The Naked Truth Audio, With Jessa Greenfield

We're live. Hi. We're live. We're. We're on video. So if you. You're listening to the audio. We're on video. You can see that I didn't shave. I don't look very good tonight. I didn't. You did your.

I actually did my hair.

I heard you. I heard the blow dryer there in the bathroom doing your hair. I did not. Honestly, for. For anybody who's. Who's logged into the app right now watching the video, yeah, I basically look like crap. But that's just because that was my.

Cause it's all about me.

That's right. If you're listening to this, then you are listening to the big bonus episode that's part of the Ben Greenfield fitness app this week, and that is the episode that we are calling the Naked Truth with Jessa Greenfield, where you get all the dirty little secrets that you.

Want to know about maybe my chocolate.

Addiction or Jessa or whatever. You know, that reminds me, while we're talking, I should probably pull up the Facebook page where people actually got a chance to ask their questions, and you can, I don't know, maybe grab a sip of your wine or something while I'm doing that.

That's my other addiction.

Yeah. So you're listening to the audio. This. You could watch the video, see us. See us doing it live. Sounds bad. All right, I'm gonna scroll on to the Facebook page. While I'm doing that, why don't you tell people about that wonderful frittata you made tonight? Give people your frittata.

I have mastered the frittata.

Tell them how they. How to do it. That thing is so good.

First, you slice up some bacon into little pieces, and then you cook it up until it's nice and crispy because nobody likes wilty bacon. Then you take it out, pour off some of the oil, throw in some onions, caramelize your onions. While you're doing that, you very thinly cut sweet potatoes. If you have a mandolin, that's way easier to do it with. So you cut your sweet potatoes like a music? No, man, no. It's like a cooking utensil. Yes.

That's a banjo, actually.

I like to play music when I cooking anyways. So you slice them real thin. Then when your onions are all done cooking, you lay your potatoes on top, throw on the bacon. I use six eggs, and I do this all in cast iron, because cast iron gives you the best crust ever. The edges get all nice and crispy.

And iron gives you iron, too.

That too little bonus There and then. So you put the eggs in, and then you sprinkle it with some cheese, whatever kind of cheese you have around. I had raw cheddar cheese, which is yum. And then you put it in the oven at 425. And. And it cooks in about 20 minutes. Delish.

Is that all? That's it. Are you done?

I'm done. You're the one who asked.

All right, well, cool. Well, we should jump into people's questions. What do you think? Should we do it? Okay. All right, so basically, what we will do is I've got the Facebook page pulled up. I'll read the questions because Jessa sucks at reading stuff out loud.

I do, actually. I'm a real fear of it, to be honest. Really, I do.

That's why Brock reads the question. Although now that people call it, people call in questions to the show. Now, should we answer the question that says, okay, why aren't you smiling? Your wife is sitting in your lap. I don't like to smile in photos as much.

That has that blue steel thing going on in all of his photos.

I like to pout in photos. Okay, here's the first question from Brett Hubbard. So Brett says, when you guys cheat on your diet, how much and what are they? Do you then go extra hard the next day? What he means by. I guess he means exercise extra hard. How do you eat at friends parties in houses? Okay, we don't go to parties for houses.

We just don't do that.

You go first.

For me, cheating is probably chocolate and wine, which I partook of both tonight. So that would probably be cheating for me. To me, though, that's not really cheating. I feel like that's more of just bad balancing life. Yeah, that's just. For me, that's just like, you know, I worked hard all day, you know, with the kids and cleaning and cooking and working out. I went on a nice trail run with my dog today. And just so everybody knows, I passed five mountain bikers today running uphill. Thank you very much.

Were they pushing their bikes?

No, they were biking. So anyways, so, you know, I have a hard, taxing day. I feel like, for me, it's just that balance. I give. I give a lot. And here's a little, you know.

So see, I think the whole question. Like, no offense, Brett, but I think your whole question is flawed. Like, I never think of myself as being on a diet. Like, I just eat food, like, when I'm hungry. Honestly, like, that is. That's my diet. And then I stopped when I'M full, and if I don't stop when I'm full, then, yeah, I'll. I'll eat less the next day. Or I'll.

Like, sometimes you don't eat breakfast.

Like, honestly, if I eat too much, I'll just look at my watch and I'll set my watch for, like, 12 to 16 hours, and I won't eat again until it says 12 to 16 hours are up. And just as he says this, like, yeah, you don't.

Sometimes you'll skip breakfast.

Sometimes I stuff my face at night, and I just skip breakfast. Like, and it's not like I eat a late breakfast. It's like, I skip breakfast. Like, I skip that whole meal. Because if you whatever. Say you're like, oh, I cheated. I'm gonna fast, or whatever, and then you fast, but you just, like, say, eat breakfast at 10 and then eat lunch at noon. You ate just as many calories as you would have. So, yeah, I do skip meals when I eat too much the night before. And, you know, as far as, like, going hard and working out hard the next day, I think that. Honestly, like, I don't know what you think about this, Jessa, but I think that's, like, this spiraling, like, death trail down to over training because, well, then. Then it's like bulimia, right?

