369: 12 Potent Tips To Increase Your Energy, How To Time Your Vitamins & Supplements, Can...

In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Show, 12 Potent Tips to increase your energy, how to time your vitamins and supplements. Can testosterone be too high? Does coolsculpting work for fat loss and much more.

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Brock, you gonna die on me, dude?

I think so.

What's going on over there?

Oh, it's only my second episode back and I'm already dying. You're working me too hard.

Well, technically, it's your first official full episode back, dude.

Good call.

Yeah. For those of you who are. Who are new to the. Brock was my podcast sidekick for, like, what, how many frigging years, dude?

I was, like, almost five. We started in the fall of 2011, so, yeah, yeah.

And then he disappeared for two years, replaced by our hot Australian vegetarian sidekick, Rachel. And I think that's how she introduces herself on her business card now. Hot Australian vegetarian sidekick. But she is moving on to bigger and better things. And so Brock's back. I'm back. Really? Nobody else would step up to the plate except Brock, because I don't think anybody could put up with sharing a microphone with me and getting my virtual saliva spat all over them every week other than Brock. Possibly because Brock used to be a ballerina. For those of you who didn't know that, sad to bring that up. Sorry, Brock.

We're. We're Bro Larinas, Actually.

Bro Larinas are incredibly resilient, but hopefully you don't die during today's show. Brock.

I got my big cough. I've got a huge glass of, you know, those low, lovely effervescent vitamin C drinks. I've got one of those going here. I've also got a cup of coffee. I think I'll be okay.

That effervescent vitamin C. I. I got news for you. Some of that vitamin C actually doesn't work unless you mainline it right in the bloodstream. But we're going to talk about that on today's show.

What a coincidence.

I actually have some new research, coincidentally, on vitamin C. I wanted to tell you about the Other thing, interestingly, talking about effing up your lungs right now. My office is crazy. I've got one of these joovolites right now.

Ooh, yeah. Where is it pointing?

Even though my pants are on? I don't know.

If you're a new listener, you probably don't know this, but I actually use this thing called a jouvilite to increase my.

Well, what it does, it activates the mitochondria in the leydig cells of your testes so that they are more active for producing things like sperm cells should. I want to have copious amounts of kids and also testosterone. But it also just feels good. It's like a tanning bed. And so I've got that turned on behind me. Just bathing the back of my body in red light even though my pants are on. And they're not just any old pants. I'm wearing my air compression pants because I'm standing and they, like compress air in and out of my legs. But behind me, should that not be enough for you? Is this huge thing I built in my office a couple of days ago. It's called a live O2. Have you ever heard of this?

Oh, yeah, I've tried one. They're fantastic.

Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna get these cats on a podcast. But basically it allows you to do hyperoxia or hypoxia. So it's like this mask that you wear. And last night I did what is called their brain O2 protocol. So it's supposedly. And this is something recommended to Me by Dr. Mercola. We actually talked about it a lot when I interviewed him on the show. It super oxygenates your brain. So what it does is you do a series of sprints at hypoxia. So I wear like a fingert pulse oximeter that measures the amount of oxygen in your bloodstream. And you just sprint your off until your pulse O2 goes below 80%. As soon as it drops below 80% or you start to get dizzy. It's kind of funny. The instructions say to exercise on a piece of. I believe the way that they phrase it is.

Let me check here. I've actually got it right in front.

Of me with a safety net.

They tell you to work out on sturdy exercise equipment, not with an exercise net, but it says.

Whereas be sure you're using exercise equipment you feel secure on. But the idea is you. You go back and forth between hypoxia and hyperoxia. And when you do that, what happens is you get this huge increase in blood flow. To the brain. It's called Live O2 and I'm gonna have these guys on the podcast to talk about it. But it's crazy like, like after I did this session last night, it was about 30 minute session. By the time you warm up and you cool down and you do all the short sprints with the hypoxia and the hyperoxia. Uh, but dude, maybe that's what you need for your lungs.

