Boundless Life

The ocean has long been a source of sustenance, inspiration and adventure for Kimi Werner. And she is a big inspiration for me when it comes to my own love for water, freediving and spearfishing!

As a young child growing up off the grid in an isolated part of coastal Maui, she floated behind her father as he freedove for her family's primary food source. Only later as an adult on Oahu did she understand the central role the ocean was to play in her life when she discovered her own passion for free diving. Kimi has gone on to become the United States National Spearfishing Champion, a certified culinary chef, an award winning artist and a sought after speaker. Her daily life is a pure fusion of her talents, rooted in sustainability and geared towards a healthy future for our global community.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-What it was like to grow up with a father who freedove for her family's primary food source...5:00

-How to know which fish to eat and which fish are legal to shoot...17:15

-What Kimi's "fitness" routine look like for freediving and spearfishing...22:00

-Whether Kimi uses any special "biohacks" (e.g. hyperbaric oxygen, oxygen restrictions masks, etc.)...28:00

-Kimi's favorite fish and how she prepares them for consumption...36:00

-What really attracts sharks and other predators and how Kimi keeps them away...38:30

-Whether or not Kimi avoids foods like coffee and dairy in order to hold her breath for longer periods of time underwater...51:15

-Kimi's experience freediving in Antarctica...52:30

-Kimi's run-in with a great white shark...55:00

-And much more!

Resources from this episode:

-Kimi Werner's Instagram account

-Kimi Werner's webpage

-The Flowerchecker app

-The PlantSnap app

-Kimi's Great White Shark video

-How Breath-Holding, Blood-Doping, Shark-Chasing, Free-Diving & Ketosis Can Activate Your Body’s Most Primal Reflex.

-Freediving, Breathholding, Iceman Wim Hof, Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible Training, How To Use Static Apnea Tables & More!

-The Extreme Sport You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, And How You Can Use Its Renegade Techniques To Become Superhuman.

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Kimi or me? Leave your comments at http://bengreenfieldfitness.com/kimi and one of us will reply!

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Does tapping really work?

Tapping (also known as EFT or "emotional freedom technique") is a practice in which you tap specific parts of your body and simultaneously say an affirmation. It is supposedly a wildly effective healing modality that combines ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology.

My guest on today's episode - Nicolas Ortner - created and produced the breakthrough documentary film “The Tapping Solution,” which followed ten people who used tapping to overcome significant challenges, including chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, insomnia, devastating grief and more. He has also authored multiple books on tapping, including The Tapping Solution.

In today's show, I put Nick in the hotseat to explore whether or not tapping really works. During our discussion, you'll discover:

-The fascinating history of tapping...9:40

-A short demonstration of tapping you can do on your own...15:50

-What if you just tap and don't do any affirmations, or vice versa...33:30

-The difference between tapping and acupuncture...38:30

-Who chooses which points are supposed to be tapped, and what happens if you "forget" a point...42:00

-Whether Nick's "style" of tapping is different than other styles, and if so, how...52:30

-How tapping would look for a chronic injury or nagging pain in a joint that won't go away....55:30

-How to tap for insomnia, high cortisol or stress...57:20

-And much more!

Resources from this episode:

-Nick's "Tapping Solution" books on Amazon and his other titles

-Heal Your Body by Louise Hay

-http://research.eftuniverse.com/

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My guest on today's episode - Nicolas Ortner - created and produced the breakthrough documentary film “The Tapping Solution,” which followed ten people who used tapping to overcome significant challenges, including chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, insomnia, devastating grief and more. He has also authored multiple books on tapping, including The Tapping Solution.

http://bengreenfieldfitness.com/tapping

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Aug 2, 2018, Q&A Episode 388: Why Your Muscles Shake When You Exercise, How To Heal Your Joints With Celadrin, and What Is The Best Temperature For Hydrotherapy?

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News Flashes [00:08:20]

• Yet another fasting study suggests it’s not about the calorie restriction, but rather just the long periods of time without shoving food into your gaping maw.
• A ketogenic diet with adequate calories isn’t necessarily going to *add* slabs of muscle to your body, but you can at least *maintain* muscle WHILE decreasing body fat %.
• Appears it’s not glycogen depletion that makes a ketogenic diet reduce power production, but rather the acid ketones produce (meaning supplements like beta-alanine or sodium bicarbonate good choices for power keto athletes).

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Ben's Adventures: AUGUST

- August 17 - 19, 2018: Colorado Rockies Ultra Beast and Sprint Weekend, Breckenridge, Colorado. The mountain is calling! This is an extra-special Spartan race. Team members of my company, Kion, and I are competing together in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Experience the immense beauty of Colorado while conquering climbs, crawls, carries and traverses. See you there!

FUTURE

- October 14-16, 2018: SPARK BioHacking Conference, Toronto, Ontario. The 2018 SPARK Bio-Hack Conference features a series of talks by leaders across a range of fields with an eye on optimizing human performance, recovery, and longevity. Researchers, medical specialists and other biohacking experts will share provocative, informative, and inspiring presentations meant to invigorate your curiosity about health and amplify your life journey. Registration is now open, secure your spot here.

