In this episode, we sit down with Ben Greenfield to talk about some of the weirdest things he does to stay off the grid in his home in the middle of nowhere, Washington. We talk about how he built a solar powered home, the weird things he's doing to keep the lights on in his house, and what he's up to these days. We also talk about the new game, Techno Hunt, and some other cool stuff that's going on in the world, like structured water and other cool things that don't really need to be talked about. Enjoy the episode, and spread the word to your friends about this podcast! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! or wherever else you get your stuff. Thanks for listening, and Happy listening! Timestamps: 1:00 - How do you feel about this episode? 2:30 - What do you think of it? 3:40 - Is it weird? 4:20 - What are you looking forward to the future of the podcast? 5:15 - What would you like to see in the future? 6:00 7:00- What kind of water? 8:10 - What is your favorite type of water bottle? 9:10 10:30- What santa? 11: What s your favorite beverage? 12:30 13: How does it taste like? 15:00 + 15: what s your favourite type of ice cream? 16: Is it better than a glass tube? 17:50 - What s it's your favorite thing? 18:30 + 16:00 What s a good thing to drink? 19:00 Can you tell me what you're going to drink in a glass or glass vane? 20:00 Do you have a favorite piece of ice cube? 21: Is there something you're looking for? 22: What is a good piece of water that s better than another piece of glass? 25:00 Are you looking for me? 26:00 Is there a better than that? 27:30 What s the best thing you would like me to drink a glass of ice in your home?
00:01:52.000Well, I actually just read, there's a really good new book that came out.
00:01:56.000It's called The Non-Tinfoil Hat Guide to EMF. I think it's the full title of the book.
00:02:02.000But it goes into this idea of what are called voltage-gated calcium channels on your cell membrane, and all those actually get affected by Wi-Fi.
00:02:11.000And apparently you see a change in In the electrochemical balance across the actual membrane in response to things like Wi-Fi, apparently Bluetooth affects red blood cells, and I haven't seen a lot of like actual, you know, in vivo research on that,
00:02:26.000but I know that I feel better when I don't have like the Wi-Fi router going or, you know, I turn off all my...
00:02:55.000I mean, the idea behind it, there's this cat up at University of Washington named Dr. Gerald Pollack, and he has done this research that shows, like, in plants or vessels, like blood vessels, for example, there's an exclusion zone of water.
00:03:09.000I mean, there's like a positive charge on the inside and a negative charge on the outside.
00:03:41.000Well, I interviewed that guy, Gerald Pollack, and he has compared...
00:03:45.000Basically, what he's compared is, like, how it moves in glass tubes and how if you structure it and you watch it, like, the water moves up through the glass tube way, way better.
00:03:54.000And then I interviewed this guy, Thomas Cowan, and he talks about how the heart is not really a pump or doesn't act as much like a pump as we're led to believe.
00:04:03.000And so if you drink structured water, apparently the blood moves better through the vessels.
00:04:10.000I haven't seen a ton of research on it, but I structure my water just because it's cheap.
00:04:14.000It's like this tiny little plastic piece that you put on your water filter.
00:04:24.000So it comes out of my well, and I tested my water, and I've got a bacteria-based iron.
00:04:32.000High levels of manganese like I thought well water was just all like pristine clear like you know like if you drink out of a spring on top of a mountain, but Apparently there's there's crap in the well water So I filter it and then after it all filters it passes through the structured water filter I would imagine that you would get some stuff in the water because if somewhere along the line there's like a dead animal or beaver fever Yeah,
00:04:57.000there's dead animals all over my house, just piled everywhere.
00:06:27.000And unfortunately, there's been a terrible myth that's been perpetrated a long time ago that salt gives you high blood pressure and it kills you.
00:06:35.000That's a real tragedy because that's one of those ones that it was spread in probably, what was it, the 60s or the 70s when they started telling people that salt causes high blood pressure?
00:06:54.000Yeah, I've heard of the book, but I don't know the name of it either.
00:06:56.000But it depends, too, because I used to do racing for Team Timex.
00:07:00.000I used to do these Ironman triathlons, and they'd bring people in to test us.
00:07:04.000And they would do sweat-sodium analyses, where you actually get a patch put on your skin, and it measures the amount of sodium released over X surface area of skin.
00:07:12.000And then there's an algorithm that determines how much total sweat you lose, say, per hour during exercise.
00:07:18.000And some people lose a copious amount of sodium in their sweat, and some lose barely any at all.
00:07:22.000So you have like a sodium conservation mechanism that differs from person to person.
00:07:26.000So there might be some people who store salt really well who might actually get higher blood pressure if they consume a lot of salt.
00:07:33.000So if you had a massive excess of salt in your time.
00:07:36.000Yeah, my numbers were off the charts though in terms of how much sodium I was losing, which is probably why I feel so good.
00:08:19.000And I've heard, I don't know if this is true, But I heard that if you come from an area, like if your ancestry is from an area where they did a lot of that fermenting, pickling, curing, salting, that you have more robust sodium loss mechanisms.
00:08:36.000Like on Northern European heritage, they did a lot of pickling, salting, curing.
00:08:40.000So I would lose more salt than somebody who might have come from, let's say, like a Sub-Saharan African or Southeast Asian or somewhere where they might not have been using so much salt.
00:09:07.000But the Wi-Fi, it sounds hippy-dippy, but if you go somewhere like Prince of Wales, Alaska, and you're on a mountaintop, it feels different.
00:10:35.000There's other methods of measuring it as well?
00:10:38.000Oh yeah, like you can use a Bluetooth-enabled heart rate monitor strap.
00:10:41.000That's what I used to do is you wake up in the morning, you put on the strap, and you test your heart rate variability.
00:10:45.000And it tells you, you know, if it's low, you might say, okay, well, today is going to be like a yoga day or an easy swim or a walk in the sunshine.
00:10:53.000And if it's high, then that would be a day where you'll do like kettlebell training or a WOD or whatever it is that you're going to do.
00:11:39.000And you do that day after day, you get injured.
00:11:42.000And the weird thing is that you can have no musculoskeletal soreness.
00:11:46.000Because a lot of time that subsides, you know, delayed onset muscle soreness, you see that disappear after like 48 hours.
00:11:51.000And if you've crushed yourself, like we can talk about this later if you want, but I've been doing single set to failure.
00:11:56.000Single set to failure exercises where it's just like a 15 minute long workout, but it's just full on isometrics as hard as you can go for 60 seconds to two minutes.
00:12:05.000So you're pushing against, it's like this force plate machine that you push against and you just generate as much force as you can and it ties to your iPhone and it alerts you when you've dropped off 60% of what you're originally producing at the beginning of the set.
00:12:34.000So for example, you'll have like a bar that you're holding onto, and the bar is attached to the force plate via two stands, like two pillars on either side of the bar.
00:12:45.000And you pull the bar, and then the force plate detects how much force you're pulling.
00:12:49.000And what position are you in in the deadlift or the bottom position?
00:12:51.000You're standing on top of the force plate.
00:12:52.000You're supposed to choose the hardest position of each exercise.
00:12:56.000So if I'm bench pressing, it's like my elbows are slightly bent as though I'm just near the top.
00:13:01.000Or squatting, it's like the knees are bent at about 30, 40 degrees.
00:13:05.000So you get into that position, then you generate as much force as possible for 60 seconds.
00:13:10.000When I first did it, I was at 30 seconds.
00:13:12.000Now I can go a little bit over a minute where I can continue to generate As much force as possible before it drops off to just 60% of what I was originally producing.
00:13:21.000It's a cool, efficient way to train, but you don't get that sore afterwards, right?
00:13:25.000So musculoskeletal soreness is not a good indicator of recovery in many cases.
00:13:29.000And that's where this HRV thing comes in, is your nervous system, right?
00:13:33.000Your central nervous system, your neuromuscular system can be really beat up after a workout, even if the soreness has subsided.
00:13:40.000So that's where you use something like HRV and you can say, okay, well, I'm not sore, but my HRV is still low.