I've never.

You're, like, eating a bunch. Well, yeah. You're, like, eating a bunch, and then it's like, I'm gonna go work out hard.

Yeah, I guess. Yeah.

I used to do that when I was bodybuilding.

To me, I just feel like, like I said, there. There's just a balance in life, and I don't feel like I owe anything. I guess I'm not keeping a tally or anything.

Like, food isn't a bank.

Yeah, I'm like. I'm not tallying things. And I'm like, I'm just. Yeah, I just. I don't. I don't feel like I owe.

But you could.

To me, like, some people feel like, you know, you gotta punch the ticket. You owe something. You know, you owe this. And I don't. I don't. Really.

A fun way to live.

Well, exactly. I really feel like you need to balance this. Sounds ether or ethereal or whatever.

It's like.

But it's like, you really have to balance the spirit of life and that into eating and working out and everything. It's not just about eating and working out. There's so many other.

Don't hit. Don't do that. Don't hit the bed. There's a microphone. She gets excited.

There's just so many other things in life, in my opinion, that you have, that requires. It just requires a sensible balance.

And I like to think about it this way because I'm ancestor.

I know that's so, like, broad, and I feel bad.

It's like, so if you were. If you were like, a caveman or a hunter, gatherer or whatever, and you came across a kill, like, you hunted down a bison with your. Don't look at me like that. You hunted down a bison with your spear. It's like, then. Then you ate it and you feasted upon that, or you found, like, a fruit tree or whatever, and you feasted upon that, and then it might be a really long time before you eat again. I think that sometimes it's okay to just, like, have a big meal and then just be like, okay, I'm not gonna eat again until tomorrow at noon or whatever. Like, you know, and granted that may kind of sort of be thinking of food like a bank, but to me, it's more of just like, this concept that, okay, well, I ate a bunch of calories tonight, so I. I don't get as many calories tomorrow, you know, And. And for me, I think, like, that when I'm trying to eat, you're different.

Than me that way, because I was like, you. You are much better about. I don't know if it's better or you're just much more rigid about, like, you know, just keeping track of that sort of thing and me keeping that in balance. It seems like that to me.

I also cheat more than you, I think. Not. Not like. I think you. You cheat more. Like, because I find, like, sweets and candy bars and stuff in the console of the car. I do.

I know.

Find that. And, you know, I do.

I know, but I'm not keeping it from you.

Like, I don't do that. That type of stuff. Like, my deal is, like, Jessa will make a really good meal, and I'll just, like, eat a crapload of it. Like, Jessa will eat. Jessa will eat one plate of the meal, and, you know, the boys will have one or two servings or whatever, and I'll just have, like, a couple of huge ass servings. And, you know, I. I don't eat candy bars, and I don't eat junk food, and I don't do stuff like that. But when I get access to good food, like, I honestly. And I've told Jessa this before, like, if I actually ate as much as I really wanted to eat, I would be eating as much.

It blows my mind because Ben eats a lot.

I would be eating.

He's like, you eat a lot of food.

Because my, like my. I maintain a weight of about 175 pounds, which for me I like because it helps me to run fast and stuff when I'm racing. But if I eat as much as I want to eat, like my normalized weight is about 190 pounds. So I'm always running at least 15 pounds light.

Yeah.

And like Jessa and Justice seen me jacked before and like big and like kind of what happens when I just eat any and then live at the gym and. Yeah, I mean, like, I don't do that. I. I think I put the reins on.

See, I think I've been the same weight for the last 10 years. No. But since I was nine through puberty pretty much. I think that my heaviest was my. When I stopped running in college, so.

And then he says, how do you eat at friends parties?

Generally I eat before or I try to eat something before.

I do that too. Like, I don't show up to parties hungry. Yeah, I think that's a mistake.

Cause, well, a lot of times, like we don't.

Unless I know there's kick ass food, then I do.

Yeah. I'm like, we don't generally do bread. I mean, we'll do sourdough and that sort of thing, but we don't do regular bread. So. And a lot of like parties and stuff like that have food like that, like bruschetta and all those things. And I know for myself I'm tempted by stuff like that. I love bread. I grew up on it. My mom, every time I came home from school, I was like, fresh plate of cookies and she made her own bread and cinnamon rolls. I mean, that's how I was raised. So it's a huge temptation for me. So if I don't eat a pretty substantial amount to the point where I'm full, then I will totally succumb to stuff like that. Because I really have a problem with like saying no to stuff like that. I do.

See, I don't have a problem saying no. But for me, I just like, don't want to necessarily. Like, sometimes it's embarrassing, right? When whatever, you're at somebody's house and they serve hamburgers and you like take the bun off and you wrap the beef in lettuce and then you like eat two burgers instead of the bun. But it's like, it's. If you just tell people you're like, whatever. Bread gives me a stomachache, so I don't eat it or something like that. I mean, you can do that. And I guess my whole mentality, even though I'm not Paleo or whatever, when I go over to somebody's house, that's kind of the way that I think. I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna eat bread, legumes, beans, just pretty much anything where I don't know how it's been prepared. And just eat the meat, and you eat the vegetables, and you pick your way around the rest of the stuff, and that's not that hard to do. You can just, like, smash food up underneath your plate, and then, you know.