- October 11 - 14, 2018: 2018 RUNGA California Immersion Retreat. Runga is going to Napa! Join me, my wife, Jessa, Joe DiStefano and a small, intimate group of like-minded individuals for a weekend-long getaway. We’ve rented a beautiful mansion located in one of the most iconic countrysides in America– Napa Valley. We’ve thought of everything that you could possibly need to gently “press the reboot button” on your body and completely tune in to your heart, mind, body, strength, and spirit. Join the waitlist!

- December 2-8, 2018: RUNGA Retreat, Dominican Republic. You're invited to join me at RUNGA in December 2018. Join me in the Dominican Republic, one of the most beautiful places in the Caribbean, for this retreat. In all RUNGA activities, RUNGA invites you to come home to yourself. To see everything you'll be getting into, just click here. Use code BEN when you register so you get your gift when you arrive! I'll be there, too. Join the waitlist here.

- June 23 to July 7, 2019: Swiss Retreat and Liver Detox, Swiss Alps, Switzerland.  Join me for an immersive health retreat on the Swiss Alps in 2019.  Just click here to know more or reserve your spot now. -View the Official Ben Greenfield Fitness Calendar Here

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Listener Q&A

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

Why Your Muscles Shake When You Exercise [00:35:10]

Garett says: My question relates to whenever I do strength or resistance training my muscles tend to tremble and shake. And this has been happening since high school and I am 31 now. When it happens my friends tend to joke that I am trying to out lift my potential or that I am too weak to lift the weights at hand (which is not the case). I have read that it could be from dehydration but I drink a ton of water. Do you have any idea what might be causing this or a supplement that might help temper it, I would love to know.

In my response, I recommend: -Kion amino acids -Creatine monohydrate -My Eat Yourself Smart article -HALO headset -Superessentials How To Heal Your Joints With Celadrin [00:52:58]

Will says: What do you think of the supplement Celadrin. It contains something called esterified fatty acid carbons. Supposedly it is good for joints and tendons. I didn't have much of an idea what this means. I know certain fatty acids (like MCT oils and the like) are good for you but  I wasn't sure about these ones. Can you help us out?

In my response, I recommend: -Celadrin on Amazon -Kion Flex -Superessentials fish oil -The olive oil club Ben is a member of What Is The Best Temperature For Hydrotherapy [00:59:10]

Sheridan says: I was wondering what temperature you keep your hot tub at when you are doing your heat therapy. Is hotter better? Is there a sweet spot temperature wise or does it depend on what result you are after?

In my response, I recommend: -My article on sauna science

 

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Aug 2, 2018, Q&A Episode 388: Why Your Muscles Shake When You Exercise, How To Heal Your Joints With Celadrin, and What Is The Best Temperature For Hydrotherapy?

It's no secret that I inject myself with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). It's a bit spendy and a bit uncomfortable, but I do it. Nonetheless, some claim it's not necessary and that one can get all the NAD they need from supplementation. One such supplement that seems to be the current darling of the anti-aging industry is nicotinamide riboside (NR), and find out a bit more about it, I managed to get the discoverer of this "vitamin" on the show. His name is Dr. Charles Brenner.

Dr. Brenner is the discoverer of nicotinamide riboside (NR) as a vitamin and a leading expert on NAD, which he calls "the central regulator of metabolism". Originally from Boston, he is a 1983 graduate of Wesleyan University, who worked in biotech for 5 years before conducting his PhD research in Cancer Biology in the Biochemistry Department of Stanford University.

He subsequently performed his post-doctoral fellowship at Brandeis University before launching his independent career at Thomas Jefferson University. He moved to Dartmouth College in 2003, where he made the seminal discovery of the NR kinase pathway to NAD, and he was recruited to the University of Iowa in 2009 as the Roy J. Carver Chair and Head of Biochemistry.

Dr. Brenner has been funded by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the March of Dimes, the Beckman Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Trust, the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, the Roy J. Carver Trust, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and has won a number of awards for his research and contributions to innovative education.

For example, thanks to technologies that Dr. Brenner developed, it is now possible to determine how any disease or condition interacts the NAD metabolome, which is the set of genes and small molecules that comprise the NAD ecosystem.

Dr. Brenner is a founding member of the ChromaDex Scientific Advisory Board and serves as their Chief Scientific Advisor. Since conducting the first clinical trial of nicotinamide riboside in healthy adults, he has continued to conduct research on mechanisms by which NR boosts metabolism and protects against diseases and conditions of metabolic stress in animals and to participate in the safe and evidence-based clinical development of NR.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How Dr. Brenner enhances his own longevity and anti-aging protocol...8:45

-Why it's best to take NR supplements twice per day...11:00

-The seven specific ways that NAD can get damaged...17:30

-How you can test your own levels of NAD...32:30

-How Dr. Brenner discovered NR as a unique, new vitamin...37:15

-Why niacin in different than NR, and why niacin is not a good way to boost NAD...42:30

-The diseases and conditions that benefit from boosting NAD...48:00

-The connection between NAD, longevity and anti-aging...53:30

-Specific foods that you can eat to increase your NAD availability...1:03:15

-Dr. Brenner's opinion on intravenous NAD and injectable NAD...1:10:15

-Whether TruNiagen is different than any other forms of NR...1:19:30

-And much more!

