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It's been awhile since I've talked about the WHOOP self-quantification wristband.

Today,  Will Ahmed, the Founder and CEO of WHOOP, is back. At WHOOP, Will works with professional athletes across every sports league, college athletes across every conference, Olympians and the U.S. military.

For detailed show notes, including a summary of our conversation and links to everything Will and I talked about, go to http://bengreenfieldfitness.com/whoop3.

Dr. Satchin Panda is a professor at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, and author of the new book “The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight”.

Dr. Panda is a frequent speaker in international conferences on metabolism, exercise and chronic diseases. His research focuses on how circadian clocks regulate behavior, physiology and metabolism. His discovery of how a blue light sensor in the eyes affect sleep- wake cycle, depression and alertness is leading a new revolution in managing light to improve health. Recently he discovered that maintaining a daily feeding-fasting cycle – popularly known as Time-Restricted Eating (TRE) – can prevent and reverse many chronic diseases.

Like most people, you probably wake up, get hungry for meals and doze off in bed around the same time every day. If you’ve ever experienced jet lag or pulled an all-nighter, you know that this schedule can easily be thrown off kilter. But for some people, that imbalance—difficulty sleeping at night, hunger at odd times, or sudden fatigue at noon—is a constant. If you're one of those people, Dr. Panda, one of the leading researchers on circadian rhythms, has a plan to reset your body clock.

Beginning with an in-depth explanation of the circadian clock—why it’s important, how it works, and how to know it isn’t working—heoutlines lifestyle changes to make to get back on track. It's a concrete plan to enhance weight loss, improve sleep, optimize exercise, and manage technology so that it doesn’t interfere with your body’s natural rhythm. Dr. Panda’s life changing methods show you how to prevent and reverse ailments like diabetes, cancer, and dementia, as well as microbiome conditions like acid reflux, heartburn, and irritable bowel disease.

During our discussion, you'll learn: -About TRE, and how it's related to the circadian code...6:25

• You're mindful of your first and last calorie of the day; you want to intake calories within a set period of time each day.
• Why it's a time restriction, as opposed to a caloric restriction.
  • TRE is more practical for the modern lifestyle than to restrict the food you eat with no time restrictions.
  • Lab tests showed that mice ate the same amount of calories with TRE as without.
  • Tests involving humans have shown that TRE has resulted in improved overall health.
  • Good news for people who are tired of constantly being "cold and hungry" while trying to live healthy lifestyle.

-The truth about Hugh Jackman's "Wolverine" Diet...10:30

• Ate a lot of protein in a 8-9 hour window; resulted in putting on a lot of muscle for Wolverine.
• TRE is becoming a trend among Hollywood actors.
• Many body builders are using TRE; it's simply more practical and easier on the body.
• It's difficult to ascertain what is the best mode of TRE for each individual. Best to discover for yourself through trial and error.

-How TRE affects endurance sport athletes...18:00

• Tests have been conducted on mice, not humans thus far.
• Question was: will mice lose endurance when they have a small window of time for eating?
  • Mice eating an unhealthy diet on TRE far outperformed mice with the same diet with no time restrictions on eating.

-What is the optimal timeframe when utilizing TRE?...23:45

• Most American adults eat more than 12, even 15 hours per day.
• The easiest (and healthiest) way to start incorporating TRE is to eat a later breakfast and an earlier dinner.

-Why Dr. Panda believes that drinking a cup of coffee "breaks a fast"...29:30

• Most people put cream and sugar in their coffee. Black coffee is preferable.
• A dependence on coffee to "get going" in the morning is an indication you're not getting enough sleep.
• By "fasting" Dr. Panda is referring more to resting your organs than not consuming calories.
  • You can't repair a highway with traffic on it.
• Coffee can "reset" the circadian clock. A cup is akin to being exposed to an hour of bright light.
• After noon, coffee affects your ability to have deep, restful sleep at night.