A real good trick that I.

It's like the. I'm gonna look up the jack handy while you tell your trick.

Well, I'm like, if there's, like, a lot of foods that you don't traditionally eat at a friend's house, when you go there, I just make sure I chew my food really well, and it takes me a long time just to get through one bite. So it looks like you're eating and stuff like that, and you're enjoying their food, and because you don't want to offend them. So it looks like you're eating and it's taking you a while, and you don't have to eat the stuff you don't want to eat. You know, just go around.

Yeah.

So just chew your food really well.

Let me find that jack candy post real quick.

I don't even know what you're talking about here.

Let me find it. Okay, It's. It's kind of sort of what I was talking about. Actually. This isn't the one, but this one's pretty funny, too. Okay, One way to get a free steak dinner is to keep sending it back, saying it's too rare. You take a bite each time, then send it back until it's gone, and then the restaurant is so embarrassed for screwing up so many times, they don't charge you. One problem with this is the time factor, though. So I usually bring a steak in my pocket, too, and chew on that while the waiter isn't looking. There you go.

There's another now you know how to.

Get a freezer strategy for you.

I used to be a waitress, and I would be super annoyed about something like that.

Okay, another question from Stephanie. Stephanie said, if Jessa nursed, did her diet look differently then? Did she take in more starches? Do you even remember that far back?

Yeah, it was only, like, five years Ago, four years ago.

And boobs. You don't have boobs. I like petite girls, but just saying.

You know, for me, I just ate what I felt like. I mean, I didn't, to be honest with you. My whole, like, health food journey kind being more aware of that. I mean, I felt like I was. I've always been pretty healthy. I've been heavy on the vegetables kind of person, you know, my whole life, for the most part. But my whole, like, I guess, pursuit of. It didn't really happen until my boys started eating solids, which, I mean, I. Yeah, I would say that that's true, but I was never.

Is it true that you ate more?

Yeah, I definitely ate more.

Of course.

Yeah. Well, and I was also running and doing a lot of other things, so I had to. Because to produce enough and still be able to work out and that sort of thing, you have to. There's no way you can't. Because you're. Any kind of. Stress on your body lowers your milk production. And so if you're running and you're in any way stressed, your body's anyway stressed by that, your milk production will go way down.

I don't make as much milk when I'm stressed.

Swears up and down. He can milk himself, though.

Do I look better with my hood on? I know.

You look like a college student, like a hobbit.

So, like, if I could. If I could go back and, like, go back to our baby. I mean, our kids aren't, like.

They're not, like, they're five.

They're smart and everything, but, like, if I could go back, I would probably. Especially after reading, like, Dave Asprey's better baby book and going through, like, Chris Kresser's.

They're definitely things I would program.

Like, I think probably I would have made sure that Jessa had more, like, raw, full fat yogurt and more fish oil and walnuts and fish and, like, fatty cuts of beef and just, like, probably even more fat than she actually had. Realizing how important that is kind of.

Interesting to me because I don't feel myself that I actually process, like, fatty foods very well.

Yeah, but you would make that sacrifice.

I know I would, but I'm just saying, like, I've done it. I did the bulletproof coffee, and I. Every time I do it, I feel like I'm gonna bomb.

Part of that, too, though, is, like, with stuff like that, with eating high fat diet, like, it takes 10 to 14 days.

Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna throw up more bile all day. I feel. Feel like that.

Enzymes and stuff.

Nothing against Dave. Aspen.

We should show people that book. Did you read that book yet?

The baby one?

No, this one, the Hormone is still.

Going through Hunger Games, and I've decided that I will.

This is a good. Here, I'll hold it up for the video. This is a good book. She's coming on the podcast, actually, next month. And by the way, if you're on the app, like, a lot of our special interviews are going to start going out to app owners and premium subscribers only.

But she's. She's.

I'm reading Done with Sarah Godfrey, the Hormone Cure. I'm gonna get her on. It's called Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with the Godfrey Protocol. Some of the stuff she says is stupid. She's like, oh, well, if you feel like you gotta have a glass of wine at the end of the day, you're hormonally imbalanced. And I'm like, maybe not. Maybe you're just like a normal person. And then she, like, is way. Well, she's not way against it, but she's like, you shouldn't wake up out of bed in the morning and feel like you need a cup of coffee. Coffee. Whereas I feel like I do. No, I don't feel like I do either. Well, no, no, I do feel like I do.

I don't.

But for me, it's not because I. Because I've tried it with decaf and I've tried other things. It's like. For me, that's like my little rat cocaine pellet.

Like your ritual.

Yeah, it's a ritual. It's not because of the chemical. It's because I just, like, I want a cup of coffee because. Yes, because I went decaf, which only has, like, what, 15% caffeine? I mean, barely me.

