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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

Because in my opinion, it's healthier to be strong and fast and have a high VO2 max and good grip strength and good lactic acid tolerance and lots of mitochondria and be eating more food to fuel all that goodness versus doing the same thing day in, day out because it doesn't make you hungry and eating less food, right?

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

I'd rather be strong and fast and fit and also eat more calories than do the same thing day in, day out and just restrict my calories.

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

I'd rather be strong and fast and fit and also eat more calories than do the same thing day in, day out and just restrict my calories.

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

I'd rather be strong and fast and fit and also eat more calories than do the same thing day in, day out and just restrict my calories.

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

Right. One or the other. The idea of fitness does need to be considered in terms of kind of like a blueprint for the body. I'll explain what I mean by that. But before I do, I didn't address the second reason that you might get hungry after you do a hard workout. To me, that's the more concerning reason.

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

Right. One or the other. The idea of fitness does need to be considered in terms of kind of like a blueprint for the body. I'll explain what I mean by that. But before I do, I didn't address the second reason that you might get hungry after you do a hard workout. To me, that's the more concerning reason.

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

Right. One or the other. The idea of fitness does need to be considered in terms of kind of like a blueprint for the body. I'll explain what I mean by that. But before I do, I didn't address the second reason that you might get hungry after you do a hard workout. To me, that's the more concerning reason.

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

It is the train to eat, eat to train type of phenomenon where either A, you're exercising so that you can stuff your face later, not so that you can get fitter. So the only goal of exercise is to burn as many calories as possible so you can enjoy your whatever, $25 smoothie or pizza or whatever it is that makes you happy because you're addicted to food.

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

It is the train to eat, eat to train type of phenomenon where either A, you're exercising so that you can stuff your face later, not so that you can get fitter. So the only goal of exercise is to burn as many calories as possible so you can enjoy your whatever, $25 smoothie or pizza or whatever it is that makes you happy because you're addicted to food.

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

It is the train to eat, eat to train type of phenomenon where either A, you're exercising so that you can stuff your face later, not so that you can get fitter. So the only goal of exercise is to burn as many calories as possible so you can enjoy your whatever, $25 smoothie or pizza or whatever it is that makes you happy because you're addicted to food.

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

And the only way that you can be addicted to food without becoming morbidly obese or having some metabolic disease is to exercise your butt off, right? And so then we get into the whole realm of like exercise anorexia. which is a thing.

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

And the only way that you can be addicted to food without becoming morbidly obese or having some metabolic disease is to exercise your butt off, right? And so then we get into the whole realm of like exercise anorexia. which is a thing.

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

And the only way that you can be addicted to food without becoming morbidly obese or having some metabolic disease is to exercise your butt off, right? And so then we get into the whole realm of like exercise anorexia. which is a thing.

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

And in a similar vein, we also will finish a hard workout many times and feel like we need a reward, right? And that reward is not necessarily due to the calorie burn because some people will just go face stuff on a huge breakfast after doing 50 burpees. I did the 50, and the 50 burpees doesn't burn a ton of calories. You have to walk like an hour to even burn

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

And in a similar vein, we also will finish a hard workout many times and feel like we need a reward, right? And that reward is not necessarily due to the calorie burn because some people will just go face stuff on a huge breakfast after doing 50 burpees. I did the 50, and the 50 burpees doesn't burn a ton of calories. You have to walk like an hour to even burn

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

And in a similar vein, we also will finish a hard workout many times and feel like we need a reward, right? And that reward is not necessarily due to the calorie burn because some people will just go face stuff on a huge breakfast after doing 50 burpees. I did the 50, and the 50 burpees doesn't burn a ton of calories. You have to walk like an hour to even burn

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

know a cookie no but people will say hey i did the hard thing i'm going to reward myself with food so using food as a reward or as something that allows you to get that dopaminergic rush and not as something that you'd be using to refill the body and restore nutrients and vitamins and minerals

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

know a cookie no but people will say hey i did the hard thing i'm going to reward myself with food so using food as a reward or as something that allows you to get that dopaminergic rush and not as something that you'd be using to refill the body and restore nutrients and vitamins and minerals

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

know a cookie no but people will say hey i did the hard thing i'm going to reward myself with food so using food as a reward or as something that allows you to get that dopaminergic rush and not as something that you'd be using to refill the body and restore nutrients and vitamins and minerals

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

that can be an issue and that's a more concerning issue and that's where we get into the willpower self-control component and in my opinion the best way to manage that is what gets measured gets managed right that's where you take photos of your food and upload them to the new gpt image recognition technology like gpt 4l where it'll just tell you you know on your own notes app or whatever how many calories that you're eating based on image recognition of that food