00:13:45.000So this is going to be an easy day for me.
00:13:47.000I'm sorry to act like a moron, but explain that one more time.
00:13:49.000So if your body is not sore, but your HRV is low, what is it showing?
00:14:16.000I've never even heard of someone doing that before.
00:14:17.000And that's where something like an HRV measurement comes in.
00:14:19.000And coming full circle, I've noticed when I do those morning measurements and I'm traveling or I've got the Wi-Fi enabled at my house, my HRV is low.
00:14:27.000So it's affecting my nervous system somehow.
00:15:04.000This ring, I bought this in Finland like three years ago because I wanted like a body tracking device.
00:15:09.000I want to track my HRV and I want to track my sleep cycles, but I don't like sleeping all night because I sleep with my hand tucked down by my dick.
00:15:36.000Because if it was on my wrist or on my finger or wherever.
00:15:38.000So this has a built-in computer, and you can put it in airplane mode.
00:15:42.000And it'll still collect all the HRV data and everything else.
00:15:44.000Then when you want to take it out of airplane mode and sync it to your phone and upload all your sleep data or your HRV data or anything else, you can do it.
00:15:51.000So that's why I wear this ring instead of like a Fitbit or a Jawbone or Jamie's stupid Apple Watch.
00:15:59.000I never know whether or not I'm being ridiculous with this stuff, like with worrying about phones being in your pocket if you have butt cancer.
00:16:06.000You know, because some dude told me that once, that he got cancer.
00:16:09.000I think it was testicle cancer on his right side.
00:16:12.000And the guy was saying, do you keep your phone in your right pocket?
00:16:28.000But I think there was a class action lawsuit there because I think they tested the water and there was whatever the fuck the stuff that they used for fertilizer or pesticides.
00:17:01.000And now he can beat me with his four-foot-tall fisticuffs.
00:17:06.000Anyways, though, so they had me go around doing everything that a guy could do to enhance sexual performance or increase the size of your dick or increase blood flow or increase orgasm quality.
00:17:16.000They just wanted to find out what everything from, like, freaking gas station dick pills to—which, by the way, those things do not have in them what they say they have in them.
00:17:26.000So they say, like, Epimedium and Urokema Long Jack— Right.
00:17:34.000It's basically freaking sildenafil, the active ingredient in Cialis or Viagra, and then ephedra and copious amounts of caffeine.
00:17:41.000So I would take these things and just literally feel like my head was going to explode.
00:17:44.000I mean, it's like drinking 10 cups of coffee.
00:17:47.000Yeah, we have a friend of ours who predicted accurately that John Jones was taking those things when he pissed hot because he was like, those things have everything in them.
00:19:02.000You go down there, and I walk in, and the first thing they do is they hand me this syringe full of numbing cream, and I'm supposed to just put it everywhere, and so I smeared it.
00:19:12.000My balls, I just went everywhere, because I didn't really know what they were going to do, and I wanted all shields activated going into this thing.
00:19:20.000So I walk into the room and my dick's all numb.
00:19:23.000They have me lay down and so my legs are splayed.
00:19:26.000I'm on this exam room table and this gal comes in and she's got like this giant wand attached to a machine.
00:19:31.000And they do this for women too, by the way.
00:19:33.000They put like a condom on the end of it.
00:19:35.000And she just basically goes to town for like 20 minutes like a jackhammer.
00:19:39.000It was like brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr And then they follow it up,
00:21:55.000They have their blinker on for like two miles before they turn, but their dicks are primed.
00:22:00.000So the stem cell thing was at the U.S. Stem Cell Clinic in Florida, and I went in there, and they extract all the fat.
00:22:09.000For me, they took the fat out of my back.
00:22:12.000And what they do is they have—it's called an enzymatic process where they use something that breaks down the collagen in the fat, and then they have the stem cells that get separated from the fat.
00:22:27.000And apparently it's very, very high in these angiogenic, like vascular or vessel-building compounds.
00:24:10.000So I was kind of like the guinea pig for this.
00:24:12.000So do you have to explain to him what areas you're supposed to inject into?
00:24:15.000No, he researched it, and I think he actually talked to the folks at the stem cell clinic beforehand to make sure that they were on the same page.
00:24:22.000So I didn't want to fly all the way back down to Florida.
00:25:02.000Like, coming back, my flight got delayed, and I was covered in all these, because it's like an off-road triathlon, and I had all these scrapes and wounds.
00:25:11.000I don't remember where but I had to check in the hotel if I got delayed and I slept in this hotel room that I swear like there must have been something on the bed because within a few days like it was all you know it gets all nasty and cakey and then it was eating a hole.
00:25:23.000I wrote a whole blog post about this on my website and you can see pull up the hole in the back of my leg it's nasty.
00:26:54.000Yeah, so I think the stem cells kind of like stick with you.
00:26:57.000Well, last week I got them, I told you I'm training for the RKC kettlebell cert and I was doing the 100 reps in five minutes snatch test with the one and a half food and I felt something just go.
00:27:10.000I was at 84 reps and I felt something go in my back and I got stem cells injected all up and down my QL, my multifidus, my rectospinae into my psoas.
00:27:20.000But then they also sent them to my house, and I did that same fat cell, the stuff that's rich in the mesenchymal stem cells, into the bloodstream.
00:27:29.000So I did a push IV into the bloodstream.
00:27:32.000That's the one that you would have to go out of the country.
00:27:35.000That's the one you gotta go to Panama for.
00:27:39.000It's technically not legal for someone to inject you with your own stem cells into your bloodstream, but if you get your stem cells extracted and they're stored and they send them to you, you can technically inject them if you do it yourself or you have a friend who's a nurse or whatever.
00:27:52.000And it's literally just like a push IV. It's like 30 seconds.
00:27:55.000We caught it on video for men's health films.
00:27:58.000So they'll publish a video at some point, but I was super nervous because it's like a few thousand dollars worth of stem cells that You know, I'm trying to hit the vein and make sure that they go in the right way and then inject.
00:29:19.000Yeah, I've had some friends that have got staff in their leg where they have a small golf ball-sized hole in their leg, and they literally had a packet full of that kind of gauze covered in medicine.
00:29:28.000I don't like how you say a small golf ball is a big hole for the back of the leg.
00:29:32.000Yeah, that's a golf ball, but it's smaller than a golf ball.
00:30:10.000And I don't know if he didn't treat it quick enough, or I don't know if it was just really aggressive, but it's a real common thing in gyms.
00:30:18.000And once you get it, it stays with you, like it stays in your bloodstream.
00:30:22.000I still have an essential oil diffuser on my desk, and I put thieves in it every day, and I just diffuse essential oils while I'm working into the air.
00:30:30.000Yeah, it's like a nebulizing essential oil diffuser, just to play it safe.
00:30:34.000I just want to be breathing that in during the day, just in case.
00:30:50.000They've done these studies on testicular and sperm production, and they've found that there's a wavelength that's like 600 to 800 nanometers wavelength of light.
00:30:59.000That if you expose the testicles to that for 5 to 20 minutes a day, it's based on this concept of photobiomodulation.
00:31:05.000So I originally got into this whole photobiomodulation thing when this company, because I blog and people just send me these weird things to my doorstep to try.
00:31:15.000And they sent me this like nasal probe that you put up your nose and it's got like a helmet on it.
00:31:20.000You could look it up, Jamie, if you want.
00:32:40.000So this photobiomodulation, I'm putting this thing, you know, the probe in my ear, and you're not even supposed to use it too much because it produces so much ATP that if you amp up cellular activity and neural tissue too much, you produce too many reactive oxygen species.
00:32:54.000Like, that's a byproduct of cellular metabolism.
00:32:56.000It's just like if you eat too much, you produce a lot of byproduct of making energy, and that's one of the reasons why fasting is good for you.
00:33:03.000It cleans up the system and you don't make as many free radicals.
00:33:06.000The same reason ketosis is good for you.
00:33:27.000This was a couple years, and it was like a cup of coffee for my brain.