It takes me, like, to one in the afternoon to finish.

I haven't had a caffeinated. I haven't had a caffeine, caffeinated cup of coffee in, like, eight days. I just switched to decaf. Like, a week ago. I tried to trick you into switching decaf, but.

What do you mean, trick me?

I tried to get rid of the caffeinated coffee the last time we got coffee.

Well, but honestly, for me to drink a cup of coffee takes about one in the afternoon. One cup. That's. I just am a sipper because I.

Order coffee from my mom's coffee house. She sent us both versions. So my nefarious plan did. I wanted to see if you would implode okay.

I've done it several times and never have.

I know, but I want to see what happened when you didn't know. Okay, another question. What are Ben's biggest diet cheats?

Almond butter.

Almond butter. I'm talking about that in the podcast tomorrow.

I think that's your biggest question about almond butter. Almond butter and chocolate.

Almond butter are cheap.

Yes.

Okay.

Like, I eat the roasted nut.

I eat about 2 tablespoons of almond butter a day. To me, that's not cheating. Have you ever seen a tablespoon of almond butter?

Yeah, I cook all the time.

I eat 2 tablespoons of almond butter a day. I usually have a tablespoon in my morning smoothie. My morning goulash, or whatever you want to call.

It's not a smoothie, people.

Then I have a tablespoon in my coconut milk. How is it not a smoothie?

It's like a pretty pudding. I don't even. It's almost like. It's almost like a frosting.

No, I'm not. No, that's. That's like the goulash I'm talking about when I put a bunch of spinach in a blender with an avocado and a banana. How is that not a smoothie?

It's more like a pudding than it is.

It's a smoothie. I mix it thick enough to eat it with the spoon.

I've seen your. Whatever you call it. It looks like a. Like.

Yeah, that's. That's similar, except and there's no spinach and avocado and stuff. It's just like protein powder and almond butter and coconut.

This is where we, like, differ a lot. She doesn't actually like my food. Any engineered food.

And that food tastes like freaking ambrosia. It's good.

It looks so disgusting. Just the texture alone would make me want.

Yeah, probably almond. I would say chocolate, too. I would say dark. Because when you make chocolate, I like. I don't like sweet stuff except chocolate. Like, that's the. And I like super duper dark. Like 85, 90%. Like, as dark as possible.

Okay, I have a question. When they say 85%, is that the amount of milk or the amount of sugar? That's.

That's the cocoa content.

I know, but what. What's that? What's the other percentage?

The rest is dairy and sugar and, you know, sometimes emulsified or emulsifiers. Soy and everything else.

Okay, I'm just curious because I was thinking about that the other day.

You get the organic rainforests or whatever. It's Called I guess rainforest. That's not too bad. I mean, if you really want to go all out, you get the organic dark cocoa nibs from like Amazon and those are like super pure. But so, yeah, probably I would say almond butter, dark chocolate, sometimes red wine and gosh. I mean, like, that's kind of about it compared to my old days of like everyday lunch, drive thru, super sized big Mac at McDonald's. I don't think that's.

I've never eaten that way.

I used to do like four or five sodas a day, so.

So, yeah, McDonald's only happened on our birthdays when I grew up.

Keep my almond butter. Okay. How does Jessa cope raising two ultra healthy kids? Well. Well.

It requires a lot more effort, I think, than most people put to their kids. And I'm not degrading anybody, but I was like, I make almost everything that they eat, so it's pretty much everything's made from scratch. And that I've gotten really good at it where it's. I can make things in bulk.

If you, if you didn't though, I think that you could still, like, you'd probably spend a little bit more money, but you could still do stuff like get whatever paleo packs online and you can get like healthy jerky.

Yeah.

Like, Jessa does do a lot of it herself, but I don't, I don't think that you, that you have to be a stay at home mom for your kids to eat really healthy. I think you just spend a lot of money. Really?

Yeah. You would spend more money, definitely. But I was like, like today I spent half of my, my day out of the house. I wasn't even home and I managed to make yogurt. I managed to make chicken stock or bone broth. I managed to make snacks for my kids. A Frittata.

You're easy. 24 steps. Frittata.

It wasn't 20%. It was very easy. You only have to use one pan too, so it's even better. So I was like, so if I'm not home, like all the time cooking.

You have a system though.

Yeah, it's like. But, you know, I know, like, that's.

A lot of the stuff you teach in the inner circle.

Yeah, it's like, I know, like, what I can do, you know, the same time. Like tonight I'm gonna be soaking nuts and tomorrow they're gonna be hydrating and you know, and I'm also gonna be making sourdough. And so, you know, it's just like, I know I've done It enough times where I know what I can do. I can do multiple things. I. At one time. Because a lot of what we do, you know, like sourdough is like a two day process. So it's not like. But I'm. It's not a very active process, soaking your nuts overnight. And then it takes almost two days to dehydrate. So it's. You know, these things take time. That's not active working time, but it's.

