Ben Greenfield

And so when you look at a lot of these natural elements of lifestyle,

But again, let's say you can't get outdoors or your job doesn't allow you to be

you can actually simulate many of those using modern-day technologies or biohacks.

heading outside like a dirty barefoot hippie all the time.

So what I mean by that is red light therapy is very popular.

Well, you can use grounding or earthing mats under your desk that you stand on.

People use infrared saunas or red light lamps or even head-worn red light helmets, for example, to enhance brain function, to decrease inflammation, to increase the production of heat shock proteins.

You can, if you're like me, like sleep all night on a grounding or an earthing mat underneath the top sheet of the bed.

You can even use biohacking technologies like pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, also known as PEMF, to concentrate those frequencies and deliver them in even stronger forms to the body.

And

You can get those same beneficial wavelengths of light from sunlight, but you can also bring it indoors, concentrate it, hack it, focus on the red light frequencies, and get the same benefits even if you're, say, whatever, indoors in Seattle during a dark and gray winter or working in a job that would limit you from being able to get out into the sunlight.

And so that would be an example of biohacking the process of earthing or grounding in the same way that you could biohack the practice of red light.

You know, we also know that, for example, fluctuations of temperature

induce cellular resilience and almost seem to enhance longevity and cause an anti-aging effect for the body.

I talked about walking on the ground or touching the surface of the earth.

And of course, anyone who's gone camping or hunting or spent a lot of time outdoors, again, kind of like that ancestral format, or someone who, say, has the

Well, from an ancestral standpoint, we know that a physical intimate connection to the surface of the planet seems to produce a variety of really beneficial biological effects.

the modern day privilege of working as a farmer or a construction worker or a painter or a roofer or something like that, they're more subjected to temperature extremes, right?

But again, let's say you can't get outdoors or your job doesn't allow you to be outdoors.

Like you're really hot sometimes and you're really cold sometimes and you're not inside this comfortable air-conditioned, temperature-controlled box that a lot of us drive in, work in, fly in, live in, sleep in, etc.,