-About "Zeitgebers" and how you can use them to reset your circadian clock...38:30

• We have "clocks" throughout the body.
  • Light affects the "brain clock."
  • Changing your eating schedule is a more powerful way to reset your circadian clock.
• Jet lag occurs more often after lunch. Eat a big breakfast, a smaller lunch or no lunch, and a good sized dinner.
  • This may differ depending on your physical activity.

-The best time of day to exercise...43:50

• Late in the afternoon.
• Our ancestors had to get home (run) before dark. We've adapted to exercise better in the afternoon.
• "The circadian advantage": A West Coast based NFL team playing Monday Night Football on the East Coast has an advantage because of the time difference.

-About "bi-phasic" sleep. Is it true that our ancestors would sleep, then wake up in the middle of the night, then go back to sleep?...48:00

• "Common" does not equate to "normal."
• Our ancestors weren't as busy as modern people. We have a tighter window in which to sleep.

-Ways to enhance your oxygen availability while flying, and reduce jet lag...53:10

• Use a nasal device to expand your nostrils.
• Ayurvedic medicine: counter the dryness of the air with oils.

-Why it's a bad idea to take melatonin right after eating...56:20

• "Evening diabetes." The pancreas doesn't produce as much insulin.
• Give yourself at least an hour after waking up before eating.

-The idea of resetting the "gut clock"...1:03:18 -And much more! Resources from this episode:

-Book: The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight

-The Rhinomed Turbine nasal dilator breath aid (can wear on airplanes)

-Book: Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life

-Ra Optics

-MyCircadianClock.org

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Over the past fifty years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease have exploded. Currently 1 in 2.5 American children has an allergy, 1 in 11 has asthma, 1 in 13 has severe food allergies, and 1 in 36 has autism.

While some attribute this rise to increased awareness and diagnosis, my guest on today's show, Thomas Cowan, MD, argues for a direct causal relationship to a corresponding increase in the number of vaccines American children typically receive - approximately 70 vaccine doses by age eighteen.

The goal of these vaccines is precisely what we’re now seeing in such abundance among our chronically ill children: the provocation of immune response. In his new book Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness, Dr. Cowan looks at emerging evidence that certain childhood illnesses are actually protective of disease later in life; examines the role of fever, the gut, and cellular fluid in immune health; argues that vaccination is an ineffective (and harmful) attempt to shortcut a complex immune response; and asserts that the medical establishment has engaged in an authoritarian argument that robs parents of informed consent. His ultimate question, from the point of view of a doctor who has decades of experience treating countless children is... ...what are we really doing to children when we vaccinate them?

Dr. Cowan, MD, is a veteran family physician who has studied and written about many subjects in medicine, including nutrition, homeopathy, anthroposophical medicine, and herbal medicine. He is the author of Human Heart, Cosmic Heart: A Doctor’s Quest to Understand, Treat, and Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and the new book Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness from Chelsea Green Publishing. He is also a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and a frequent lecturer throughout the US and Canada.
 He's also the same doctor I mentioned in this Joe Rogan episode when I talked about how your "heart is not a pump".

During our discussion, you'll discover: -Dr. Cowan's experience with a childhood friend with asthma, and how it turned him onto medicine...8:00

• The child was teased by classmates. "How dare you be sick..." He was way out of the norm.
• Asthma is far more prevalent now than in the 60's.
• Increasing number of adults with autoimmune issues.
• A large number of people diagnosed with autism become institutionalized.

-The story of William Coley's Toxins...12:50

• "Give me a medicine to produce a fever, and I can cure any disease." --Hippocrates
• Coley was an oncology surgeon, specializing in osteosarcoma.
  • Realized his conventional treatment of sarcoma (cancer) was not effective.
  • Came upon a former patient who was scheduled to be treated for sarcoma.
  • Wound up getting treated for erysypelas (induced fever); sarcoma went away and never returned.
  • Experimented with induced fever treatment on his own patients. 40% were cured with this treatment. 40% mortality rate.
  • Inducing fever was killing the cancer.
• Coley's Toxins has been banned as a practice in the U.S. since the 1960's.
• "When I'm treating someone for a condition who's symptoms include a fever...If we can cure that condition without alleviating the fever, I am preemptively pushing this individual away from cancer for the rest of their life." --Dr. Thomas Cowan