It sounds really foreboding like when you. Yeah, it does when you first hear about it. But I think that as it becomes part of your life.

But once you realize that you can do those things and at the same time and not, you know, like, have.

Them overlap, you can still do stuff like get raw seeds and nuts from Whole Foods and get avocados.

I saw something the other day. Sprouted flour.

Sprouted flour. There you go.

Yeah, I almost picked it up. I was kind of interested. I'm gonna research that.

Yeah, you should. So, like, I don't. I want to ask you a question. This isn't a question from a listener, but do you ever get embarrassed, like at soccer when, like, you know, our kids aren't getting the gluten snacks, or when you're the person who shows up at the birthday party or soccer practice or whatever and you've got like the weird foods like coconut macaroons and coconut water that the other parents have never seen before. Like, are you proud of that? Are you embarrassed? Are you self conscious? Like, where do you kind of fall on that end of the spectrum?

I. I'm not embarrassed by it.

I don't know.

Let me think about that one for just a second.

Because it's like, it's one of those things where it's like, you know, like our podcast listeners and like the online crowd.

I don't like to make a big deal out of it.

People who come to the Superhuman Conference and stuff, it's like for them, they're just like, yeah, that's way cool.

Yeah. But most people, it's strange, but I don't try to make a big deal out of like the fact that we don't eat bread. Like, if somebody brings like cheez, its.

You're kind of subtle about it.

Yeah. If somebody brings cheese, like a lot.

Of times the kids get to take them home and then they trade them into me for a healthy bar.

And they do it when we're home. When I don't make a. I try not to make. I don't want people to feel badly. To me, that's just like foreboding and just not kind.

Try not to say stuff in front of the other parents to your kids, like, oh, that's bad for you, and that's gonna make you stupid and ruin your gut because then the other parents feel self conscious.

So I don't really try to. I don't say anything. I don't even tell them that our kids are gluten free. I just take the cheez its and we feed them to the birds, you know, that sort of thing. And, you know, the birds. And then our kids get what we call a superhuman superhero bar. And, you know, they're really excited about that and it's something special for them. I don't mind them getting special things, especially, you know, when they do something that they're proud of. But, yeah, I don't like to talk about it really with them so much. Unless somebody asks me, I'm not gonna talk. I know. We have a giant fly.

Yeah.

Yeah. Like, if. Unless somebody asks me about it, I'm not gonna talk about it, really. Because to me, it's almost like preaching at someone or. And I don't like doing that. I don't. Yeah, I don't want people to feel poorly about themselves if I bring something. Most women are always like, wow, you did a homemade. Yeah, you know, I just make it sound like, Yeah, I just, you know, my kids helped me. It was fun. We had fun, you know, making you a snack that's. And, you know, it may be like a macaroon or something.

And, you know, and I totally understand that. Like, I don't think it's stupid or whatever that some parents just, like, don't homemake their kids foods because, well, honestly, in this day and age, in this economy, like, if both parents have to work, you're honestly, like, like, we happen to be in a situation where, you know, like what, like five years ago, you. You stopped your job as a graphic designer pretty much when we had our kids, you know, and, yeah, I have to step up and I have to work a lot more. But, you know, that's just the way that we decided to do it. It was like, okay, I'm gonna work more and Jess is gonna stay home with the kids. But I mean, like, if both parents work, like, I think it's fine to just, I mean, to just maybe try and spend a little bit of extra money at the grocery store and get the healthy stuff. And. Yeah, so I know that's not what this whole podcast is supposed to be about. And we just did an inner circle podcast on superhuman kids and all that jazz, but there you go. Here you go, Jessa. Here's one for you. Does Jessa take supplements?

I do take some. I am a real minimalist, though. Minimalist, yes. I take a fish oil, magnesium, and generally, like a multi. Like a good multi.

I take a multi.

Yeah. I've been taking the impacts.

Oh, you've been taking that one?

Yeah.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah, so that's. And actually, I'm taking glucosamine now just because I've been having knee issues, but.

Knee issues? Which. The cap reflex stuff. Yeah.

So that's generally what I take, but we.

You started taking because you got. I. You know, just straight up lay everything on the table. You're getting, like, PMS and stuff.

Oh, yeah.

You start taking the bitchy pills. 5 HTP.

Yeah, I'm human.

Yeah. But like, a 5 HTP supplement with.

A little bit of magnesium and actually, I loved it. Yeah, I thought it was great.

Yeah. We used a couple different ones. There's one that, like, my company that I'm launching this year is formulating, and it's called Mood, and it's basically 5 HTP and phosphatidylcholine and some mood enhancers.

I noticed a difference.

The same neurotransmitters that you tend to be deficient in when your progesterone levels plummet, when you're getting pms. And then you also use the stuff I picked up at Paleo effects from. On it. It was. Was it called, like, calm or something like that?

No, Mood.

Yeah. New mood.

That. And I liked that one.

Yeah.

Yeah, that one was good. There was one that I took that I didn't notice as much.

Yeah.