I think so. I know this place on Vancouver Island. They used to go there. Are. Do you have a treadmill with yours or is it a bike? Because I did it with a bike.

I have a bicycle set up next to mine because I'm not sure the treadmill is secure.

Yeah, I'd be terrified to do it.

Instructions say it's supposed to be secure. I don't want to fall and pound open my head.

Seriously.

But that being said, I've popped open my Zevia for the day. So that is our sign to jump into today's news flashes, baby.

Let's do it.

News flashes.

Brock, general consensus is that Twitter's probably the best place to get the news flashes. What do you think?

Twitter is the best place to do every freaking thing because it's fast, it's short and well, it's full of kitty pictures. I'm going to cut.

Thought you were describing my crotch there for a second. Twitter.com BenGreenfield Best place. I put so much research out on there. And then on this part of the podcast I choose some of the most compelling and interesting things that I tweet. Even though we actually have over on the Facebook page some pretty interesting conversations and arguments and trolls that pop up and talk about some of these studies. Anyways though, we'll put links to all of this stuff if you go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com/369. Snicker snicker. Go to BenGreenfieldFitness.Com 369. We'll put all these news flashes but the first one, I don't know if you saw this. Brock. 12 in depth tactics to seriously boost your energy. Did you see this article?

I did, I did. And I was actually feeling very gratified after I read it because I'm like doing it, doing it. Boom, boom, done.

Right? Yeah. A lot of these things most people do and the fullest I'll let you all go and read yourself. But some of the things were actually pretty good. One was interesting. Drink less coffee and more Matcha. Did you see this one?

Yeah, that was the only thing I wasn't able to check off the list because I really don't. I'm not into the Matcha yet.

I still like the taste of tea in the morning. But of course Matcha has copious amounts of L theanine which slows the body's absorption of caffeine. So you get this slow release. Now a lot of people are fast coughing metabolizers and that means coffee actually winds up being better for you. You can actually get a little bit more of the antioxidants and some of the cholesterols like Cofestol and Kawaol and coffee. But if you are a fast coffee oxidizer, it does also mean that it gives you the big high followed by the big low. And for people who fall into that category, Matcha doesn't do that. So that was an interesting in depth tactic. Was the Matcha one another one that I.

What's your favorite way to have matcha by the way? Do you like the powder?

I drink it so irregularly that typically when I have it, I'm at a coffee shop where they've got like we have the best superfood matcha in the world. And that's, that's generally. Although we do have a. And funny you should ask, we have a sponsor for today's show that actually has organic Matcha green tea leaf as part of their. We might as well talk about them right now. It's that. Have you had this stuff, the Organifi superfood green food powder?

No, because I've been separated from the Ben Greenfield fitness world for so long. I'm totally out of touch.

Tell me you don't get, you don't get free stuff from our sponsors. It's got, it's got like organic wheatgrass and horseradish tree and spiraling, all sorts of kind of like fringe superfoods. But they do have. It's one of those supplements. This always annoys me. Even though it's really good, this still annoys me. It says proprietary blend on it, so it doesn't tell you how much Matcha that they put in it, but it actually does how many things? Actually I didn't think about this until now. I guess I kind of do have Matcha just about every day because I put a tablespoon of this stuff in my smoothie. So. So yeah, I guess that's one way to get it would be this, this organifi stuff. And we did not plan on this being a sponsor call out, but it just turned into one BenGreenfieldFitness.com Organifi and then the discount code is BEN. That gets you 20% off of that. And that's a pretty good source of Matcha. So you've got that going for you as one of the potent ways to boost energy. But I think some of the other things that the article went into were also quite interesting. Like micronutrients goes into how many people do not get enough micronutrients. And then it goes on to list some of the most dense forms of micronutrients. A can of sardines was in there. And that's something that I certainly travel around with a lot as a dense source of mitronutrients. It goes into some others that a lot of people overlook. Vitamin K2 is 1, retinol is another. And it even mentions how a lot of vegetables that they say are high in beta carotene, like carrots and kale, actually don't have a lot of retinol. And it kind of delves into things that are a little bit more.