-The two branches of the immune system...21:20

• You get exposed to measles.
• Body is looking at infected cells.
• Mounts a white cell response: attack and digest infected cells and clear out of the body.
• Fever, rash, diarrhea. Basically what we call "being sick."
• "Being sick" is not the virus; it's your body rejecting the virus.
• If you inhibit the cell-mediated response, you can infect and even kill people.
  • By eliminating the symptoms (fever, rash, diarrhea, etc.) you allow the virus to continue its attack on the immune system.
• Theory of vaccines: Purely antibody strategy.
  • No cell-mediated immune system.
  • Inject the virus along with aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, etc. to force your body to produce antibodies.
  • You end up with an accelerated antibody response.
• 2 problems with this strategy:
  • You have zero possibility of developing lifelong immunity to a virus after it has passed.
    • Every vaccine needs to have boosters.
    • Just as susceptible as a newborn as an adult.
  • Autoimmune disease is the situation of accelerated antibodies that are targeting your own tissues.
• Children who get chicken pox and measles have less major chronic disease later in life.
• CDC: Anyone born before 1956 is considered to be immune to measles.

-Why the way current science believes cells operate in the immune system is flawed...31:30

• The central paradox of mammalian cells: How does a cell live in a sodium-rich environment, yet has a sodium-poor internal milieu.
  • Balance of sodium and potassium "charges" the cell like a battery.
  • Lose the charge, you have a dead cell.
  • Each cell has a "pump" that balances the sodium and potassium.
• Two problems with this way of thinking:
  • Cells are supposedly 70% water, but there's no water in the human body.
  • In order to create the supposed differential, a cell needs 40x the amount of energy a normal cell has just to run the "pump," let alone its other normal functions.
• There's not enough ATP available to be responsible for the proper distribution of sodium and potassium

-The real reason we get sick...42:50

• The sequence: You feel good, then get a fever, then a bunch of snot, then you feel better.
• Your body is like a gel; then it gets corrupted by a virus.
• Your body heats up, softens the gel, gets rid of the virus, the waste of which ends up in your hanky. The gel hardens again and is immune to that disease.
• Introducing foreign substances as you find in vaccines weakens the immune system; you keep getting sick over and over; you experience inflammation.

-Dr. Cowan's protocol for supporting the immune system based on the innate immune system response...48:40

• Substances such as aluminum and formaldehyde interfere with the charge of the actual cells.
• A human being is an information communication device with the rest of the world; our "radios" are out of tune with vaccines.
• Adequate water, minerals, outside barefoot, adequate sunshine. Low hanging fruit to take care of before turning to vaccines.

-What we can do to reverse or overcome the effects of vaccinations if we've been vaccinated already...51:15

• No one is beyond hope. Take it one step at a time.
• Create a "cellular gel restoration program."
• You may need to experience the illness again. Let your body do its own house cleaning.

-The one pharmaceutical drug of which Dr. Cowan is an advocate, and why...53:45

• Low doses of Naltrexone.
• Discovered as opiate receptor inhibitor. (OD on heroine.)
• When you block opiates, you block endorphins. You're not a happy camper.
• Naltrexone tricks your body into making endorphins; makes a huge difference in people suffering from AI disease.

-How colostrum helps both children and adults with autoimmune issues...59:45

• Stimulates healthy gut flora.
• Prevents leakage into the bloodstream.

-And MUCH more... Resources from this episode:

-Book: Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness 

-Allergy Research dessicated organ extract

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Over the past fifty years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease have exploded. While some attribute this rise to increased awareness and diagnosis, my guest on today's show, Thomas Cowan, MD, argues for a direct causal relationship to a corresponding increase in the number of vaccines American children typically receive - approximately 70 vaccine doses by age eighteen.

