Ben GreenfieldFounder, Ben Greenfield Life

Protocols to Reset Your Brain, Boost Energy & Break Mental Limits: Best Of Optimized Living

12 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this conversational YouTube excerpt, Ben Greenfield and several co‑speakers share practical bio‑hacks aimed at combating brain fog, chronic fatigue, and mental limits. Greenfield describes his "reset button" routine of pairing sauna sessions and red‑light therapy with work tasks, emphasizing multitasking to maximize productivity and recovery. Another speaker recommends daily mini‑trampoline rebounding to stimulate the lymphatic system. A further discussion contrasts cold‑water immersion (immune‑boosting, resilience‑building) with cryotherapy (inflammation reduction and pain relief), noting that both can be incorporated. Finally, a participant highlights how habitual pornography use can become an emotional‑regulation crutch, altering identity and reducing resilience. The clip blends personal anecdotes, practical protocols, and brief psychological insight, offering listeners actionable steps to reset the brain and elevate energy.

Feeling stuck. If you're battling brain fog, chronic fatigue, or just know you're capable of more, this episode is your.
Reset button. For much of me, these kind of things are just woven in throughout the day. Like, if I have a bunch of journals and research articles to catch up on, I'll go into the sauna and do my sauna session simultaneous to that. Right. Or if I want to do red light therapy, I've got red light panels in my office and I'm flipping those on for the first 20 minutes of work. If I'm preparing for an interview with a podcast guest, I'm literally downloading their audiobook or other interviews that folks have done with them and listening to that while I'm doing my morning. While you multitask, Basically. Yeah. So you basically multitasking.
Just do whatever you can work out. Get one of those little mini trampolines so you can shake up your lymphatic system and you can get it moving. You could bounce. You could do the rebounding. Fifteen minutes a day.
There's a place, in my opinion, for both to do both cold water immersion and to do cryotherapy, but they have different benefits. I think with cold water immersion, it's great for boosting your immune system, for building resilience. With cryotherapy, it's more about the benefits that come from lowering inflammation. It's more if you're dealing with any pain. So I think they can both coexist into.
Someone'S lifestyle. Find porn and it becomes the thing that you use to soothe and stimulate. Then something difficult comes along, and instead of being able to emotionally regulate yourself, now you turn to porn to feel better. You know, you're escaping those challenging things in life. And so we know that people's identity changes because of porn use. And I know that's a big concept to throw out there, but.
It'S true. Dental mantra and constantly trying to push it further back and further back into my. Into my conscious mind. And it's through that process that I will start to see what thoughts are dominant against the mantra, and that kind of helps me see what my mind is subconsciously stewing on.