Fringe. Like cod liver oil, for example, is one of the biggest ones that it goes into in the article. Collagen is another whole food. Vitamins, iodine, magnesium. When I went to the Ancestral Health Symposium a few years ago, Brock there was a presentation by a pretty intelligent biochemist and he actually analyzed a whole bunch of foods. And do you know what? It's not something I eat a lot of, but you know what he said? Pound for pound is one of the most nutrient dense foods on the face of the planet.

I'm going to say oysters, bacon, even though oysters too.

Yeah, bacon. Shellfish is really high as well, though. Shellfish is very high. Another one that he has on there that I like is listen to outrageously epic music. This was actually of the entire article. This was my favorite takeaway. And not only because he goes into some of the, you know, some of the biochemical things that happen when you listen to motivating music, but also because he links to music curated specifically to improve your motivation. Like kind of like orchestral inspiring music that you'd listen to if you kind of wanted a soundtrack fit for a battle. And what I did was I went into the article and I got all those tunes. Then I went to the website, listen to YouTube.com I turn them all into MP3s. And I actually have been listening to the music from this article while I'm working out. And it's actually, it's great music for a workout.

Nice. Yeah, I find it really interesting that we really have preconceptions on what type of music is appropriate for what type of activity. And we don't actually associate, like, getting something that has a driving beat or big guitars or something as being something appropriate for listening to before you go to sleep. But as it turns out, it really can be like, you don't have to listen to Enya just because you're trying to chill out. Like, you can actually relax yourself with a driving beat and a big guitar.

Really?

Yeah. Yeah, actually, I. I slept next door to a guy named Dr. Drew who runs the 40 Years of Zen Protocol over in Kent. Kent, Washington. And right before bed, he had this, like, what sounded like 80s hair metal playing in his hotel room. And I wanted to go over and, like, bang on the door and tell him to. To turn it down, but I couldn't stay awake long enough to actually do so. And I talked to him about it in the morning, and he said, yeah, it's just got to be the right combination of frequencies, tempo, and really just your disposition, and you can do all kinds of crazy stuff to your brain with music.

Great. Well, that's fantastic. I'm gonna listen to Five Finger Death Punch before bed tonight and let you know how that goes.

All right, let me know. Actually, I'm sure Jessa will love that.

Blame me if my deep sleep goes to crap. Also, another article was about how losing weight helps one when running. I thought this was pretty compelling. This is new research that came. Now, the interesting thing is that most research in the past, the way that they measured how much slower that you go if you are a runner and you weigh a little bit extra, was they simply add extra weight to people. Right. Like weighted vest or weighted ankle weights. They use some way to increase your weight. And what they've found in the past is that there isn't much of a significant effect on running performance when you add extra weight. But what they did in this study was they used this. This contraption. It's like this upward pulling rope attached to a system of pulleys that supposedly doesn't interfere with your actual run technique. Well, I'm not quite sure how that works. And then they had a whole bunch of runners do a 3K run trial. And what they found was pretty shocking. They found that you were faster by. And this is significant for any serious runner, about two and a half seconds per mile per pound of weight loss. Which is. Well, it should give you pause for a couple of things. First of all, not stuffing your face too much. If you're a runner, And B, even considering in your weight training protocol kind of straying away from much like hypertrophy style training and instead doing a lot more power training or like heavyweight low rep style training because it turns out there is a significant energy cost to extra weight that adds up to seconds per mile per pound. I mean that we're talking what if you weigh four extra pounds, whether it's muscle or fat, an extra 10 seconds per mile. So we're talking about the difference between running like a, whatever, like a 605 minute mile versus a 555 minute mile.

Yeah, this is really near and dear to my heart because I've actually since used to coach me, I was 160 pounds, I'm now 180 pounds. And so that's like, that's 20 pounds. So 24, 48 seconds per mile. That's. Yeah, my marathon time is gonna suck.

