Ben Greenfield flew to Canada to work with a pro football team, using travel as a biohacking lab. He drinks up to 150 ounces of water on travel days, writes his New York Times bestseller from the back of Ubers, and runs blood work reviews from cars to turn every hour into optimization.
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I hydrate. I hydrate like an animal when I travel. I mean, at home, I probably drink at least my body weight in ounces divided by two, so I weigh about 190 pounds. So I'll have, like, a good, like, 95 ounces of water at home or more if I'm hitting the sauna when I travel. Like, I probably get, like 150 ounces on a travel day like this. Like, I'll bang through four of these just during a typical day of travel. Working in the back of an Uber. If I'm writing a book, I'm literally, like, writing a book, like, just working on chapters. People are like, o, what's your, like, riding routine? I'm like, whenever I'm able to. My first New York Times bestseller, I wrote the entire thing, like, in the back of, like, tuk tuks and Ubers and taxis all over the world. And, you know, you just gotta write what you can write. And then, like, right now, one of the things I do during the week is I help people with their blood work and their labs and do consultations. And so I'll spend time just, like, doing lab reviews in the back of a car and taking my notes. So.