For detailed show notes for this episode, visit http://bengreenfieldfitness.com/autoimmunity.

In my previous interview with Dr. Amy Killen, we discussed...

...what PRP therapy is, and how it differs from stem cells, what happens when you inject stem cells into a man’s “unit”, and why Amy injected me, why Amy injects stem cells and PRP into vaginas, and how the O-Shot improves the power and duration of female orgasms, the secrets of the vampire breast lift and other cosmetic procedures she has done, what causes hair loss, and how to fix it with stem cells, what V-Sels are and how they work and much more.

Today, Amy's back, along with world renowned sexual technique adviser and the “Dear Abby of Hot Sex”, Susan Bratton. Dr. Amy Killen is a nationally recognized anti-aging and regenerative physician specializing in sexual optimization and longevity.

Dr Killen merges diet, lifestyle, and integrative medicine with stem cell medicine to give her patients the most effective, cutting edge therapies currently available to help them reach their sexual potential. An international speaker, clinical practice owner, regenerative medicine instructor and frequent podcast guest, Dr. Killen believes that sexual health is not a luxury but is one of the main pillars of health that supports us in our quest for wellness and longevity.

Susan Bratton's fresh approach to sex techniques and bedroom communication skills help millions of people—of all ages and across the gender spectrum—transform sex into passion. Her straight-forward lovemaking advice is rooted in her personal experience of watching her marital intimacy wither as she and her husband pursued dynamic careers.

When her relationship hit a crisis point, Susan made a fierce commitment to do whatever it took to hold her family together and revive the passion in her marriage. Today, she and her husband have the kind of dream relationship most people stopped believing was even possible—until they discover her practical tips. After 15 years and over 30k hours of research, practice, teaching, and testing, Susan distilled the six simple essentials that ignite passionate lovemaking into her latest #1 international best-selling book, Sexual Soulmates.

During our discussion, you'll discover: -Susan's "6 Essentials to Connected Sex"...6:50

• Susan and her husband had lost the emotional connection in their marriage.
• Tried everything from Tony Robbins conferences to group orgasm training sessions.
  • This caused even more tension, leading to her home training programs.
  • People began asking her for advice anonymously, contributing to her research.
• The 6 Essentials:

1. Presence
2. Context/Environment
3. Sexual Soulmate Pact
4. Polarity
5. Embodied Sexuality
6. Erotic Playdates (the couple that plays together stays together)

• Learning intimacy together grows the bond between a couple.

-Tips for men to enhance their sex life...18:45

• Men typically want more stamina; women want more orgasms.
• Focus on slow, steady, deep arousal.
• Get the tissue to engorge; increase bloodflow.

-How Amy works with women to achieve better sex...23:25

• PRP injections; O shot.
• Stem cells.
• Radio frequency devices, lasers
• "Scream creams" increase bloodflow, along with increased sensation
  • Active ingredients: sildenafil (generic viagra) for men; tadalafil for women.
• Mindset, focusing on the experience is important too.

-What people can do to enhance the sexual experience after a procedure like Gainswave...27:00

• Intensity device.
• Balance hormones.
• Nitric oxide.
• Keep relationships and stress levels manageable.

-How Susan incorporates things like supplements and diet into her teaching...27:15

• Did a video series with Amy: 5 causes and 8 cures for ED.
• Salad Dressing for ED.
• This type of info is given away for free; used to make people aware of the training DVD's.

-The history of the GAINSWave protocol...31:15

• Technology has been around for many years, for things like increasing bloodflow to the heart.
• Sound waves simulate blood vessel formation, nitric oxide formation, recruiting stem cells into the penis.
• Not recommended to do a procedure outside of a reputable clinic.

-Whether or not Susan has used the GAINSWave treatment, and how she incorporates it into her practice...38:45

• Recommends men get the GAINSWave treatment with the P Shot.
• Use the penis pump. Dr. Joel Kaplan's is what she recommends.
• Dr. Kaplan also has a clitoral pump.