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Resources from this episode:

-TruNiagen

-My podcast with the NAD injection clinic

-New study: A randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial of nicotinamide riboside in obese men: safety, insulin-sensitivity, and lipid-mobilizing effects

-ChromaDex: Response To The Claim Niagen Is Just 'Expensive Vitamin B3'

-Dr. Craig Koniver's response when I asked him about NAD IV absorption was to send me this fascinating pdf presentation.

-A portion of Tom Ingoglia of the NAD injection clinic's reply to me was as follows:

"There is a connexin that shows it (NAD) is crossing in fibroblasts. I want to say that it is connexin 43. There is a membrane channel for NMN too...NR has been around for 5 years. NAD IV has been around for 50..."

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Dr. Brenner or me, or about NAD or NR in general? Leave your comments below and one of us will reply!

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It's no secret that I inject myself with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). It's a bit spendy and a bit uncomfortable, but I do it. Nonetheless, some claim it's not necessary and that one can get all the NAD they need from supplementation. One such supplement that seems to be the current darling of the anti-aging industry is nicotinamide riboside (NR), and find out a bit more about it, I managed to get the discoverer of this "vitamin" on the show.

http://bengreenfieldfitness.com/nr

I recently spent an entire month in Estonia. It's a small country near the border of Finland and was the site of the 2018 Mind Valley University. I was fortunate to be invited as a Key Teacher at the month-long event and I wanted to share with you a conversation I had with Vishen Lakhiani. Vishen had a few questions for me, and I was also able to answer a few questions from the audience.

You can watch the whole interview and check out Mind Valley U here.

In my chat with Vishen, you'll discover:

-How the remedies to many common maladies are right in front of us in nature if we just know how and where to look... 7:00

-How you can "hack" your environment to mimic that of our ancestors, even if you're relegated to sitting in front of a computer screen all day... 9:30

-The research that shows how much exercise is "too much" for your own situation... 17:00

-What is my favorite "health hack?"... 24:00

-My thoughts on getting the best night of sleep possible... 29:00

-What are my thoughts on "nutrigenomics"?... 42:15

-The one change I made that took 17 years off my biological age... 47:45

-My best advice on how to look good in the buff... 59:30

-And MUCH more!

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Resources from this episode: -Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin Hardy

Have a question about anything I talked about in my interview with Vishen? Leave a comment below and I'll get back to you ASAP!

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I recently spent an entire month in Estonia. It's a small country near the border of Finland and was the site of the 2018 Mind Valley University. I was fortunate to be invited as a Key Teacher at the month-long event and I wanted to share with you a conversation I had with Vishen Lakhiani. Vishen had a few questions for me, and I was also able to answer a few questions from the audience!

For the millions, including me, that have had to deal with bloating and abdominal discomfort alone or accompanied by constipation, diarrhea or both, life can get pretty miserable. New research shows that the problems start with methane producing bacteria. Left untreated, these out-of-place bacteria feed off the foods you eat and create methane gas that leaves you bloated and uncomfortable.

Dr. Ken Brown, today's guest, is an expert at how to permanently fix this issue. He received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical School, and completed his fellowship in gastroenterology in San Antonio, Texas.  He is a board certified gastroenterologist and has been in practice for over 15 years with a clinical focus on inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome. Dr. Brown declares that his mission is to bridge the gap between medical and natural science.

For over a decade he has been conducting clinical research for various pharmacologic companies. Dr. Brown recognized an unmet need for something natural that could help his IBS patients find real relief.  After developing the only all-natural, clinically proven answer for IBS and bloating for over 6 years, ATRANTIL (ahh-tron-teel) launched in the summer of 2015.  Dr. Brown developed Atrantil to help those suffering from the symptoms of IBS which we now know are caused by bacterial overgrowth.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Why bloating occurs in the first place...10:00

-The very best test to determine the source of your bloating...18:00

-The mechanism by which polyphenol would get rid of bloating, and the fascinating action of "postbiotics"...24:00

-The South American herb "Quebracho", and how it can disrupt hydrogen production and kill archaebacteria in the gut...42:00

-How horse chestnut and peppermint work together to get rid of bloating and gas, and also to heal the gut...47:30

-Whether the three ingredients in Atrantil have been studied for efficacy in the gut...52:00

-The best way for people to get Atrantil, how long to take it, and after every meal...1:03:45

-And much more!

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Resources from this episode:

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-Viome microbiome test

-The FODMAP diet

-CBD Oil 

-My podcast on "Restore" with Dr. Zach Bush

Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Dr. Brown or me? Leave your comments at http://bengreenfieldfitness.com/gas and one of us will reply!

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