00:33:29.000Like, every time I'd wake up, I'd put this thing on while I'm working at my desk.
00:33:32.000So then, this company that makes these lights that are very similar activate cytochrome C oxidase, It activates release of nitric oxide, but if you do it on your testicles, specifically the cell that it works on is the latig cells in the testes,
00:33:47.000which are responsible for producing testosterone.
00:33:49.000So you're basically stimulating the latig cells in the testes the same way that you'd stimulate neural tissue using this one for your head.
00:33:56.000So I'd had success with the thing for my head, so I tried this one for the balls in the dick, and what I did was I would just jack my pants down.
00:34:03.000For 5 to 20 minutes a day while I'm diffusing my essential oils and I got the thing on my head.
00:35:01.000So PRP injections, acoustic sound wave therapy, stem cells, the infrared light, the gas station dick pills, and that's the one I would not repeat.
00:35:10.000And then they had me do some Ayurvedic stuff, like the no ejaculation thing, which is horrible, like where you have sex, but you pull out.
00:35:48.000Like, when you internalize the orgasm, when you keep it inside?
00:35:52.000So this is all based on Chinese medicine principles.
00:35:56.000I think it's called your jinn, or your jing, or something like that.
00:36:01.000You have this energy, you know, your chi, your prana, your chakra, your life force, and apparently orgasming is and coming, like ejaculating, is supposedly one of the ways that you give some of that life force away, like you release some of your vitality.
00:36:34.000I found tables where based on your age, there's a certain frequency with which you're supposed to ejaculate.
00:36:41.000The younger you are, it's like every two days, every three days, and the older you get, it gets to a certain point where you're 70 years old and it's like every month or something like that.
00:36:56.000Yeah, I wonder if that's a preconceived prejudice that you have, though.
00:37:01.000Like, I wonder if you just went into it, like, completely objectively, if it would have some sort of a benefit.
00:37:04.000Or maybe you just get, like, mineral depleted and you lose all your zinc and everything else you need to make sperm and you start to cramp up.
00:38:58.000This was, like, several months ago, right?
00:39:00.000This was, like, starting, I got the stem cells extracted in August of 2017. So this is, like, the end of January.
00:39:08.000And then eight weeks later, I got those shot into the dick.
00:39:10.000So we're only dealing with a couple months.
00:39:11.000Six months later, after they'd really grown a lot of these mesenchymal stem cells, I got them injected into my bloodstream and into, like, that injury that I'm fighting in my back right now.
00:39:22.000And I'd done some other things before that for the back and for tissue, like peptides, like this BPC-157.
00:39:29.000That we were just talking about before the show.
00:39:31.000Yeah, which is really interesting stuff.
00:39:33.000I mean, it's not intended for human consumption, but it's also not banned by WADA. I mean, actually, it's legal to use, and it's a peptide.
00:40:11.000So they took this same thing that helps to heal the human gut, which is why if you were to consume this in drinking water, supposedly, and this is in rodent models, it apparently works to heal up an inflamed gut, you know, colitis, IBD, IBS, stuff like that.
00:40:25.000But you can inject it into a joint or subcutaneously into an area around a joint.
00:40:31.000And it supposedly stimulates the, I feel like this is a repetitive phrase on this show, the growth of new blood vessels.
00:41:45.000I don't know the protocol that used to grow the stem.
00:41:48.000Like I know the fat one, they use like a collagenase procedure that enzymatically breaks down the collagen from the fat and somehow concentrates the stem cells.
00:42:22.000But I've been obstacle course racing, and I was a triathlete before that and did bodybuilding, so I've always done all this masochistic shit.
00:43:09.000You can see the areas where there's swelling or there's like a black area where the tissue is torn up or where there's edema or inflammation.
00:43:16.000And you can, and he showed me the video after he did all the injections.
00:43:21.000You can see the needle going into the...
00:43:24.000You can micro-target exactly, exactly where you want to put the cells.
00:44:04.000I mean, obviously I'm not a doctor, but according to these doctors that do it, and there's a place in Santa Monica that does it called Lifespan Medicine.
00:45:34.000And you get all these pops up and down your neck, and it apparently realigns the atlas and the axis and some of the cervical vertebrae, and there's probably a bunch of chiropractic docs who are really pissed off right now because I'm describing this incorrectly, but it feels amazing.
00:48:00.000I don't remember how I heard about it, but I interviewed this guy named Jacob Schoen on my podcast, and he taught me all these moves and came to my house.
00:48:09.000And it's another one of those really cool forms of stretching.
00:49:04.000I go in there, and this is when I do a lot of this stuff, right?
00:49:07.000Like I'll do some of my yoga moves, some of my aldoa.
00:49:10.000There's another really good form of stretching called core foundation, a doc named Eric Goodman, and it's like a form of decompression for the spine.
00:49:20.000It kind of like turns on your glutes, decompresses your spine.
00:49:23.000So I just use a mashup of all these little moves, and I'll be in my sauna for like 30 minutes.
00:49:29.000So I'm producing all the heat shock proteins, I'm getting the nitric oxide, getting the blood flow, and you just feel good when you do the sauna.
00:49:37.000So I get all sweaty, and I get kind of woo-woo, I'll sprinkle essential oils in there, and I'll burn like Palo Santo incense and put on...
00:51:01.000No, it's too much to go back and forth.
00:51:04.000I've got to keep things somewhat, because this is getting kind of complex between the light and the balls and the essential oils.
00:51:09.000You've got to draw the line somewhere.
00:51:12.000Sometimes I'll have friends over and we'll vape or we'll smoke in the sauna and then we'll go out to the pool and then go roll around in the snow, then get back in the pool, then go back in the sauna.
00:51:22.000I do this, and my wife is inside making dinner, and we just feel amazing.
00:51:27.000We got the hot, we got the cold, and then we go in and we eat dinner.
00:51:31.000It's my favorite thing to do with my friends.
00:51:32.000But in the morning, I do the sauna, and then the ice, or the cold pool, and then I finish with a quick dip in the hot tub out in the trees, because I put a hot tub next to the cold pool.
00:52:24.000Well, I was speaking in, that's why I'm down here, I was speaking in Costa Mesa a couple days ago, and there was like this banquet dinner as part of the event, and I was sitting next to this guy, and I'm like, well, what do you do for your fitness routine, et cetera?
00:52:35.000He does Bikram yoga every day, but like the Bikram yoga, like all of the poses that are part of Bikram yoga, because it's a set series of routines.
00:53:12.000I don't like to overdo it, though, because it's static stretching, and we know that can decrease force potential.
00:53:17.000It can decrease power production if you become too pliable, too flexible.
00:53:21.000Isn't that the case, though, pre-workout?
00:53:23.000Well, it's the case pre-workout, but chronically, if you elongate tissue, and I don't know if they've actually done any studies on people who have done yoga for a really long time and compared their vertical jump before and after...
00:53:37.000But I just feel almost too stretchy if I get too into it.
00:53:42.000Like, I feel like when I run, it's a little bit more like Gumby running versus limiting the amount of yoga that I do.
00:53:54.000Right, like prior to things like squats or something like that.
00:53:57.000It was like when the lights went out during the Super Bowl a few years ago, you remember that?
00:54:01.000And you could see on TV, both teams were just like standing on the sidelines or sitting on the sidelines doing these long hamstring static stretches.
00:54:10.000And I wondered why they were doing that, because they were about to get back in and engage in a very powerful explosive sport.
00:54:17.000So yeah, it's dynamic stretching, definitely, prior to forced production activities.
00:57:13.000I mean, you know this, the skin is a mouth.
00:57:15.000Yeah, but I mean, it gets all the way into your internal organs?
00:57:17.000I don't know if it actually goes into the actual stomach, like through the epithelial lining and into the actual intestine, but it has an effect, for sure.
00:57:28.000You know what I just started using recently is topical CBD. I got some topical CBD and like a roll-on, almost like a deodorant roll-on kind of a thing.
