Ben Greenfield

We really value family and relationships and the longevity and health derived from that.

And if you look at a lot of the concepts in building biology that we actually wove into our previous home in Washington and this new home,

We eat very close to the earth, not only grow, but also prepare a lot of our own food.

And the way I look at it is...

that we've just finished building about six months ago in Idaho, a lot of it involves taking what our ancestors would have experienced and replicating that in a modern environment.

You can use a full-body red light bed, for example, or red light panels or something like that.

And you can also get adequate sunlight within moderation.

And you can go into a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, but you can also do breath work.

So let's take flooring, for example.

We know that the Earth, touching the surface of the planet, is really good for you.

And you can go outside barefoot, but also use a grounding or earthing mat indoors.

Have you heard of grounding or earthing, for example?

So every time lightning strikes the surface of the planet or solar radiation bombards the planet, it collects negative ions, which when our skin comes in contact with the surface of the planet, we absorb and it helps restore the electrical potential of our body.

And if you look at it from almost an environmental standpoint, I think, one,

really interesting way to think about this is through the lens of what's called building biology.

This is kind of like a term in architecture and building that is based around the idea of taking a living space, a home or an office, and making it as compatible

It almost like recharges our body's battery.

And when we are...

indoors, on non-conductive surfaces, in big built-up rubber-soled shoes, living in a modern home environment, we're often disconnected from absorbing that electricity and also absorbing the low-level, what's called a pulsed electromagnetic field that the Earth creates, which is also highly anti-inflammatory.

to human flourishing as possible in terms of the air, the light, the water, the electricity, the chemicals, the way that people are enabled to move their bodies in that environment, eat in that environment.