Habits and Hustle
Episode 399: Ben Greenfield on Biohacking vs. Simplicity: The Future of Longevity for Body, Mind and Spirit
19 Nov 2024
Chapter 1: What is Ben Greenfield's journey into fitness?
You did? Who even did that?
The National Strength Conditioning Association, which is the creme de la creme personal training search in the U.S. What's it called? NSCA.
So how did they even know? How did they even know you existed?
I was nominated by a bunch of the local physicians because of the work we were doing with the government's Exercises Medicine Initiative. So we were taking a lot of the patients and transforming them in our facility because we had the best of the best stuff. We were doing blood analysis, calorimetry analysis, VOT to max analysis, high-speed video cameras, blood work, nutrition coaching, testing.
This was way before all these fancy biohacking facilities, but- I was kind of like early adopter of a lot of that stuff. And so that's what kind of thrust me into the limelight, that 2008 nomination. And that's when I started doing more podcasting and writing and more online coaching and advising and investing in a lot of what I do now.
But that's kind of like, long story short, my journey of nerded out homeschooler in the backwoods of Idaho to really starting a big health and fitness business.
So basically 2008 when things started to really take off for you. When did Instagram start? When did social media become something? What year?
2016? I mean, when I started my podcast, there was maybe 100 podcast tops and like five in the health and fitness category. It was like you had to code your RSS feed and submit it to Apple and wait two weeks. And if it was over like 100 megabytes or something like that, it would break. And it was wild, wild west of podcasting.
That's crazy. And then now, okay, are you shocked? Like in the area of biohacking, I feel like you're most known for the biohacking stuff, right? Like, are you shocked at like how popular you became in that world or you're not really shocked?
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Chapter 2: How does dietary diversity impact health?
Chapter 3: What are the benefits of stem cell therapy?
Chapter 4: How do NAD and creatine affect sleep?
Chapter 5: What strategies can enhance meditation?
Chapter 6: How can technology improve modern parenting?
Chapter 7: What role does simplicity play in health optimization?
Chapter 8: How do you evaluate nutritional products?
Feld. Feld.
Feld. Feld.
I think Feld does sound pretty cool. I need to go by that like a spy.
I thought it was.
In World War II, going in to kill Hitler. Ben Greenfeld.
Yeah, but you're not even Jewish.
It's my new identity. No.
That could be your alter ego.
We could just do a whole podcast about how we would assassinate Hitler.
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