Yeah, but you'll look good. Be a little beefcake running your marathon.

That's the important part too. Yeah.

Up until this point, most studies, they just added weight. They didn't actually subtract weight from people. Turns out when you subtract weight from someone's normal body mass, it's a lot different than studies that have been done in the past. So I thought that was pretty interesting. It makes you think a little bit about losing weight. If you, if you want to be a fast runner or obstacle course racer or triathlete or whatever. Here's one. Speaking of vitamin C, this is what I was talking about with the vitamin C. Brock, are you familiar with this Linus Pauling guy?

Yeah, yeah, he's the guy who really overdosed with vitamin C. Got kind of huge fan run out of the medical community. And didn't he eventually die of like some horrible cancer?

I don't know if he died of a horrible cancer. That would be ironic. Pretty sure he did.

And that was the most ironic part of the story.

Yeah, I do know that back in the 70s he was into like 10 grams of Ascorbic acid that would be given intravenously for a period of time for terminal cancer patients. And they didn't seem to have a lot of studies that could replicate this effect of improving outcome in cancer patients with high intake of ascorbic acid. And replications of any of these experiments seem to fail. And many of the early experiments did use intravenous ascorbic acid. But a lot of the later experiments in which they've said that high dose vitamin C intake doesn't seem to have an effect on cancer, like killing cancer Cells, they were done with oral vitamin C, which is notoriously poorly absorbed. About the most vitamin C you can absorb, right? If you're doing like you're doing Brock and you're using like vitamin C effervescent tablets for improving immune system, you know, or if someone were to use that for cancer, for example, it's about one and a half grams, right? So 1500 milligrams is about the most you can absorb before you get gastric distress and absorption kind of decreases. So intravenous therapy is not something that has been investigated, strangely enough, up until this most recent study, which I'll link to in the show notes now. It was kind of a two part study. First of all, they found when they were messing around with ascorbic acid in the petri dish, which is called in vitro, it was found to selectively kill cancer cells. And then they gave it to mice. And especially when combined with chemotherapy, which I'm not a huge fan of, but this is what they did in the mice, it improved survival in mice. So then they took a small clinical trial in humans and they used intravenous vitamin C in humans, and they found a significant effect in survival rates with intravenous absorption of vitamin C. And the way that they theorize that this happens is that ascorbic acid selectively kills cancer cells by causing the cancer cell to increase production of hydrogen peroxide and what are called free radicals, oxygen based free radicals. So you get a whole bunch of vitamin C, you produce a bunch of these oxygen based free radicals, you produce a bunch of hydrogen peroxide. And what that does is it eventually kills cancer cells by augmenting the formation of free radicals specifically, because what ascorbic acid or vitamin C does is it recycles iron. And iron is what generates free radicals and generates even more hydrogen peroxide to kill cancer cells, by the way. It's also why having levels of iron that are too high or having levels of oxygen exposure that are too high for too long, you get to the point where you get this law of diminishing return free radicals. And if you don't have cancer, you wind up just creating a lot of metabolic damage. But if you do have cancer, it appears that figuring out a way to trigger more iron intake and more hydrogen peroxide production in that cancer cell can be a good thing. And based on these latest studies, intravenous absorption or intravenous intake of vitamin C, and in this case they were doing right around 15 to 20 grams of vitamin C, appears to have a significant impact in the ability to Be able to help the body to recycle iron, which fuels the production of free radicals, which promotes hydrogen peroxide production, which accelerates the rate at which a cancer cell can die. So this is kind of a, you know, not a lot of studies come out that are just like, hey, this kills cancer. But this is a new study that shows that high intake of intravenous vitamin C does in fact do that.

Wow. And that's one hell of a complicated procedure there too, that they managed to nail down. It's not just a one to one correlation. It's actually creating something that creates something that creates something that kills cancer. That's. That's pretty cool.