01:00:08.000Yeah, I know you guys don't melt a lot of ice in California, but, like, in Washington State, you can buy magnesium chloride, but, like, a freaking, like, concrete-sized bag, a concrete-mixed-sized bag of it, and it's the same stuff that they sell on these expensive websites as, like, magnesium salts.
01:02:54.000And you blend this, and it blends on top of your counter for like eight hours, and all this stuff mixes together, and then you pour it into molds, and you can just put it in the freezer, and then I keep it in these little Miran glass jars so it doesn't degrade, and it's just like the best edible ever.
01:03:09.000So I should try some before a float tank sometime.
01:03:15.000So I get these ideas when I'm in the float tank.
01:03:19.000And I want to, and usually it's like 5 or 10 minutes in.
01:03:23.000So I spend the next 50 minutes trying to remember, like, don't forget this, don't forget.
01:03:27.000And I try like these little mnemonic techniques where you imagine like, you know, like an image of what you remembered is waiting for you outside the door as soon as you open the float tank.
01:04:29.000Well, they make these LED, you know, they're like, you know, because when I travel, I don't like to get all the blue light in the hotel rooms and I'll unplug things.
01:04:38.000I try to make the hotel room dark, right?
01:04:39.000Because when you flip off the lights in a hotel room, it's just like freaking Vegas, right?
01:04:43.000There's blue lights on the TV and stuff flashing, you know, all over the place.
01:04:47.000So they make these, and I had it for a while.
01:04:49.000I don't travel with it anymore, but it's like a black tape.
01:04:50.000You can put over things that light up in a room.
01:05:28.000I raced Ironman Triathlon for eight years and just got tons of sensory depth in the water just staring at that black line at the bottom of the pool.
01:05:37.000It's hard for me to just get in water and relax and not feel like I have to swim.
01:05:41.000I've never been able to get that relaxed.
01:05:53.000I read this book, Deep, by James Nestor.
01:05:56.000Amazing book about all these cool things when you go down deep.
01:06:00.000And he talks about how Olympic athletes are using this now to enhance their performance because your spleen compresses and you produce more erythropoietin, more red blood cells.
01:06:09.000If you sauna, like if you do a workout and you get really hot and then you go in the sauna after, they've done studies on this and they found that 30 minutes of heat therapy after you've already gotten the body hot, you produce EPO the same as if you were to use the performance enhancing drug.
01:06:24.000There was a study that just came out about cryotherapy, and this echoes something that Rhonda Patrick was saying, that if you do cryo, her advice was you should wait at least an hour after a workout before you do it and allow your body to have some sort of effect from the exercise.
01:06:42.000But sauna, they're saying you should do almost immediately after.
01:06:46.000So the idea with this, and there was a brand new study that just came out like three days ago where they showed that heat post-exercise enhanced the effects of exercise, whereas cold blunted the hormetic response to exercise, which makes sense.
01:07:21.000There's no research on the amount of time.
01:07:22.000For me, what I do, same thing when I do a hard afternoon workout.
01:07:26.000I wait a couple hours afterwards because you get a bigger testosterone and growth hormone response when you wait after workout to eat.
01:07:34.000Actually, Mark Sisson was the first guy who told me about this, and it turns out that there actually is a better hormonal response when you fast post-exercise.
01:08:13.000Yeah, Kelly Starrett sent me one of those things.
01:08:16.000Yeah, and the cool thing is like your partner can put their temperature on and I can put my temperature on and you can sleep at whatever temp you want.
01:08:59.000And there was a study they did last month on this that cold water immersion was very effective in reducing post-workout muscle soreness and that inflammatory response to exercise compared to cryotherapy.
01:09:09.000But again, you should wait a little bit before you do it.
01:09:11.000You should wait a little bit before you do it, but I think part of that is due to you get like this hydrostatic pressure of water against the skin, right?
01:09:17.000So it kind of pushes the cold against the skin a little bit better.
01:09:20.000And then the other reason is that when your head gets wet, when your head goes under, you know, same thing as you would get with a cold shower, you get like this mammalian dive reflex, right?
01:09:29.000Intake of breath, and that activates your vagus nerve.
01:09:33.000So we talked about HRV and heart rate variability tracking.
01:09:37.000Anytime you do something like that, that improves the tone of the vagus nerve, you would actually improve your ability to recover and improve the strength of your nervous system.
01:09:47.000Vagal nerve stimulators and they've looked into like chanting, humming, singing, jaw, they call it jaw realignment therapy, apparently removes the pressure that the trigeminal nerve can place on the vagus nerve.
01:10:02.000There's all these things you can do to enhance the health It's a vagus nerve.
01:10:05.000And that's one of the things that improves your HRV or your heart rate variability.
01:10:09.000It allows your sympathetic and your parasympathetic nervous system to be more balanced.
01:10:12.000But when you're saying tone, what do you mean by that?
01:10:14.000The tone of the nerve, it would basically be synonymous with the health of the nerve.
01:10:20.000I don't know if it's changing the myelin sheaths of the nerve or something like that when you're increasing the tone of the nerve.
01:10:30.000More or less, it's healthy for the vagus nerve when you get your head wet or underwater.
01:10:36.000So when I go in my cold pool after workout, I put my head under and then come up like five or ten times just to go up and down and up and down.
01:10:44.000And if I'm going to do a longer cold soak, it's not right after workout.
01:10:48.000The two studies I found on antioxidant use after workout, right?
01:10:55.000High-dose antioxidant like vitamin C, vitamin E, etc.
01:10:57.000That supposedly blunts the hormetic response to exercise.
01:11:00.000But there was one study that shows that green tea polyphenols don't do that.
01:11:05.000So green tea would allow you to fight off the inflammatory effects of exercise without blunting, for example, satellite cell proliferation or building of new mitochondria or all of the things that you want to happen in response to a workout.
01:11:39.000They don't have a financial affiliation with any of these companies, so I respect some of the research that they do.
01:11:44.000And they've found that it actually blunts or it allows for anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects to shut down like the inflammatory response to exercise without blunting the hormetic response.
01:11:55.000It would be like green tea and molecular hydrogen would be the two things that I know of that you could do post-workout to blunt that inflammatory response without actually blunting the hormetic response to exercise.
01:12:13.000One of the things I think that's probably really good about cold immersion therapy also, I think there's a meditative aspect of getting into that incredible cold and just relaxing and calming and I think it does something for your mind.
01:12:25.000It does, and it's the nervous system, right?
01:12:28.000What I tell people is you have a strong, and I take my kids out there, and I've trained them since a very early age.
01:12:33.000They go out there, they jump in the cold pool, but they'll stand in front of the cold pool and calm their nervous system, calm their heart rate.
01:12:41.000One of them visualizes a sea otter, and the other one does a polar bear.
01:12:45.000So they'll visualize these animals that are just impervious to cold.
01:12:49.000And then they get in the water, and they know there's no sharp intake of breath, there's no Like people do when they take a cold shower a lot of the time.
01:12:57.000If you can get your body to that point, I think that it probably has a pretty—it's a good indicator that you're building that nervous system resilience, right?
01:13:06.000Like if you can just get in cold and not freak out.
01:13:08.000So that's what I think people who do cold should train themselves to be able to do.
01:13:12.000I've heard that argument about the sauna as well, that it also builds like a mental toughness to be able to just sit in there and calm yourself and get used to the adverse...
01:13:22.000Get to the point where you want to bang down the door and climb out.
01:13:25.000And yeah, that's what I like to get myself to in the sauna.
01:13:28.000Because obviously you get a bigger expression of heat shock protein and more blood flow when you get really hot.
01:13:32.000But yeah, there's a mental effect, too.
01:16:49.000Took me from 15 feet over five days down to 80 feet where you're like, you actually, they put a rope in the water and you go vertical and you have like your, you know, the big fins, like you have the big fins and you have the mask.
01:17:31.000And now, when I spearfish, and I still, again, I haven't got to the point where I've gone, like, I go after the grouper and the parrotfish, like the little ones.
