Ben Greenfield

stem cells injected just about everywhere that you can imagine and those are a few of the things that i've done one that's super interesting is i've done something that some people might have heard of called a stellate ganglion nerve block where a doctor uses ultrasound guided imaging to direct a super long needle right next to your carotid artery so you need to be super careful and injects it like

nerve block right into your vagus nerve on one side and then because it's pretty much impossible to swallow or chew if you do both sides at once the next day you go in and you do the other side and it completely resets your entire vagus nerve and you set up from the table film like you've like smoked the joint and had a glass of wine all at once and your HRV just goes

through the roof for a couple of weeks.

Normally this is, this is something that they would do for somebody who has like extreme PTSD, for example, but it's also just good for, for relaxing the nervous system.

And then there was about an eight year stint where I did very high amounts of just about every psychedelic and entheogen known to humankind in very large amounts, just to see what they did to the brain.

i wouldn't say that any of them are that great because well i'll come right out and say that i think that it's a very dangerous place to be taking heroic doses of large amounts of psychedelics because traditionally they've been used to divine with the spirit world and i actually believe that you like cross a spiritual portal and you can get exposed to different entities and interact with

you know, demons, angels, spirits, et cetera.

And that's a dangerous place for a human being to be.

And that's one of the reasons that I don't mess around with any of that stuff anymore.

Besides like occasionally, you know, microdosing with psilocybin or something like that.

So the craziest one is not one, but there is a place that very few people know about based a little bit outside of Nashville, Tennessee, out in the sticks, this giant, like,

mansion with barbed wire fences all over it and a giant sign on the gates that says we don't call the cops.

And they have several people who work there who have undergone some pretty intensive training and are able to expertly combine like a whole bunch of different entheogens together to almost turn default or down regulate the default mode network while simultaneously turning your brain into like a supercomputer.

and then your entire experience for anywhere from six to like 30 hours in some cases is recorded as you're talking and i did that eight times over the course of three years and that was probably the just the craziest in terms of like piles and piles and piles of papers and reams of material just like written from my brain being a totally different state

And now, you know, just like business ideas, relationship ideas, different breakthroughs, you know, dealing with history of past things.

You know, the reason that a lot of people do these things.

But again, like, I'm not saying this to brag about having, like, done lots of drugs or something like that.

Or even to...

endorse that in most cases for most people.

What I mean is that it's much better in most cases to climb to the top of Mount Everest rather than being dropped off by a helicopter on top of Mount Everest.