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Ben Greenfield

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

It's true that if you have a predictable set of meals, I have my yogurt with my berries in the morning and I got my lean protein on my whole grain sandwich for lunch and I eat the same thing for dinner. If you're trying to count and control calories, that makes it very simple and also makes it more likely that you're going to have fewer types of foods around the house.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Because one of the things that dietary diversity can cause is the more access to foods that you have, the more calories you're likely to eat.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Because one of the things that dietary diversity can cause is the more access to foods that you have, the more calories you're likely to eat.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Because one of the things that dietary diversity can cause is the more access to foods that you have, the more calories you're likely to eat.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Like if you walk up to like a superfood salad bar and there's like 20 different things, walnuts and pecans and avocados and salsa and mushrooms and two different kinds of, you're going to load up the plate in many cases and wind up with way more food than you normally eat. You know, it's buffet syndrome.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Like if you walk up to like a superfood salad bar and there's like 20 different things, walnuts and pecans and avocados and salsa and mushrooms and two different kinds of, you're going to load up the plate in many cases and wind up with way more food than you normally eat. You know, it's buffet syndrome.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Like if you walk up to like a superfood salad bar and there's like 20 different things, walnuts and pecans and avocados and salsa and mushrooms and two different kinds of, you're going to load up the plate in many cases and wind up with way more food than you normally eat. You know, it's buffet syndrome.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Yes, it could be good for weight loss and calorie control, but that is not synonymous with good health and high micronutrient and vitamin and mineral intake. So I think a part of it does come down to like self-control.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Yes, it could be good for weight loss and calorie control, but that is not synonymous with good health and high micronutrient and vitamin and mineral intake. So I think a part of it does come down to like self-control.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Yes, it could be good for weight loss and calorie control, but that is not synonymous with good health and high micronutrient and vitamin and mineral intake. So I think a part of it does come down to like self-control.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

If I'm going to have 20 different types of fermented foods and yogurts and superfoods and chlorella and bee pollen and dark chocolate and pastured eggs and three different kinds of meat and all this stuff in my pantry and my fridge, which I do because I love the idea of dietary diversity.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

If I'm going to have 20 different types of fermented foods and yogurts and superfoods and chlorella and bee pollen and dark chocolate and pastured eggs and three different kinds of meat and all this stuff in my pantry and my fridge, which I do because I love the idea of dietary diversity.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

If I'm going to have 20 different types of fermented foods and yogurts and superfoods and chlorella and bee pollen and dark chocolate and pastured eggs and three different kinds of meat and all this stuff in my pantry and my fridge, which I do because I love the idea of dietary diversity.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

It also means you're either injecting a GLP-1 so you're controlling your appetite or you're actually just cognizant and aware, which isn't that like if you're writing it down anyways, you're using an app like Chronometer or some other calorie counting app to keep track, then it makes it a lot easier. So I think you can have your cake and eat it too.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

It also means you're either injecting a GLP-1 so you're controlling your appetite or you're actually just cognizant and aware, which isn't that like if you're writing it down anyways, you're using an app like Chronometer or some other calorie counting app to keep track, then it makes it a lot easier. So I think you can have your cake and eat it too.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

It also means you're either injecting a GLP-1 so you're controlling your appetite or you're actually just cognizant and aware, which isn't that like if you're writing it down anyways, you're using an app like Chronometer or some other calorie counting app to keep track, then it makes it a lot easier. So I think you can have your cake and eat it too.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Cake in this case being dietary diversity combined with moderating the amount of calories that you consume. But it does take more mindfulness. It does. I think mindfulness is good.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Cake in this case being dietary diversity combined with moderating the amount of calories that you consume. But it does take more mindfulness. It does. I think mindfulness is good.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Cake in this case being dietary diversity combined with moderating the amount of calories that you consume. But it does take more mindfulness. It does. I think mindfulness is good.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit

Yeah, hence Ozempic. But you could look at it like with exercise, right? So let's take a trendy workout right now, like the 12-3-30, right? Walk at a 12% incline on a treadmill and three miles per hour for 30 minutes. And you're going to see huge drops in weight loss or increases in aerobic fitness, et cetera, which is kind of true. Yeah.