Episode 493: Ben Greenfield: How to Actually Look 20 Years Younger + His Most Extreme Biohacks Revealed
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Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits & Hustle. Crush it.
Ben Greenfield is one of a kind. He's back on the show. He is literally the most unique human I've ever, one of the most unique humans I've ever met.
Oh, you're doing my shot. And there's always these weird cocktails at your house. I know. This is better than that. This tastes like somebody peed in the kitchen. I don't know what that is.
You just took it from my fridge. These are performance shots.
These are good. You've never had them? This will only keep me up till 2 a.m. No, I actually have seen these before. They're adaptogens.
Yeah. And they taste delicious. And I think that they really help with, I mean, I take them before I work out. They're great for performance, but they're also great for mental focus and stress and blah, blah, blah. But I figured we do this. We usually, what we normally do, if you don't remember, we usually take a shot together, like a healthy performance shot.
It's only been 30 seconds since I took a shot. So if you take yours now, we still did it together.
I know. We're supposed to like clink it and then drink it.
There's still a little bit left in the bottom of mine.
But I'll tell you why I'm not doing it because I just did one like 45 minutes ago. And I think there's a maximum of how many I should probably take in a day. So I'm not going to do my shot today because it's so late.
No, they're adaptogens. That's what the name means. Your body just adapts. Adapts? It'll be fine.
Even with 50 grams of? Okay, well, I can do a little bit so we can click it.
I mean, I'm kind of joking and kind of not. Like the definition of an adaptogen is something that will kind of turn up your nervous system if it needs an excitatory stimuli and turn it down if it needs an inhibitory stimuli. Okay. So an adaptogen is safer to use at night than like a pure central nervous system stimulant like caffeine.
Your brain is, were you always like this? Like how do you remember and like spew information at a pace that is a clip that is not human? Like how do you contain all this?
A, by being mostly stupid about most things in the world except health. And then B, by doing what I think I first read in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes book where Watson meets Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes is going to try to forget Watson's name as soon as possible because he doesn't want stuff cluttering up his brain. And so I try to write stuff down all the time and get ruminating thoughts out of my brain as quickly as possible. And so I try to tell myself that I have a clearer, cleaner head because of that.
But it's like the retention, because I want to ask you a question. I'm not even sure if you can answer this, but because you retain, though, so much information in detail. It's not even just like, you know, most people or most people, like they can kind of like keep a couple of little elements of something. But if I know when I talk with you or interview or whatever... I guess I have to say one word, like, and you can kind of like rattle on everything up and down, sideways. Is there a way that someone can work? Is there like actually some kind of methodology where we can become more... Some kind of limitless smart drug? Yeah. Besides an IV and magic mind? I'm not even joking. Do you have any tips of how people can train their brains to retain information better?
Do I look like a developmental psychologist to you? No, but you can play one on TV. Okay, so I'll play one on TV. So the way I look at it is you can stem the brain, which is what most people do, which is what I was just talking about, like caffeine, nicotine, energy drinks, Red Bull, whatever. It's like a dime a dozen. And like a lot of energy drinks aren't bad. I mean, there's great brands out there, but it's one thing to just like turn the volume up on an organ that isn't necessarily going to just like spit out good information if you if you turn the volume up, you have to actually provide building blocks to allow things like the formation of new neurons to occur and greater amounts of neuroplasticity and better connectivity between neurotransmitters and along
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