-What Susan and Amy think about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy for maintaining sexual performance with age...44:40

• Once you use it, it's more difficult for your body to produce it naturally; use it only when you're naturally declining sexually.
• The benefits outweigh the need to be on them long term.
• Means of use: Injections, compounding creams, pellets under the skin, trokies.
• Too much testosterone is not a good thing. Ensure you're under the care of a professional.
• Men often lose their zest for life when they allow this to continue. Treatment can renew their energy and improve their quality of life.
• Women should start before menopause.
• How does low thyroid affect sexual performance:
  • weight gain
  • apathy
  • depression
  • testosterone and estrogen levels

-About the sexual soulmate pact...53:05 -How meditation and the female orgasm work simultaneously...1:01:10 -About Peyronies and how to reverse it...1:02:15

Resources from this episode:

-GAINSWave: Get 6 treatments, and they’ll throw in another on the house. If you get 12, you’ll get the 13th free. Check out GAINSWave.com/Ben to find a provider near you.

-The Single, Most Comprehensive Stem Cell Procedure Known To Humankind: How A “Full Body Stem Cell & Exosome Makeover” Works.

-Book: Sexual Soulmates: The 6 Essentials For Connected Sex

-Book: The Multiorgasmic Male

-Ben's sex salad recipe

-Dr. Joel Kaplan Penis Pump

-Clitoral Pump

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Today I welcome back to the podcast Dr. Amy Killen, along with world renowned sexual technique adviser and the “Dear Abby of Hot Sex”, Susan Bratton. Amy is a nationally recognized anti-aging and regenerative physician specializing in sexual optimization and longevity.

For detailed and robust show notes, including links to everything that Amy, Susan and I discuss in this podcast, visit bengreenfieldfitness.com/biohacksex.

It's no secret that for quite some time I've been doing a weekly self-administered 30ml "Push IV" (fully legal for athletes, by the way) with a potent cocktail of vitamins and glutathione, along with a weekly NAD IV.

And while you may not be quite willing to hunt down a vein in your arm and administer your own IV, the doctor who I've been getting these IV's from is finally making his first appearance on my podcast. I've received plenty of questions about IV's (and stem cell infusions, and NAD IV's), and he's going to blow your mind with his broad range of knowledge on these topics.

His name is Dr. Craig Koniver.

Dr. Koniver has been practicing Performance Medicine for over 18 years and is the founder of Koniver Wellness in Charleston, South Carolina. Not satisfied with the disease-based model of modern medicine, Dr. Koniver seeks to help his clients optimize their health and performance through time-tested, nutrient and science driven protocols that are the cutting-edge of medicine. He is the founder and creator of the patent-pending FastVitaminIV® as well as re-engineering the NAD+ IV protocols, now called Brain Refuel™.

Dr. Koniver’s client list includes Navy SEALs, NFL players, PGA golfers, Hall of Fame NHL players, world-class professional athletes, Fortune 100 Executives, well-known celebrities and TV personalities. In addition, Dr. Koniver offers a comprehensive training program of the Koniver Wellness Model to physician practices across the country.

During our discussion, you'll discover: -What is performance medicine, and how did you get into it?...

• Family medicine trained; wanted to open his own practice.
• Saw an opportunity to meet a need in the market by focusing primarily on IV's.
• Realized that people just want to feel better; focus on that, and they'll be receptive to outside the box solutions.

-Why is injecting into the bloodstream more efficacious than other means of injection (oral, etc.)?...

• We only absorb around 20% of nutrients we take orally via food, supplements,etc. (even less with gut issues)
• IV's are a more sure way of ensuring the nutrients make it into the bloodstream.
• Pneumonia is a high cause of death; you treat it via intravenous antibiotics.
• Same principle applies with nutrients.

-What ingredients are in the different types of IV's that you make, and what do they do?...