But the new mood, I noticed.

So you take. So you've taken, like, five HTP and stuff for. For pms. The bitchy pills. The bitch. And then magnesium. Yeah, just, like, take that before you go to bed at night. Mm. I honestly don't even pay it. I don't know what she takes. Fish. Fish oil pills. Everybody thinks that. I like, write out Jess. Diet.

No.

Fish oil pills.

Ben knows better than that.

The super essentials. Fish oil pills. And then. What was the last one? Oh, multi.

Yeah.

The inner essence. I don't think we. I don't think, like, Pacific Elite Fitness even carries that anymore.

No, I don't.

You must have found, like, some old, random bottles out in the garage.

No, I'm taking the impacts 100.

Oh, the MPX one. That's not, that's bitter melon extract.

Okay, I'm gonna take that.

That's a blood glucose I didn't know you're taking. I mean, that's good for you. I know, it's like a longevity thing. I didn't know you were taking it though. I was wondering why my bottle was disappearing so far. Okay, now I know. Alright, so yeah, Jessa does take supplements. Those are the ones she takes and.

Actually the inner essence ones I took a lot before I was pregnant and after I was pregnant. So that was a multivitamin that I heavily relied on during that time.

Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. Oh, this should be a fun one. What are the most annoying things about Ben?

He farts a lot.

I used to fart a lot.

You don't as much anymore, but you still do.

I let one rip today in the living room.

My kids honest to God believe that women don't fart.

No. Like when I was a bodybuilder, like when I used to do like a bunch of whey protein and like high protein diet and all that crap, I. I was like 24 7, like farting like all the time. And you would wake up in the morning in the room and just, just be nasty, rancid fart, stale fart smells. Yeah. And now that I've kind of done a GI cleanse.

No, I was gonna say you are much better now.

Take probiotics or eat fermented foods. Like I would say, probably the biggest.

Issue for me more than any person.

I know every endurance athlete because of fermentable carbohydrates.

I know, I know, I know. I'm not being mean. They're asking.

Yeah, no. Okay, yeah. So I fart. So honestly, like, I think pretty much every guy farts and Jessa smells it more. Because I work from a home office and a lot of times that means a standing workstation in the living room. And when you're standing up with like one leg up on a stool, sitting there, working, don't get defensive. That's like a farting position. That's like God has certain farting positions that work really well. And that's one of them is standing with one leg up, which I do a lot.

So I'm not holding it against.

Sometimes it just slips out.

I'm not holding it against you.

All right, what are the other annoying things about me?

You are like.

Bracing.

You're really good at your job and you're really focused on that. But when it comes to the house, you're really. You don't put anything away. Nothing. He's kind of sloppy. He's actually really sloppy.

I. I will grant that.

You're really sloppy.

A lot of people think I'm type A.

No, you're.

If you.

If you're tight. No, I said my.

Seriously, if you're watching the video right now, look behind us like, that is our entire office just, like, boxes full of crap and, like, books all over the place and. Yeah, I'm sloppy. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not.

You're really good. Like I said, you're really organized.

I'm organized up inside of my head.

And working out and that sort of thing, but when it comes to, like, everyday life, you're kind of a mess.

Yeah. Okay, I'll grant that. Let's do three strikes and you're out. What's. What's the last thing you eat?

Some of the strangest food I've ever seen in my life.

I said that. Like, it's not that strange.

It is, really.

Okay, name some. Other than me mixing coconut milk with protein powder and almond butter, which I think most listeners. If you're listening.

Okay, I know what it is.

And you think that that's strange, Go to Facebook and tell me, because I think most of you do not think that's strange.

Okay, here's what's strange.

Okay.

What is that stuff that you take before you go to bed? That powdery thing that you put in your mouth?

Energy bits?

No, it's that powder thing. I don't know what it is.

The green stuff?

No, it smells horrible.

I only do that, like, once a week.

Okay, well, he used to do.

It's somnidren. It's A G, A, B, A. It's gamma amino butyric acid.

Okay.

So basically, it amps up your growth hormone when you're asleep. And it smells kind of weird.

No, you used to do it every night. And then he'd, like, try and lean over and kiss me. Heck no. That stuff is like, oh, my goodness. Okay. I don't even like taking vitamins. Like, the taste and stuff like that. That was like, a giant vitamin balm in my mouth. It was disgusting. It's disgusting. It's so gross.

It's so good.

I can smell it on his breath now. I was like, don't even come near me.

No, Like, I was well aware, like, on nights when I took that I was not getting any unless I, like, really was gonna go, like, clean out my mouth with it, like, bomb afterwards.

It's disgusting.

Okay.

It's Gross.

So if you don't like it, I eat weird foods, I'm sloppy, and sometimes not all the time. I take supplements before bed that make my smell not so kissable.

Not so like, not at all kissable.

Kill puppies or anything like that. So it's not bad. Okay, so this, this is. Might be kind of a related question, but does Jessa think Ben's superhuman stuff is all silliness? And let me say right now, if you're watching the video I'm wearing, it's. It's actually, it's 10:15pm at night when we're recording this. I'm wearing my blue light blocking glasses and Jess isn't.