01:17:40.000I haven't gotten to the point now where I'm hunting the big fish.
01:18:19.000Like, you're just at peace under the water.
01:18:22.000You're not wearing all the scuba equipment, so fish swim up to you, and you can kind of, like, lay on the bottom of the water and, you know, shoot something as it comes.
01:18:30.000And I go with my kids, and they, like, sit on the shore with, like, buckets and knives, and, you know, they'll help brain the fish, and then we take it back, and you have, like, fish cook-offs.
01:18:47.000Well, it's a great workout, because not only are you cold, so you're getting all the benefits of cold thermogenesis, you know, like the white adipose to brown fat conversion, and the shivering, and the calorie burning, and, you know, the Angiogenesis and all the stuff you get from cold, but then you're also, you're freaking hunting,
01:19:39.000Yeah, it seems like an interesting mental exercise too because you have to keep your shit together while you're underwater and you want to take a breath.
01:19:49.000That's why this guy sent me down to Fort Lauderdale, because this guy, he teaches safety, right?
01:19:54.000You don't do, like, the Wim Hof breathing and blow off all the carbon dioxide so you can hold your breath longer, which is great for holding your breath longer, but carbon dioxide is your body's signal to take a breath.
01:20:46.000Dominique D'Agostino, he's done research on divers and reducing a lot of the effects of reduced flow of oxygen to the brain that apparently these Navy SEAL divers get.
01:20:58.000And he does research on the use of ketosis and ketones.
01:21:02.000And one of the days that we were out there, I actually took ketones and they increased my breath hold time just using these exogenous ketones.
01:21:12.000I don't know if it's because the brain is using more of the ketones and the glucose, but they increase breath hold time.
01:21:16.000Yeah, they came up with that for rebreathers, right?
01:21:19.000Like, that's when they started getting people, yeah, Navy SEAL divers, when they're using rebreathers, apparently, a certain percentage of them are susceptible to seizures.
01:21:26.000Yeah, and they use, you know, well, two things, you know, ketosis and CBD are two things that are used for, like, epilepsy and seizures.
01:21:35.000Yeah, yeah, ketosis supposedly has an amazing effect with kids, kids that have seizures.
01:21:40.000I did 12 months of, like, strict ketosis.
01:21:58.000And he had one group of athletes follow just a normal endurance athlete diet for 12 months.
01:22:04.000And another group follow like a high-fat, low-carb, ketogenic diet for 12 months because he wanted to see if you would maintain your glycogen levels and if your performance would be synonymous to the group that did not eat the high-fat, low-carb diet,
01:22:20.000what would happen to inflammatory markers, what would happen to the gut microbiome.
01:22:25.000A lot of these studies on high-fat, low-carb diets, they'll follow people for two weeks or three days and have them eat high-fat, low-carb, and then see what happens when they go jam on a bike for 30 minutes or exercise, but they want to do a long-term study to see if the body can adapt to burning fats as a fuel with long-term utilization of a high-fat diet,
01:22:54.000Oh, like red wine, dark chocolate, tubers, starches, yams, sweet potatoes.
01:22:58.000My wife's a cook, so she does this amazing slow-fermented sourdough bread, which pre-digests all the gluten and lowers the glycemic index.
01:23:07.000It's pretty much quinoa, amaranth, milk.
01:23:09.000I don't follow a specific diet in terms of restricting certain food groups.
01:23:13.000My philosophy is you just make them digestible.
01:23:16.000I've read that about eating carbs at night, that it's a good thing to relax here as Well, technically, you're more insulin sensitive in the morning, but you can make yourself more insulin sensitive in the evening.
01:23:30.000And the advantage of that is if you consume a bunch of your carbohydrates in the morning when you're in an insulin sensitive state, what are you going to rely upon as your primary fuel during the rest of the day?
01:23:41.000Instead of teaching your body how to be a fat-burning machine and tap into fats and generate ketones.
01:23:45.000So you save your carbohydrate intake for the end of the day, but I also save my hard workout for the end of the day, which is when your body temperature peaks and your grip strength peaks.
01:24:04.000Like, you can do a pretty good hard workout, like in the later afternoon or the evening when you're warmed up.
01:24:08.000But that also upregulates insulin sensitivity and the activity of these GLUT4 transporters that can, you know, shove glucose into muscle tissue, for example.
01:24:16.000And so then you can have your cake and eat it too, right?
01:24:19.000You create your own insulin-sensitive state and then you go off.
01:24:23.000And typically I'll finish that workout around like 6, 6.30, right?
01:24:27.000And like I mentioned, I don't eat dinner for a couple hours after the workout.
01:24:30.000It's like 8, 8.30, we sit down to a family dinner.
01:24:33.000And I'll just eat as many carbohydrates as I want because I'm in an insulin sensitive state by the next morning.
01:24:40.000I did like the blood ketone and the breath ketone testing.
01:24:42.000I'm back in a fat burning state by the next morning.
01:24:45.000That's interesting, even with the bread.
01:24:47.000I've also replenished my glycogen stores in my liver and my muscle to be able to do the next day's hard workout.
01:24:54.000So I like this strategy for athletes because they can get all the benefits of a fat burning state, the reduced free radical production from excess glucose intake.
01:25:51.000Well, when you raise a garden bed, you can just add whatever type of soil that you want to, versus digging down.
01:25:57.000Because my wife does a lot of composting.
01:25:58.000We have chickens and goats, so she used a lot of the dung from the chickens and the goats and the leftover food from inside and does composting.
01:26:05.000And so we use a lot of this in the raised garden beds.
01:26:08.000I started gardening this year indoors.
01:26:10.000I'm growing something called splilanthes, which I can tell you about later.
01:26:15.000But what I do during the day is eat a lot of wild plants.
01:26:20.000So when I'm coming in from that cold pool in the morning, I'll gather some plants and I throw those in a blender with some fats like coconut milk or coconut oil.
01:26:30.000I'll do some bone broth and some lemon because when you mix vitamin C with collagen, you make the collagen a lot more absorbable.
01:26:37.000So I'll mix the vitamin C with bone broth.
01:28:19.000Like, he puts some different things in it, the same thing.
01:28:21.000And it's an amazing breakfast, because you can sit there and, like, I do a lot of dictation on my computer, so I'll sit there and I'll dictate emails while I'm eating my smoothie with a spoon.
01:29:20.000But for this study, for Jeff Volek's lab, it was 12 months, strict ketosis.
01:29:24.000And they brought us into the lab and me and the group of ketogenic athletes and also the whole group of endurance athletes following a traditional carbohydrate-rich diet do a VO2 max test the night that we got there.
01:29:36.000And then the next morning, they punched a bunch of holes in our thighs with needles and did a biopsy of the muscle to see how much glycogen was in the muscle.
01:29:44.000And then with these big holes in our muscles, we had to go run on a treadmill for three hours.
01:30:54.000It does what's called indirect calorimetry, where based on the carbon dioxide that you breathe out and the oxygen that you consume, it approximates your carbohydrate and your fat burning rate.
01:31:02.000It's kind of like the gold standard of metabolic testing in laboratory situations, like in an exercise physiology lab.
01:31:09.000And so you're testing how much fat you're burning during exercise, how much carbohydrate you're burning during exercise, something called your respiratory exchange ratio is what it's called.
01:31:18.000And the prevailing research and the literature suggests that you can burn about 1.0 grams of fat per minute during exercise.
01:31:28.000Like that would be about how much fat you would burn, 1.0 grams of fat per minute.
01:31:32.000When they tested, this was called the FASTER study, F-A-S-T-E-R. They found that the folks who followed a high-fat diet, like me and these other people who are eating high-fat diet, we were burning 1.5 to 1.7 grams of fat per minute during exercise, during this three-hour treadmill run.
01:31:49.000Our VO2 maxes were just as high, and we maintained our levels of muscle glycogen.
01:31:54.000And so basically there was no, we didn't go any faster.
01:31:58.000I'm not saying like a ketogenic diet is going to make you better at endurance sports because I've never seen any evidence that that's going to happen.
