Ben Greenfield

And to me, that's kind of like a hopeless way to live versus like –

There's like a divine being that created the planet and there's immortality and an afterlife and there's way more to life than just like you and me being here for 80 or 90 or for like the best little biohackers like 150 years.

Like I find that a really, really hopeful and happy way to live just to know that there's like something greater outside of me and like a greater purpose written for my life.

I grew up in a Christian church, like a Christian house.

But I think going through the hard knocks of life, just like experiencing, just like living paycheck to paycheck and trying to make ends meet and trying to find your purpose in life and

know making marriages work and raising kids like i think that all of that develops faith i mean there's you know there's a saying that gold is refined through fire right and i think that as as you grow especially through hardships that it like without a doubt for me personally like that has deepened my faith for some people like weekends are faith like there must not be a god if all these bad things are happening to me

But my perspective is that in many cases, bad things happen so that the good things can shine through at an even higher level.

For the environmental toxin test, the only thing I can tell you is try it again under a different name and see what happens.

What do you mean?

And I say that because they can be kind of notorious for giving you wildly varying results from test to test.

Now, the thing that we do know is we live in a toxic environment, and it's always a good idea to be cognizant of mold, mycotoxins, and microplastics, but I would not put all your faith into a test like that.

The test that I think you can get good data from is just like once in a lifetime, a genetic test, just to see what kind of stuff you're hardwired up to potentially get a disease for preventively.

Okay.

basic blood panel you know i do like once a quarter just to look at you know lipids and vitamins yeah um you know just like the standard complete bug count comprehensive metabolic panel type of stuff some kind of test once a year for micronutrients that the basic blood panel wouldn't cover this would be for example there's one called metabolomics to look at fatty acids and amino acids fungal markers and

Little micronutrients that a basic blood test won't give you.

Some type of hormone panel.

I think blood will give you a snapshot, but saliva and urine can give you a little bit more of like a 24-hour running cycle of your hormones because hormones do fluctuate throughout the day.

And then the last couple I would think about would be basically everybody's favorite, some kind of a poop test.

Yeah, isn't that the Dutch test?

No.