And I'll sleep like a baby. Maybe I will. I guarantee it. I don't think it's silliness. I think people have. Can take things to a religious kind of religious extreme.

Walking around the living room the other day, shocking the hell out of my quads.

Yeah. Yeah. I think things can be like I said, I'm a real person. I really believe in, like, balance and that sort of thing. And so.

Well, let me. Let me say this.

I don't. Wait.

Like, from the time you met me, I was a bodybuilder when we got married. And so, like, from the time you met me, I was like doing 30 minute flex sessions in front of the mirror.

I wish I had a video camera so you could see it.

I've pretty much like from the.

And I think you had the Rocky song. What was the Rocky song you did?

No, well, I had to post my post song. Yeah, I know. It was Rock youk Like a Hurricane by the Scorpion.

Yeah, rock it like a hurricane.

And then you'd like, do like the front flex was like Rock youk.

Like, I love. I love the butt clinch. It was.

Here I am.

You're gonna knock.

Knock the microphone off. So I've all. I don't think you've ever, like, lived with a normal man.

No, I think that's probably true. But you're asking me what I think about being superhuman or like all the.

Gadgets not living with you that I use because I know I get some flack sometimes. People who are like, you know, whatever, the glasses and the Earth pulse, he does it all.

He does all that stuff. He really does.

I don't think people don't believe that I do that stuff, but they want to know what you think of it.

I don't do any of that stuff.

She doesn't.

I don't.

Unless it's like by Osmosis Cuz like I have the earth pulse under the bed.

And so like, yeah, I guess I do that.

It's on my side of the bed.

But it's not that I don't. I disbelieve it. To me, it's just not very functional for me. I don't know.

I think it might come.

I was like, I can't sit there and shock the hell out of my legs while I'm trying to cook, you know, for the kids or do something with kids. Yeah, I. I just. It's not that I don't believe in it. I just.

You actually could. I could because like I was doing it. I did a full phone consult yesterday while I was hooked up to compact. So like sometimes I. I work while I'm shocking myself and it's like when I try and time it so that I pause and ask a question about the time, I know like the big shock on my legs is coming. Because otherwise it sounds like I'm whatever. Like having a bowel movement or whatever is. I'm.

I guess for me, I just feel like it's just life should. Stuff should be more natural. I just feel like life should be natural. I don't feel like things need to be superimposed. I always tell Ben, like, here's an example. I always tell Ben, I was like, people, nobody needs a gym. I was like, if they just worked in the yard and grew their own food, you would be fitter than a fiddle. I mean.

But I agree with that myself. My whole deal is. Well, my whole deal is two things. First of all, I am okay. I'm okay with the whole ancestral approach to living, but I think that sometimes we would be foolish to ignore better living through science based off of the fact that we're surrounded by an industrialized world. So like, sure, back in eight days or whatever, I wouldn't have to wear blue light blocking glasses at night night because things are lit with torches and candles, which is a different wave spectrum and you'd be asleep. Or like I wouldn't have to, you know, for example, like wear a bracelet. That helps to mitigate some of the effects of electromagnetic exposure because there wouldn't be computers and tv.

I agree with all that. I think that's fine. But I, you know.

Yeah, I was seeing if you were wearing a bracelet.

Oh no, I'm wearing a wrist. I do. I actually normally have it on, but this is my hair.

So that's one thing is that I am a firm believer that in an industrialized age that sometimes better Living through science can help you out a little bit, especially when you're trying to push your body above and beyond, like training for Ironman or whatever. Then the other thing is that, like, I'm kind of a messenger. Like, that's part of my. Like, I'm a podcaster and a blogger. I'm a writer. I wrote reviews. I write for magazines and stuff like that. And, like, I consider it part of my job to go out and try this stuff out for people and guinea pig it and see if it works or not. And you've seen that before, too. Like, we've got a garage full of stuff that.

I've got a garage.

There is a bunch of stuff that people have sent me that I just don't use.

Yeah. And no, I think you're right. I think there are definitely things that are worthy of implementing, and I think there are a lot of things that you can just push aside and say that's just not. I don't feel like it's very natural. In my opinion, you're on the computer a heck of a lot more than me. And I don't even like to even use my cell phone. So, yeah, I don't. I'm not around that stuff a lot. Most people ask me even why I have a cell phone, because I don't answer my phone ever. I just return calls. So, yeah, there's just. The best way I can describe me in our family, in our relationship, is that I'm more of, like, the dirty hippie type in our family. I am dirty. I am the hippie.

Yeah.

Yeah. I grew up.

She doesn't shave.

I do, too. I do. I'm a lady. I'm just a hippie lady.

Did you do the laser thing yet? Talking about doing the lasers. What? The lasers. Remember? You were gonna do a laser? Yeah.

No, I haven't.

Anyway, hippies don't do laser.

Well, this hippie does.

I agree.