01:32:03.000But we did go just as fast and we actually burnt, we turned our bodies into fat burning machines over the course of 12 months.
01:32:12.000So the benefits would not be necessarily performance, but the benefits are more health-wise, cancer, prevention.
01:32:19.000A lot of people, they get gut rot and fermentation from eating a lot of fermentable carbohydrates.
01:32:23.000Some people get small intestine bacterial overgrowth.
01:32:26.000Some people get blood glucose fluctuations.
01:32:29.000You see a drop in what's called the first phase insulin response.
01:32:34.000Normally, you're supposed to produce a lot of insulin when you eat a meal, or at least enough to be able to shove that substrate into storage tissue and Normally, you'd be able to produce this, and by getting a lot of glycemic variability during the day, you eventually produce insulin insensitivity, right?
01:32:48.000Like, you don't have that normal first-phase insulin response.
01:32:52.000You can use things like bitters and chew your food a lot and, you know, strength train before you eat a carbohydrate-rich meal, you know, things like that.
01:33:02.000Yeah, it's more of like a health and longevity thing.
01:33:04.000It's not like eating low carbohydrate makes you faster.
01:33:06.000It's just that you avoid a lot of the potential issues, the potential health issues that would come with a large amount of glucose fluctuations.
01:33:14.000But there's exceptions to that rule, right?
01:33:17.000Like you could go get your genetics tested and you might find out you have, let's say, familial hypercholesterolemia, in which case if you eat like a ketotic diet, you'll produce a lot of like oxidized cholesterol.
01:33:29.000400, 500 and really high LP little a and all these issues with a high amount of fat consumption because their bodies are unable to deal with that amount of cholesterol.
01:34:03.000There's like 12 different shapes of the stomach and like seven different ways that the heart is shaped.
01:34:08.000And certain people will excrete copious amounts of vitamin D and need a lot more vitamin D intake.
01:34:13.000And other people develop vitamin D toxicity in response to like the 2,000 or 4,000 international units that a lot of people are popping these days.
01:34:45.000You're trying your ketogenic diet, testing out your blood work, and trying to figure it out.
01:34:49.000It's very complicated for the layperson.
01:34:51.000It is, but I mean, like, in very simplistic terms, I've told some people this, right?
01:34:55.000You could at least test your genetics, and there's actually a really good book about this called The Jungle Effect by Dr. Daphne Miller, and she goes into how, like...
01:35:04.000She'll put, like, her Hispanic clients on, like, a traditional Mexican diet comprised of, like, you know, soaked and sprouted legumes and low glycemic index, you know, tortillas and non-GMO corn and take them back to what their ancestors would have eaten.
01:35:21.000Like, she'll literally take, like, what the Taramahara Indian tribe is eating in South America and put her Hispanic clients on that.
01:35:26.000Or she'll put, like, her African American clients on a fiber-rich fermented, like, Cambodian diet.
01:35:36.000You go get your genetics tested, you see where your ancestors came from, and you try to approximate.
01:35:41.000And obviously we're a genetic melting pot in America, and there's going to be some people who are just like, oh crap, I come from Japan and Europe and Ethiopia.
01:35:51.000There's some people who come from all over the place, in which case you would have to take a deeper dive.
01:36:04.000So you could look at your bacterial balance, presence of parasites, yeast, fungus, all those kind of little things that affect gut health and personality and everything else that the microbiome affects.
01:36:15.000And then like a urine test for hormones, which is more accurate than a blood test.
01:36:20.000And that's a lot of testing, but I mean, if you really, really, truly want to dial things in, it's genetic testing, it's blood testing, urinary testing for hormones.
01:36:30.000It tests like your testosterone all throughout the day, the metabolites of testosterone, your cortisol all throughout the day, the metabolites of cortisol.
01:36:37.000So you could actually see like, you know, do I really have high cortisol or am I just not breaking it down quickly enough, for example?
01:36:44.000I just wish there was a place that you could go that was very comprehensive that the average person could go to where they could do all this stuff for you and break it down for you.
01:36:52.000It seems like there's more and more of a market to that every day.
01:37:14.000They're going to these places and getting the comprehensive blood testing done.
01:37:18.000I do a lot of that myself just by ordering it from direct labs.
01:37:22.000Well, you have a deep understanding and knowledge of all this stuff.
01:37:25.000It's different than the average person.
01:37:27.000Yeah, plus I'm injecting stem cells into my...
01:37:29.000But I think for the average person that's listening to this, it's a little confusing and maybe a little frustrating because it would be nice if there was a place you could go that's like the dentist.
01:37:39.000You go to the dentist, hey, Bob, you've got a cavity.
01:37:44.000There's companies working on that right now, like an actual dashboard where you get a home test kit done, and there are actually microneedles now.
01:38:27.000It was like my bodybuilding days where you go way in in the morning before the show and then the rest of the day you eat freaking ice cream and bread and you look like an Olympic god when you get up on stage because everything's popping.
01:38:41.000All that glycogen gets restored after about eight hours.
01:38:46.000I don't remember what my first meal was.
01:38:47.000Well, when you don't eat many carbohydrates, you upregulate levels with something called glycogen synthase, which is an enzyme responsible for helping to get glycogen into muscle tissue.
01:38:56.000So this would be a process that you would do before a show?
01:38:58.000Glycogen depletion followed by glycogen restoration causes this big surge in glycogen.
01:39:04.000Plus, going into a show, you're restricting carbohydrates anyways because it's hard to get very, very low body fat.
01:39:11.000That's why you see bodybuilders eating glycogen.
01:39:13.000Freaking like chicken and broccoli, right?
01:39:15.000So the same thing is something I did when I did triathlon, right?
01:39:20.000You'll like carbohydrate deplete the weekend before a race.
01:39:50.000Carbohydrate, it's just basically carbohydrate depletion and carbohydrate loading.
01:39:54.000Now, was there any benefit of that performance-wise versus what you're doing now?
01:40:03.000There's not necessarily a benefit in that you go faster if you've trained your body how to operate well on a low-carbohydrate diet.
01:40:16.000I've never, like I said, seen any evidence that a low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet makes you go faster than if you were eating a regular carbohydrate-rich diet.
01:40:26.000But I also haven't seen that if you do like I did and follow it strict for a long time...
01:40:32.000There's not a lot of evidence that makes you go slower either.
01:40:35.000So it's kind of like, it's like even keel.
01:40:37.000Right, so it's just a health longevity benefit.
01:40:40.000It's more of like, hey, if I can live a longer time and feel better and produce less reactive oxygen species by doing this versus the high carbohydrate intake, then why not do it?
01:40:50.000And I mean, when you look at like the Nike project and how they were trying to break the marathon record in Italy They were using these crazy engineered forms of carbohydrate where they went way above these maltodextrin fructose blends that a lot of companies like Gatorade use, and they were using these super engineered carbs.
01:41:07.000It's possible that some of these newer carbohydrates that are engineered for extremely high absorption could beat out.
01:41:14.000If we were to study those in a high-fat, low-carb athlete who'd followed that diet for a long period of time versus a traditionally fueled athlete who was eating these newfangled engineered carbohydrates...
01:41:23.000It's possible the newfangled engineered carbohydrates could make you go faster, but unless your paycheck is on the line and you're a pro, I still say, you know, why not get that balance between health and longevity and speed.
01:41:34.000My thyroid, though, did not like that high-fat ketogenic diet paired with high levels of physical activity.
01:41:54.000And I explain this to a lot of athletes who I work with who want to do the ketogenic diet thing.
01:41:58.000You read a book like, you know, there's some fantastic ketogenic diets out there that are plant-rich, which a lot of ketogenic diets aren't, right?
01:42:06.000They'll be like coconut oil and butter.
01:42:08.000And that actually creates a lot of gastric inflammation in the absence of like, you know, high amount of polyphenols and flavonoids and high fiber and plant intake.
