

-How to look at the body as a battery…08:21

  • We use biohacks, live an optimized life so we can have energy to live our purpose in life
  • Ikigai 2.0 – purpose statement
  • Maximize your life span so you can help as many people as possible

-Ben's morning routine…12:18

-Family time in the morning and the morning smoothie…42:29

-How Ben optimizes his workspace…51:27

-Midday routines and rituals…55:29

-Audience question: “What does your wife do?”…1:01:58

  • Quicksilver Scientific Progesterone and DHEA (use code GREENFIELD10 to save 10%)

-And much more…!

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