Yeah. I discovered this study in this journal that I read. I read a journal put out by the. You know. Are you familiar with the website Examine?

Yeah, yeah, I love that website.

Yeah. And a lot of people aren't aware, but they have a paid research digest. We actually have like an affiliate account with them. You go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com.

That stands for Examine Research Digest, and you get this Examine Research Digest. But I discovered this study. It's really compelling. Now, I personally, I haven't talked about this much on the podcast, but once a week I do an iv. Once a week I do a Myers cocktail. I actually did one this morning and I have a doctor, I'm gonna interview him on the show soon. He sends me up an IV. It's a push IV, which means it takes me 60 seconds to administer. I put on a tourniquet, I find a vein, and I stick myself with a butterfly needle and I do a push IV for 60 seconds. And you feel like Superman for like two or three days. If you've been traveling a lot or you jet lagged, you feel amazing. It's got vitamin C in it. It's got a whole bunch of other vitamins in it. It doesn't have as much vitamin C as they used in this study, but there are ways that one can get vitamin C into the system and a lot of vitamin C without necessarily getting all the gut distress and poopy pants that comes with taking an ascorbic acid in very high doses orally. I don't take as much as they use in this cancer study, frankly, because you get to the point where you create too many free radicals and too much hydrogen peroxide. But nonetheless, if I had cancer or I knew someone who had it, I would certainly consider something like high dose intravenous vitamin C based on this study.

And by the way, I looked it up, Linus Pauling died of cancer of prostate cancer. But he was 93, so it's not. That's not so surprising.

That's just imagine how much longer he.

Would have lived if only he'd followed his own protocol. Come on, Linus, one more.

I want to dive into high fructose corn syrup. Are you familiar with this in Canada? Brock, do you guys have this stuff in Canada?

We do.

Not to the extent that you guys do, but we've. It's, it's infiltrated our border. Yeah.

Okay, well, new on the streets, high fructose corn syrup has been quietly deceitfully renamed. So what I mean by that is that it's really caught in a lot of flak. HFCS or high fructose corn syrup. But they've been able to rename it natural sweetener. Very similar to the way that like beaver butt extract that you're gonna say.

Like unicorn tears or something. Something delightful.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Monk sweat. No. High fructose corn syrup. The front of the box of the new general meals, Vanilla Chex, clearly states that the product contains no high fructose corn syrup. But then you turn it over and you read the ingredient list and they have this new isolated fructose, they call it, it's also known as HFCS90. In white lab coat donning cocktail party speak, that means it's 90% pure fructose. Way different than something natural like, say, honey, for example. I recently wrote a big article about how I am a fan of honey. Right? Honey is about half glucose and half fructose with a whole bunch of extra antioxidants and enzymes and probiotics and prebiotics in it. This is HFCS 90 is just 90% fructose. Not anything like you would find in nature or in honey. And they're now adding it to foods and allowing the foods to declare themselves to be high fructose corn syrup free. And when you're seeing fructose on the label of many of these foods. Now, now that's not natural. Like, you know, 50% fructose glucose. It's not honey. It's not even like a natural fruit based sweetener. It's just pure, chemically made, almost pure fructose. So FYI, those bastards at the Corn Refiners association have been able to sneak in a sneaky, sneaky name change. So consumer of Chex cereal, beware.

That's some serious house of cards crap right there. Seriously, I can see Kevin Spacey like steepling his fingers going, yeah, exactly.

And I, I have to use this as the opportunity to mention that one of the reasons that I wrote that big article that I recently wrote about how natural sweeteners can be comprised of things like beaver butt extract and how inulin can be comprised of GMO corn and how they're sneaking all the of these things into into so called health foods was part of an article that I wrote on this brand new bar that I spent the past two years designing. If you have been living under a rock and haven't yet heard about it, it's Spanish almonds and white chia seeds and sesame seeds and cacao nibs, dark cacao, cacao butter, got coconut flakes. All pure organic, gluten free, soy free. It's got the collagen content of an entire cup's worth of bone broth. It's called Nature Bite and that's available now on a huge sale for part of our launch week over@BenGreenfieldFitness.com NatureByte have you tried it yet, Brock?

