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Ben Greenfield

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Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

I'm 200 right now, so I was super skinny.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

You know, doing chronic endurance training.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

And I didn't mention that with the training piece, but that's like running from a lion all day, right?

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

So nature doesn't want to bring babies into the world in a time of constant running from lions.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

So you see a down regulation of fertility

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

and testosterone in that environment and so when i finished like 20 years of just masochistic endurance racing i was in the upper 200s low 300s whoa wow that's low yeah i thought you were going to say the opposite night and day difference now it's a nice thing yeah you'd think like yeah out there you know doing the david goggins thing and just like pounding the pavement maybe that's going to increase your virility and your testosterone but

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

So my testosterone is higher than David Goggins.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

Let's go.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

Yeah, well, I don't know what that is.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

I mean, you look at a picture of an endurance athlete and a sprinter, I mean, which one looks like they have more testosterone?

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

True.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

Which one looks more anabolic?

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

So there's a trade-off.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

Damn, that's crazy.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

That's high VO2 max, though.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

Yeah, I guess VO2 max is important, too.

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

Yeah, what was that movie back in the early 2000s with Clive Owen?

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

Children of Men?

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

The Children of Men?

Digital Social Hour
This One Mistake Could Affect Your Future Kids | Ben Greenfield & Robby Besner | DSH #1889

I think that was another, but it's basically like global infertility event, like all of a sudden, like, grow women to have babies.