• Biggest deficiencies in people are:
  • B vitamins
  • Magnesium
  • Amino acids.
• Craig focuses primarily on these ingredients in his "core" IV, rather than having a large variety of options to choose from.
• The difference between a push IV and a drip IV, and which one is more effective:
  • A push IV gets a much more robust response.
  • 30 cc's vs. 500-1000 cc's.
  • Focuses more on the nutrients than the water.
  • It's technically the only way to get a professional vitamin IV.
• Magnesium:
  • Conventional wisdom says to go slow, play it safe.
  • Craig has found the opposite to be true.
  • Never had an adverse reaction to it.
• Amino acids:
  • Whey protein, BCAA, glutamine.
• A total of 19 different nutrients in the 30 cc's of fluid.

-How can people administer these IV's without flying to Dr. Koniver's clinic in Charleston?

• There's a network of certified nurses around the country.
• People can purchase from the nurses and administer themselves, either at a clinic or in their home.

-What is the Brain Refuel?

• Combination of Intravaneous NAD Plus, and the Fast Vitamin.
• Achieves the "sweet spot" where people can tolerate the IV (length of treatment) and derive the most benefits from it.
• NAD can't be mixed with any other nutrient; but the Fast Vitamin IV helped transport the NAD to the mitochondryia.

-How to deal with the unpleasant experience of injecting the IV...

• Don't do it while you're stressed out, or just finished traveling; do it while you're in a "good place" mentally and physically.
• Breath work; relaxing music.
• "This too shall pass". Just like a workout sucks while you're doing it, you feel great afterwards.
• An IV is basically a workout for your cells.
• First NAD treatment is always the worst; once you realize it's safe, it's more tolerable in the future.
• No adverse side effects.

-Whether or not the NAD treatment is absorbable into the cells, and any proof to back it up...

• Article: Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide is transported into mammalian mitochondria
• Glutathione is not to be mixed with NAD.

-Dr. Koniver's work with stem cell infusions...

• Umbilical stem cells are freshest, most potent.
• Mitochondria directs how stem cells work.
• NAD 3 day program; inject NAD 3 days prior to stem cells.
• Safety concerns: Cleanliness, foreign cells, etc.
  • Umbilical stem cells are immune naive; very low likelihood of a reaction.
  • Stem cell banks, private companies developing safer practices.
  • Frozen in liquid nitrogen, where nothing can live. Injected immediately after thawing out.
  • Follow a clear protocol, do your due diligence to minimize risk.
• Are stem cells regulated by the government?
  • Nothing significant.
  • Stem cell companies require thorough documentation.
  • Doctors administering are well-trained. Clear protocol.
  • Companies who cut corners will be weeded out when they produce a subpar product.
• What can you administer to aid in the absorption and utility of stem cells?
  • Intravaneous NAD
  • Intranasal oxytocin
  • Injectable peptides

-More detail on the injectable peptides...

• BPC 157 systemically; inject anywhere.
• Growth hormone releasing peptides; coupled with CJC-1295.
  • Helps to stay in the system longer.
• GHK-Copper.
  • 3 week treatment promotes healing

-How Dr. Koniver engages in "distance medicine" and trains other doctors in the practice of IV treatment...

• Enables people to receive the treatment they need remotely.
• Patients often eventually travel to Charleston to continue treatment.
• Doctors don't receive this type of training in med school.
• Different mindset: disease treatment vs. health and performance perspective.

-Ben's word of advice: Don't be like me! Proceed with Caution!... And much more! Resources from this podcast:

-Click here to buy the IV's. -30 minute patient phone call with Dr. Koniver to review health goals. At end of call, Dr. Koniver will outline a strategic game plan for optimizing patient health and performance. Click here and use code BEN for 20% discount (brings $400 to $320)

-1 hour physician practitioner phone call with Dr. Koniver to discuss how to implement Performance Medicine into your practice. At end of call, Dr. Koniver will outline specific steps to start. Click here and use code BEN for 20% discount (brings $500 to $420)

-4 Day NAD IV Therapy (Brain Refuel Program). Patient flies to Dr. Koniver’s office in Charleston, South Carolina to receive the loading dose. Click here and use code BEN for 20% discount (brings $400 to $320)

-Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Program. 3 days of NAD IV Therapy followed by umbilical cord stem cell infusion. Includes injectable peptides as well as select nutrients to aid in absorption of stem cells. Click here and use code BEN for 20% discount (brings $8750 to $7000)

-The latest research on NAD absorption

-My podcast with Charles Brenner on NR supplements

-My first podcast and second podcast with Thomas Ingoglia on NAD injections

-My podcast on genetics/glutathione with Dr. Karim Dhanani

-Halland Chen's article on muscle gain with stem cells and NAD combined

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It's no secret that for quite some time I've been doing a weekly self-administered 30ml "Push IV" (fully legal for athletes, by the way) with a potent cocktail of vitamins and glutathione, along with a weekly NAD IV.

The doctor who I've been getting these IV's from is finally making his first appearance on my podcast.

For detailed show notes, including links to everything discussed in this episode can be found at www.bengreenfieldfitness.com/ivpodcast.

I've been getting a lot of questions lately about the mysterious molecule I consume before I eat bread and pasta - a compound that allows me to digest gluten without any of the "bathroom decommissioning" that so notoriously occurs after a hefty bout of gluten consumption.

After all, I don't want to not eat bread or pasta for the rest of my life. I find them enjoyable.

But due to glyphosate exposure from pesticides and herbicides, stress, a leaky gut and other modern assailants that make gluten a bigger issue than it ever has been in human history, I use a bit of better living through science to make gluten digestible.

In today's podcast, I interview the inventors of Gluten Guardian - Matt Gallant and Wade Lightheart - the guys who first appeared in the podcast "Probiotic Enemas, Digestive Enzyme Myths, Breathing 10 Kilograms of Oxygen, Low-Protein Diets & More!" and later in my article "How To Take Digestive Enzymes".

Matt Gallant is an entrepreneur, a poker champion, an ex-rock guitarist, a serial entrepreneur (who's built 13 companies in the last 20 years) strength and conditioning coach with a degree in kinesiology, the CEO and co-founder of a company called BiOptimizers.

Wade T. Lightheart, host of the AWESOME Health Podcast, 3-time All Natural National Bodybuilding Champion, advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute and Cofounder of BiOptimizers.

He is also the author of several books including the best-selling books, “Staying Alive in a Toxic World” and “The Wealthy Backpacker.” MARGE LINK TO WADE'S BOOKS

During our discussion, you'll discover: -Why Matt eats between 6-10,000 calories every Sunday...7.36

• For the calorie spike.
  • One meal per day for 6 days.
  • A combo of healthy and regular food.
  • Matt feels great afterwards.
  • He takes the day off from training.

-Why we should be cognizant of our gluten intake, even if we don't have celiac disease...10:30

•  New England Journal of Medicine listed 55 diseases that can be caused by eating gluten.
• Many times we're not aware of these diseases; can be immune, neurological and psychiatric.
• Differences between wheat germ in the gluten and gluten itself.
  • Different type of protein.
  • Both are resistant to digestion.
  • Can make the gut more permeable. (Leaky gut)
• Amylase/trypsin inhibitors come packaged with gluten - specifically wheat.
• What about other factors to leaky gut such as stress and glyphosate.
  • 4x increase in celiac disease; traced to glyphosate interrupting the digestive process.
  • Will continue to increase due to the exposure to glyphosate.

 -The use of enzymes in the preparation of food to increase its palatability...18:10

• In a perfect world, you'd be eating pre-digested food primarily.
• You use enzymes to assist with breaking food down.

-Do Matt and Wade recommend any panels for evaluating gluten sensitivity or gluten cross reactivity?...20:30

• Anti-tissue trans glutaminase or endomysial antibody.
• Recommend Cyrex.
• Helps you know if other foods such as coffee or quinoa are exacerbating your level of gluten intolerance.
• Also testing gliad and peptide antibodies.