01:42:17.000I wrote an article about this called The Dark Side of Coconut Oil that gets into the fact that if you're going to do like a high fat, low carb, ketogenic type of diet, you would want to include a lot of plants.
01:42:28.000Dr. Terry Walls has a book called The Walls Protocol.
01:42:30.000That's got a plant-rich ketogenic version in it.
01:42:32.000Stephen Gundry has his book The Plant Paradox, and he has like a ketogenic version in that book that's like very plant-rich.
01:42:39.000So if you're eating like a plant-rich ketogenic diet and you're following what a lot of these people have written, you'd generally be advised to eat like 30 to 50 grams of carbohydrates per day, which is fine if you have thyroid disease or you have some other issue, you know, pre-diabetes,
01:42:55.000whatever, and you're trying to control it with a ketogenic diet.
01:42:57.000But then once you throw copious amounts of physical activity into the mix, right, you're a CrossFitter, you're an Ironman triathlete, and you go read one of these books and you read the supposed to be 50 grams of carbohydrates.
01:43:06.000Well, you know, the authors of those books, to my knowledge, are not out racing Ironman triathlons and, you know, doing marathons and copious amounts of physical activity.
01:43:15.000So you have to up the carbohydrate intake.
01:43:18.000So it's all about, you know, so for me personally, like 100 to 200 grams of carbohydrate.
01:43:34.000So, if you have like a thyroid issue and you're highly active and you want to follow a ketogenic diet, then you need to include more carbohydrate than would be recommended in, let's say, like a more sedentary type of ketogenic diet.
01:43:46.000Well, that makes sense because you're always reading these diets based on just the average person.
01:43:50.000And the average person is just not going to put out that kind of output.
01:43:52.000And you want to include a lot of the things that you tend to build up deficits in, like potassium and magnesium are two biggies.
01:43:58.000And you dump a lot of glycogen, and glycogen stores a bunch of water, and it stores a bunch of electrolytes, so you have to figure out how to replace that.
01:44:04.000And now people are using these exogenous ketones, like the ketone salts or the ketone esters.
01:44:11.000And the danger with those is now you can get into ketosis, but still also have high blood glucose.
01:44:18.000And that's something that we haven't really studied.
01:44:20.000That's not like our ancestors out hunting.
01:44:24.000It's not like they were in ketosis because they were burning a lot of their own body fat and generating ketones as a byproduct.
01:44:31.000And they were in just like a natural state because they weren't eating a lot of food, sometimes just not stuffing their face with carbohydrates and glucose.
01:44:40.000But now people are able to eat a normal Western diet.
01:44:54.000Like it was like rocket fuel because my blood glucose was jacked through the roof.
01:44:58.000So I did a bunch of like fructose maltodextrin energy-based gels.
01:45:02.000And then I drank a bottle of these ketone esters, which basically, I mean, they have, if you measure your ketones, you'll know that this is high.
01:45:10.000But within 10 minutes, my values were above 7 millimolar, which is just off the charts for ketones.
01:45:15.000But my blood glucose was also off the charts.
01:45:17.000And I felt like my cells had, like, both forms of fuel they'd ever need, both ketones and glucose.
01:45:25.000But I'll bet, I mean, that's similar to, like, diabetic ketoacidosis.
01:45:28.000Like, if you're in that state all the time and you're using all these ketone supplements and just eating your diet and using these because you're, quote, in ketosis, unquote, I don't think it's healthy.
01:45:36.000I wonder if it would be great, though, performance-wise, like for a fight or something like that.
01:45:54.000Because it does, like, you can feel and it can give you, especially if you're not fat adapted, I mean, carbohydrates give you a pretty big boost in performance and energy versus not having them on board when you're exercising and especially when you're exercising hard.
01:46:14.000I didn't quantify it, but it was a Tough Mudder in Vegas.
01:46:19.000And all I know is I felt way, way more doubt.
01:46:24.000I had the cognitive high that you get from ketones, which was the original reason that I started doing this ketosis thing seven years ago when I was getting ready to race Ironman Canada.
01:46:35.000And I wanted to see what it would feel like to have those readily available fuel sources for the liver and the diaphragm and the heart and kind of the focus that comes with high levels of ketones when you're on a bike for five hours.
01:46:45.000And I had that when I took these exogenous ketones, but then I also had all the energy that you get after you've had like a candy bar, right?
01:46:54.000So yeah, you're high blood sugar and high blood ketones.
01:46:56.000So you just feel focused, but you also have high levels of energy.
01:49:15.000My friend Duncan went to school in Asheville, and he said that they started giving the cows a certain diet.
01:49:21.000To kill the psilocybin mushrooms that grow in their shit because too many kids were climbing fences and plucking mushrooms out of the cow shit.
01:49:41.000I have a friend who is a world champion kickboxer who microdoses every day, and he says it makes him almost telepathic.
01:49:48.000He says it makes his response time to sparring.
01:49:51.000He said he sees things before they happen.
01:49:53.000Your sensory perception improves, especially in nature settings.
01:49:57.000Right, like there's this, there's like the synthetic chemical LSD, or PLSD is like the one a lot of people are using now because you get it for a lot less expensive, and it has the same effect as LSD. It's just, it's a lot cheaper.
01:50:11.000You get both on like these websites where you use cryptocurrency to purchase the compound, but...
01:50:23.000It's very synthetic, and there's a merging of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and you get very creative and focused simultaneously.
01:50:31.000For LSD, you want to volumetrically dose, which means if you get a blotter of LSD, it's like 100 micrograms on a square, and a lot of people cut that into 10 pieces.
01:50:42.000So that one piece would be 10 micrograms, but you don't know if that piece has 20 or 5 on it.
01:50:48.000So you take a 100 microgram tab, and you put that in a glass dropper bottle.
01:50:57.000And then you would add like 10 milliliters of Everclear or vodka or some kind of alcohol to it.
01:51:03.000And then you know that for every one milliliter of alcohol in that little dropper bottle that you consume, you're getting exactly 10 micrograms of LSD and about 10 to 20 micrograms, like one to two dropper bottles full, that would be considered a microdose for most people.
01:51:21.000But you don't, like, returning to psilocybin, psilocybin produces, like, this sensory perception, very natural feeling improvement in your cognition, in your senses.
01:52:15.000And I mean, you don't want to make yourself dependent on finding a tree beautiful by whether or not you have psilocybin in your bloodstream.
01:52:39.000Sometimes you see things you wouldn't normally otherwise see.
01:52:42.000I go to bed and I've got my binaural beats and my sleep mask and I've got that little grounding earthing device under my body and my chili pad and blue light blocking glasses and I get in bed with all these wires sticking up out of my head and my wife just gets in bed and just like...
01:53:11.000No, because you systematize it, right?
01:53:13.000Like when I walk into my office, it's not like I'm spending 20 minutes like...
01:53:17.000Turning on the Juve light and putting on the essential oil diffuser and, you know, I've got like this device that creates like special water that you breathe.
01:53:28.000Well, you know, humidifies the water that you breathe while you're working.
01:53:32.000And I've got like, you know, blue light generating devices on the ceiling and all this stuff in my office.
01:53:37.000But when I walk in, there's just like click, click, click, and I go to work.
01:55:31.000Making science more available to the public, have been testing a concoction of chemicals that allows humans to see in the dark, and it works.
01:57:44.000My buddy, Kenton Claremont, up in Washington State, he was running these train-to-hunt competitions, which are really bad.
01:57:52.000It's like obstacle course racing with a weapon.
01:57:55.000And you could do it out here, because you could carry sandbags and do cones and suicide sprints and all sorts of stuff with this techno-hunt setup that you have.
01:58:05.000The first competition that I did, you show up and it starts off with like a four or five hour traditional 3D shoot.
01:58:11.000And for people who don't know what a 3D shoot is, it's a bunch of targets, you know, like Reinhardt targets or whatever that are set up in different locations.
01:58:54.000Because if you wound an animal, that's really much, much worse than missing an animal.
01:58:59.000So some of the shots are pretty complex.