I feel like I'm more like, get back to basics. Keep it simple. Keep it simple.

I would say that Jessa does keep me grounded to that extent. I think that if Jessa had the mentality of, like, you know, working out like an Ironman triathlete and doing a lot of whatever, like, engineered foods and, like, probably it would be really easy for us to be the couple that goes way off the deep end. Like, believe it or not, I think I could be way, way more freaking weird than I. Than I am. And I will acknowledge that I'm weird, but I think that Jessa does kind of keep me Grounded in that respect, I would say yes. I love you. Okay, let's see if we have any more questions on Facebook. Not any biggies on Facebook. I think we answered most of them. And I know we're going to be doing more episodes with Jessa, by the way, for the premium part of this app. So if you see, like, a locked episode with Jessa, you just have to, like, log into the premium deal and.

You can know this.

Yes. Premium. I told you this. I told you we were doing this. I knew I was doing every single.

I don't mind. I just didn't know.

You're, like, a featured. Featured celebrity guest. Okay. I've got one other here that came through. It's kind of an interesting one. We'll end on this one. It's kind of fun. What's it like living with a podcaster who sits around at home in his underwear?

Um, sexy. I just want everyone to know the first time I ever met Ben was in his underwear. Yes. I knocked on your house. There was a bunch of guys who lived there, and I was friends with Matt, and he answered the door in his underwear. It was weird.

Actually.

The underwear part is kind of normal to me by now. I was like, ben just is in his underwear most of the time.

Probably the UPS and FedEx guys think I'm hot for him because they'll, like, open the door and I'll be in my underwear. I'll be like, hey, sign that a few times.

Or they think you're unemployed.

Alcoholic.

Yeah. But it's nice that our kids get to see him all the time.

In my underwear.

In his underwear. Our boys are in their underwear all the time too. They prefer to be naked or in their underwear. So I'm like, so it's awesome that he gets to hang out with the boys. Like I said before, though, Ben is a little sloppy.

I podcast my underwear a lot. People knew that they wouldn't take me as seriously. If they could close their eyes and picture me sitting there and like, my Lucky Charms underpants. Podcasting, I think I probably wouldn't get taken as seriously.

I'm curious where you even got those to begin with.

Lucky Charms.

Yeah. Did you get this off of a cereal collecting cereal box coupon?

Possibly. I don't have them for a while.

Yeah, you have. I don't know. It's. It's. I think it's great. I enjoy him being around for. For the most part.

She likes me in my underwear. Yeah, that's right.

But yeah.

So big hairy beast.

I guess it doesn't faze me anymore because most of our marriage has been that way.

Most of our marriage, it's been me in my underwear.

So, yeah, so it's like, it doesn't.

Really phase me, but I am clothed. Like, I am fully clothed right now because we recorded this whole thing on video.

All you can see is sweatshirt, though.

All you can see is my hoodie. But what is beneath what is beneath what lies beneath, you'll never know. My hoodie, hobbit head, and hobbit feet. Well, cool. I guess it's, like, bedtime. It's, like, almost 10:30, and I think we've been going for about an hour. So anyways, though, if you have more questions, questions for Jessa, you could go to facebook.com BG Fitness and leave them. I just learned the other day that if, like, if you. If you don't go to facebook.com BG Fitness and you just type in BG Fitness on Facebook, it brings you to. No, it brings you, like, this fitness page, but has, like, a bunch of really offensive photos and stuff.

Oh, really?

Somebody messaged me the other day, like, asking me why I did that. I'm like, that's not my page. Yeah. Yeah.

I thought it was gonna be like the Bee Gees, like, rocking out to the Bee Gees, like, fitness stuff.

That would be cool. And then if you go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com love then.

Then that's really perverted. Yeah, no, it lets you see any of those pictures.

Share what you love. It lets you share, like, on Facebook or Twitter or whatever. Like, if you go there, it lets you share with your friends, which is really cool. And that, like, helps out.

I'm sorry. I took that to a whole wrong level.

Karma. BenGreenfieldFitness.com Love share the love. Maybe we'll put some good dirty pictures up there for you just to. Now that Jessica got you all excited.

You just mentioned it before, so I.

Bet you should go there and leave the podcast. A review in itunes. Did you know how podcasts get ranked in itunes?

I don't know.

It's three things. It is. How many downloads you got for a podcast episode? How many reviews that you got?

Positive or negative?

Yeah, positive or negative. Interestingly, how many reviews that you got? And let's see. It's downloads. It's reviews. And there's one other thing. It's, like, shares or something. Like, there's some way that you can, like, share stuff on itunes On Facebook. No, it's on itunes. It's within itunes. I forget I was studying it the other day, but so anyways, go. Leave us a review or I don't care, say something bad or good, doesn't matter. Rip us to shreds. All right, cool. Let's sign out and I'll go take my nasty vitamins and fart and make a big mess and go to bed.

Sounds about normal later. Good night. Visit BenGreenfield Fitness.com for even more cutting edge fitness, nutrition and performance advice.

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