How does gluten negatively affect the brain?...24:00

• Inflames the brain by causing an auto-immune response.
  • Antibodies intended to protect your body actually attack your body.
• During the digestive process, gluten can be broken down into proteins similar to psychedelic drugs.
  • Has an addictive quality.
• Overloads the brain with glutamate.
  • Irritates and damages brain cells.
• Negative impact on your social life.

-What Wade REALLY thinks about Monsanto...29:50

• They were written into protection against lawsuits by federal law during the previous administration.
• Demonstrable evidence of their products causing damage to the body.
• Has been bought out by Bayer.
• Food has essentially been mutated, much to our detriment.
• Destroy livelihoods of small farmers.

-The product Matt uses to pre-digest gluten before you even eat it...37:00

• Dipeptidyl peptidase 4, also DPP-4.
• Dissolves bread placed in water in 15 minutes (watch the video below)
• You take it while you eat.
• Does DPP-4 actually mitigate symptoms of gluten intolerance?
  • Depends on the dosage.
  • Can be taken as late as the day after eating.
• Citrusy foods have been found to inhibit DPP-4
  • Breaks down various hormones in the body such as insulin.

-Does DPP-4 have any effect on foods not containing gluten?...45:00

• Milk proteins, but not milk sugars like lactose.
• Good idea to add DPP-4 if you have a plant-based diet.
• Just mix and match until you find the right combination for you, and for the right meals.
• Safe for children to ingest.

-More on Matt and Wade's diet and workout regimen...49:50 -How do HCL and hydrochloric acid work with Gluten Guardian?...54:55

• Plays a supportive role
• Stomach acid decreases after the age of 35
• Simulates the effects of apple cider vinegar
• P3-OM 
  • Optimal time to take is before bed or first thing in the morning, rather than meal time.

-Matt plays "myth busters" with colonizing properties of probiotics...58:41 -Special offer from Matt and Wade...1:04:15

• Get 10% off your order of Gluten Guardian when you use code "greenfield" at www.glutenguardian.com
• 365 day unconditional money-back guarantee
• Brand new offer: "we'll fix your digestion guarantee"

Resource from this episode:

-Gluten Guardian - get 10% off already discounted price with code GREENFIELD

-Masszymes

-Cyrex blood panel for gluten allergy

-Book: Grain Brain

-A1 vs. A2 milk

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Oct 25, 2018, Q&A Episode 391: How Skinny Guys Can Get Big Muscles, Is GHB Safe, and What To Do After High School?

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Listener Q&A [00:35:31]

As compiled, deciphered, edited and sometimes read by Brock Armstrong, the Podcast Sidekick.

How Skinny Guys Can Get Big Muscles [00:35:40]

Alex says: I have been going to the gym with the goal of gaining muscle mass in my chest and shoulders but I am not seeing the gains I want. I have been watching protein and targeting my workouts. I am an ectomorph body type so is it pointless or do I just need to tweak a few things?

In my response, I recommend: -MAPS Anabolic -Dan John's "Mass Made Simple" -Get Fit Guy's Guide To Achieving Your Ideal Body -Weston A Price Dietary Guidelines -Thorne Biogest -Quicksilver Scientific Bitters #9 -Superessentials Fish Oil -Kion Colostrum -Kion Aminos -HMB/ATP -Creatine Is GHB Safe? [00:56:40]

Anonymous says: What are your thoughts on taking GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyrate) as an alternative to alcohol?

In my response, I recommend: -NOW Foods GABA -Passionflower extract What To Do After High School [01:04:51]

Eli says: It was good to see you in Toronto. I am 17-years old and finishing high school this year. My question is: if you could redo your journey from high school to now, what would you do differently? And what would you recommend for someone like me who is passionate about health and nutrition?

In my response, I recommend: -KionU -List of holistic nutrition programs -Chek certification - gives free access to lesson 1 -Book: College Disrupted by Ryan Craig -Book: A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College -Testing Out: How to “Moneyball” Your Way to a Debt-Free College Degree -Is College for Everyone? series

 

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