Episode 493: Ben Greenfield: How to Actually Look 20 Years Younger + His Most Extreme Biohacks Revealed
And I think that's good to do even just like once a year or like as symptoms arise if you've been traveling or whatever, you know, and you want to see if you got a parasite because you come back from Asia and you've got diarrhea or something like that.
Episode 493: Ben Greenfield: How to Actually Look 20 Years Younger + His Most Extreme Biohacks Revealed
bacterial balance, inflammation in the gut, yeast, parasites, fungal markers, clues for whether or not you might have leaky gut or gut permeability issues.
Episode 493: Ben Greenfield: How to Actually Look 20 Years Younger + His Most Extreme Biohacks Revealed
There are some websites where you can like start an account and order some of these to your house, but usually a functional medicine doc is going to order most of these tests.
Episode 493: Ben Greenfield: How to Actually Look 20 Years Younger + His Most Extreme Biohacks Revealed
So if I'm like coaching somebody and writing out their nutrition plan and their training plan and everything, it's usually like those five or six tests that I recommend that they get for me to be able to sit down with that.
Episode 493: Ben Greenfield: How to Actually Look 20 Years Younger + His Most Extreme Biohacks Revealed
that usually gives me quite a bit of information to say, okay, well, here's a relatively customized way for you to supplement, eat, move, exercise, et cetera.
Episode 493: Ben Greenfield: How to Actually Look 20 Years Younger + His Most Extreme Biohacks Revealed
So earlier we were talking about things like collagen, you know, amino acids, protein absorption, anything that's going to help with the building blocks for the skin.
Episode 493: Ben Greenfield: How to Actually Look 20 Years Younger + His Most Extreme Biohacks Revealed
Yes, I think if you want really good skin, if you do like 20 to 40 grams of collagen and up to 20 grams of essential amino acids a day, that's good for the skin.