Ben Greenfield

use ancestral wisdom like earthing, grounding, sunlight, fresh air, temperature extremes, et cetera, to enhance the human body.

So in many cases, I think that some of the more beneficial things

tools that we can find in modern science for enhancing the human body are simply mimicking and concentrating what primal humans would have experienced for thousands of years leading up to the advent of these technologies.

Or back to the root of your question, like me, do a little bit of both, right?

Like I was in the infrared sauna this morning and now I'm walking in the sunlight.

I was...

standing on an earthy and grounding mat in my office like an hour ago, and now I'm walking around outside.

I will have lunch later on today, and my salad will have some wild mint and nettle on it from the forest, but with my smoothie this morning, I had a handful of antioxidant capsules that are the same thing in a modern-day format.

And furthermore, they almost allow someone who's living like a modern day post-industrial lifestyle to better simulate the beneficial aspects of a different human connection that was more connected to

the planet, all the way down to like, you know, again, like the foraging for leaves and roots and berries and things like that.

So that's kind of an example of what I mean by the marriage of ancestral wisdom and modern science, or having a little bit of both in your life.

Well, now we have encapsulation technologies and powdering technologies that allow us to grab a handful of capsules or make a morning smoothie in a fraction of the time that it would have taken our ancestors walking through the woods, finding all these antioxidants and supplements and, you know, roots and oils and berries.

So

So yeah, those are a few examples of how you can either have modern science to biohack, to heal, to enhance the body, use ancestral wisdom like earthing, grounding, sunlight, fresh air, temperature extremes, et cetera, to enhance the human body.

I'm so glad you brought this up because it really ties into some of the examples I was giving you about sunlight and earthing and grounding and fresh water and supplements and things like that when we were talking about ancestral wisdom versus modern science.

Or back to the root of your question, like me, do a little bit of both, right?

So here's the concept.

Like I was in the infrared sauna this morning and now I'm walking in the sunlight.

Your cells are...

I was...