Ben Greenfield, named America's Fitness Trainer of the Year in 2008, became known for extreme biohacking experiments including stem-cell brain injections. The documentary follows his reckoning with how obsessive self-optimization cost him family and spiritual life, and his shift toward prioritizing relationships and purpose over performance.
So dude, you are an interesting fucking guy. You do a lot of weird shit. Thank you, I think. Yeah, no, it's good. Yes, it's a compliment. You're almost notorious in the space for being a self-experimenter.
He's not just gonna talk about biohacking, but this guy is weird.
My guest today is Ben Greenfield, a world-class biohacker, an elite coach, a top fitness expert, an absolute icon in the fitness and wellness and biohacking industry.
My dad, he's always saying that he is a guinea pig, like putting stem cells in his brain and stuff. Crazy stuff. Like, what? What?
In 2008, he was voted America's Fitness Trainer of the Year.
He's always going to be a driven person, I think, in every aspect of his life.
I just love to figure out how to get the most out of the body and brain. A lot of that does involve these more fringe, edgy biohacks. What made you kind of flip in terms of your priorities?
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and yet loses his soul?
His work took precedence in a really kind of narcissistic kind of way.
For a while, he wasn't really a part of the family.
Everything I grew up holding dear and knowing was most important just kind of started to get put on the back burner. You know, it did not feel right at all. It wasn't right at all. Eventually the body will fade. And so if there's one part of your body that you're going to prioritize above everything else, it would be the soul. Having something, someone that you can depend upon, the belief that there's a greater story written for your life. If I didn't change something, then I was gonna lose everything.
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