I haven't. No one has sent me any hints. Hints?

I need to get you a bar. I'm heading down to Malibu later on this afternoon with a whole backpack full of bars to give it all my friends down there. It's like the tastiest bar, the most salty, chocolatey, coconutty goodness bar on the face of the planet with none of the quietly deceitfully renamed high fructose corn syrup in it. So check that out folks. BenGreenfieldFitness.com Nature Bite.

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I have. And I'm dying to give it a try myself because I, I have a secret hope that I'm actually in my telomeres younger than you.

Yeah, well, that could be likely. You measure your telomeres and these are the protective DNA caps on the ends of your chromosomes that tend to shorten with with age. But if you do the right things, you can actually cause them to not shorten quite as quickly. You can defy aging. And what this company does, tele years is with a tiny, tiny bit of blood, like a blood spot. You send in your blood spot to this company, they analyze your telomeres and then they keep track of what's called your not your chronological age, but your biological age. I got this test done. I interviewed them on my podcast. It's actually a very cool test. I'm going to try to repeat it about once every four months to see if I'm actually able to reverse aging, which I know sounds cheesy and cliche, but I actually have a goal to, by the time I'm 40, have a biological age of 25. That's my goal. And so I'm going to be accomplishing that by kind of dialing back on the endurance exercise. And I'm doing these vitamin cocktail IVs now and I'm going to do a lot more of this anti aging tea that I drink called Pau d' Yarco bark tea. And I'm doing this hyperoxy in my office now. I'm doing all these little things just because I kind of dig and enjoy diving into the science and engaging in legal better living through science. And now I can actually track it with this company, Telliers, to see if it's actually causing change or whether it's just all in my head.

Are you going to inject yourself with the blood of younger individuals?

That is something that I have considered doing. You can get access to placental based cells and inject. And that's, that's actually something that's on my radar, I'm not gonna lie. And I'm going down to Florida in a few months to, to do a stem cell injection for that very reason. So anyways, though, more on that later.

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Yeah, I haven't seen those in a long time.

So there's no plastics. I mean even the freaking toothpaste tube they thought about. It's really cool. It looks great. It feels awesome because you get to squeeze out of the metal toothpaste like they did back in the 70s or whatever. So you feel like you're in Jackie Brown the movie. At least that's what I think when I'm brushing my teeth. Yeah, exactly. And you get 10% off of this stuff or anything from Onnit. But I recommend their MCT Oil toothpaste. The delicious cacao mint flavor is my favorite. You go to BenGreenfieldFitness.comonnit that's BenGreenfieldFitness.comOnnit that automatically gives you 10% off your own bentonite clay MCT oil toothpaste. Do not blend it with coffee. I repeat, do not blend with coffee.

So why on earth would you want to have MCT oil on your teeth? Is it kind of like a oil pulling substitute kind of idea?

I have no clue why you would want medium chain triglycerides on your teeth.

Oh, damn it.

That's actually something I'm scratching my head about. I'm thinking that's marketing. But I do know that the bentonite clay in there has a significant tooth whitening effect. I really and honestly, like I couldn't tell you. Now the folks that on it are going to hate us, but I really couldn't tell you. Aside from lubing your teeth, allowing the brush to glide across your teeth and gum smoothly, not abrasively shooting across your. I can think of no other reason to put medium chain triglyceride and toothpaste. But everything else I understand.

Okay, well they should, they should write to us and, and let us know or put a comment in the, in the show notes or something. So we know and can't. Don't sound like idiots in the future.

Yeah, that's right. Well, knowing Aubrey Marcus, the owner of the company, it's probably because he wanted to be able to use it as a backup sex lube or something like that.

Bless his. Bless his heart. Well, you know, that's how he got his start in the industry. Was he used to.

Is he a porn star?