01:59:02.000It might be you got to get off two shots in 10 seconds, which is actually kind of hard to do.
01:59:06.000You know, two shots in 10 seconds and one animal's at 20 and one animal's at 40. Right, which is why I use like a three pin side on my bow because you don't even have time to adjust the dial after you've taken one shot to the yardage for the second shot.
01:59:19.000You might have a shot that's like run up this hill.
01:59:24.000We won't tell you the distance, but you have 30 seconds to make it the 25 yards up that goalie and then you're going to have a shot at the top and you got to run up the goalie site and get your shot off in those 30 seconds.
01:59:38.000So it's not like a traditional 3D shoot.
02:00:26.000But this, and it was, like, the most painful thing I've really ever done in terms of, like, how high my heart rate got and the amount of lactic acid.
02:00:32.000Like, just try to go two miles as fast as you can with a hundred pounds in your pack.
02:00:36.000Not only do you got to spend, like, I would spend copious amounts of time just, like, making sure the pack was adjusted properly, and I'll put, like, the bubble wrap in the bottom of the pack so it moves the weight that you're using, which are typically sandbags, up to the center of the pack.
02:00:47.000And I worked with this company called Kefaru that makes, like, these...
02:02:26.000But I was just saying, if you did that, you'd have a 45-pound plate.
02:02:30.000Your rubber plate that you bought that you painted a 45-pound logo on.
02:02:33.000Anyways, so you do the meat pack, and you get a certain amount of time for that, and then you do the obstacle course, which is the real hoot, and which they still do, which is because they got rid of the meat pack.
02:02:46.000They designed this whole competition to simulate hunting, to prepare a hunter to hunt, and to train a hunter to hunt properly, and it just flew in the face of everything that is hunting, which is, you know, jacked-up nervous system, you know, rushing through the woods with a giant pack,
02:03:47.000Again, they just had like a smaller pack.
02:03:49.000Same thing, you got a sandbag, but it's a lighter sandbag.
02:03:51.000So you're carrying that through the whole course, but you're stopping and shooting along the way.
02:03:55.000So it's like you're learning how to, just imagine if you're like rushing up a hill and you got to the top of the hill and you got to calm your heart rate, calm your nervous system very quickly and get your shot off.
02:04:07.000And granted, you're not necessarily going to be hauling a sandbag up That hill and doing a bunch of burpees, but it's kind of simulating that idea of shooting with your heart rate elevated.
02:04:18.000I mean, like, there are, like, legitimate, you know, hardcore crossfitters and athletes that do this, but it's a combination of being able to shoot well and being able to fitness.
02:04:28.000Well, that's the interesting thing about bowhunting is that bowhunting really does require fitness.
02:05:23.000Like I failed to dress my first animal with the little YouTube video on the iPhone where I'm following along and I've got my knife and I'm watching the video because that's the way I'm being homeschooled.
02:05:40.000There are drawbacks to being very resistant to learning from others or having mentors, I think, that you also don't play well with others, right?
02:05:48.000Like, I grew up, when I got to college, I was very poor at, like, the team activities.
02:06:56.000Dude, I went off the deep end of college because I graduated when I was 15, and I didn't do a gap year or anything.
02:07:01.000I just started college when I was 16, and I did not have good self-control around sex and alcohol and drugs and all these things that all of a sudden I was immersed in in college.
02:07:36.000I tell them, you know, gluten is going to affect your test scores, creates neural inflammation, can create some gastric inflammation.
02:07:42.000You get to choose when you go to the birthday party whether you're going to have the gluten.
02:07:45.000And sometimes it comes back to bite me because we'll go out to a restaurant and they'll bring the bread out to the restaurant and my boys will be like, no, no, we don't want the bread.
02:07:52.000And I'm like, but I kind of wanted a little piece of bread here.
02:07:57.000So I think that's a better way to raise a child.
02:08:00.000You educate them about the consequences of their decision and then you let them make the decision themselves.
02:08:06.000You equip them rather than creating a bunch of forbidden fruit, which is the way that I was kind of raised.
02:09:22.000They made like bone broth, like made baked donuts out of breadfruit flour, and they used bone broth and colostrum, and they made like a cream cheese ginger frosting and a dark chocolate cacao frosting, and it actually tastes like real donuts.
02:11:58.000We went salmon fishing there, me and my friend Ari, and we opened up the car door to get out, and in the time it took to open the car door...
02:12:05.000A swarm of mosquitoes was inside the car, and I'm not exaggerating, several hundred mosquitoes.
02:12:54.000I think I've been using them because my kids camp outside sometimes, you know, in the forest, and I set one of those little thermocel things in front of their...
02:14:55.000Because goat milk, the protein is smaller.
02:14:58.000It's very thermodynamically compatible.
02:15:01.000Apparently the only one that's better is camel milk.
02:15:04.000There was a company out of California that was sending me camel's milk to my house for a while.
02:15:08.000And apparently it's super duper healthy for you and the protein is smaller, more absorbable, and it's less hypoallergenic and friendly to your immune system.
02:15:16.000Well, when my daughter was young, she could not digest actual cow milk.
02:17:29.000The thing about archery is it's like martial arts in that if you learn the wrong way, it's very difficult to unlearn.
02:17:36.000When I was teaching martial arts, it was way better to get someone who was open-minded, who had never had any martial arts experience, versus someone who had many, many years in a shitty martial art.
02:17:48.000Because those people had these deeply ingrained pathways that were...
02:17:51.000Whenever the shit would get weird or they would get uncomfortable or they'd get nervous, they would go back to their old technique.
02:18:20.000It used to be called Iron Mind Hunting, but now he calls it Shot IQ. I think it's Shot IQ. Isn't Iron Mind the people that sell the Captains of Crush hand grip strengtheners?
02:18:29.000I think that's another company, but I love those guys.
02:18:36.000I think mine might be like 150 years old, but I have two things.
02:18:39.000I travel with one of those power lungs that you breathe in and out of to strengthen the expiratory and inspiratory muscles and the diaphragm, and then the captains of crush.
02:18:48.000And so if I'm on a long road trip and I've got to drive a long time, I go back and forth between the hand grip strengthener and then the lung strengthener.
02:18:55.000I'll just work out for two hours while you're driving.
02:19:41.000I shot four documentaries yesterday and then talked the day before.
02:19:45.000I batch a lot of meetings and then go home.
02:19:47.000So I'll go out to Malibu tonight, and then I'm going to go do that Human Garage treatment on the 31st.
02:19:56.000Talk about that for a second, because I've been following those guys online, the Human Garage, and it seems really fucking interesting and weird.
02:20:29.000They fill you full of high-dose curcumin before you go in, so your muscles just melt.
02:20:34.000And then they have four massage therapists working on you at the same time.
02:20:37.000And they taught me this, how if one's rubbing your head in a clockwise direction, but the other guy's mashing on your adductor with their elbow, you don't feel the mashing on the adductor as much because the movement on your head is distracting you from that.
02:20:51.000And then somebody else is working on your leg.
02:20:53.000And they have, like, all these essential oils that they fill the air with.
02:20:57.000They're, like, special oils that cause you to relax and be a little bit more open to the deep tissue work.
02:21:03.000And everybody there, like, goes through a special...
02:22:53.000There are certain trigger points on the head that refer to the back or the psoas.
02:22:58.000It's really interesting, this whole idea behind fascia and trigger points, and how when you're working on one area, it actually affects another area.
02:23:06.000Well, I got rolfing done a few times when I had some pretty bad back injuries, and I found that to be pretty interesting.
02:23:31.000Most of the time, I do my own, and I just started...
02:23:36.000To begin to have a massage therapist come to my house once a week.
02:23:39.000Because I think like there's a certain amount of relaxation that you get when somebody else is working on you and you're laying down on a table and I have like this.
02:23:58.000And diffuse essential oil and have her work on me for a couple of hours.
02:24:01.000Usually I'll have her come over after dinner, like around 7.30, 8 o'clock, and after the family's kind of wrapped up, and she'll just work on me at night and then go to bed.