Used to be in the, like the portable. What are those portable vagina pocket things that you can carry around, you know.

Oh, Fleshlight.

Yeah, yeah. He was like the inventor of that or something like that. Anyways, though, we digress.

You know, that was the first company to ever sponsor a podcast. Yeah, they were groundbreaking in so many ways.

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Yeah, yeah. It's onerous. Onerous to say the least.

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Or you can go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com 369 and what we have there are all sorts of places. So just, just a quick rundown for you. I'll be in Boise racing the Boise Spartan June 23rd through 25th. So if you're going to be in Boise, give us a shout out in the comments section@bengreenfieldfitness.com 369Me and my wife and boys are all going to do the full Spartan race together. It'll be my 9 year old boy's first foray into a full Spartan event.

Oh that's so cool.

Yeah, we're going to help them carry the buckets and go over the walls and everything. And then Palmerton, Pennsylvania I'll be racing on July 8th, Spartan over there. After which I'll be traveling to New York to speak in New York on Tuesday night, July 11th. That Chef David Boulay's Chef and the Doctor series. Apparently he thinks I'm a doctor. So I'll be speaking or chef, definitely neither. And then I will also be racing in Asheville, North Carolina at the Spartan Race there followed by the West Virginia Spartan. I will then be speaking in Iceland. Great Longevity event in Iceland. For anybody who wants to go to Iceland we have have links for tickets in the show notes@bengreenfieldfitness.com 369@ the Brace Yourself who Wants to Live Forever conference. Who wants to Live Forever Rey Shavik, however you pronounce that. Is that how pronouncing it?

Reykjavik.

Reykjavik, Iceland. I was close. And then I'll also be Speaking in Helsinki October 13th through 15th at what I consider to be one of the best biohacking events on the face of the planet in Helsinki, Finland. The Biohacker Summit.

Isn't that pronounced Helsinki?

Helsinki XPT Experience in Kauai, Hawaii. Me and Kelly Starrett, Laird Hamilton and Brian McKenzie and Gabby Reese are going to be teaching you underwater workouts and pool training and all sorts of fantastic shiznat over there in Kauai, Hawaii December 7th through the 9th and then the year will culminate December 17th through the 23rd. Come to Panama for an amazing yoga retreat come called Runga there with me and just about everything that I just mentioned. I've got discounts, I've got ticket links, I've got all the information for just go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com 369 and it's all there. And you can come join me at any of those hotspots or all of them if you feel like knocking off. Like I'll be Iceland, Kauai, Finland and beyond in 2017. One big party baby.

Listener. Q and A.

Hi Bill, you said in your article that taking multivitamins like vitamins, B12 and all the vitamin C, it's better with meals. Do you have like a scientific paper that agree with this information or from where you get this information? Because I need this to know about the vitamins, to take it with me. So if you have like any articles that talk about is the best way to take the multivitamins with means like the B12, we have to take it on empty stomach. So I would be appreciated if you send me the articles to my emails. Thank you.

When I saw this question come through, I was tempted to not delve into it because I know that you've got a big infographic about this. You've written a big article about it in the past. But I was really intrigued by the, the idea that, that we didn't really explain what the, what the reasoning is. Like, why do you need to take some with food? What is the mechanism that, that defines whether you should be taking it with food or not?

Yeah, well, it kind of depends because now that we've talked about IVs and opened up that can of worms, it does kind of depend if we're talking about straight up intravenous absorption, if we're talking about sublingual absorption in the mouth or if we're talking about patches, you know, like delivery of melatonin through a patch or, you know, another popular nootropic supplement, nicotine through a patch or, you know, vitamin C through an IV or vitamin D through an iv. Glutathione injections are quite popular nowadays. You inject them just like testosterone into your butt cheek. A lot of those things that bypass digestion, that don't go through the liver or go through the gut, sky's the limit. Do it whenever you want, baby on an airplane, at the park, while you're in a movie. But aside from that, if you're going to consume supplements in the way that the average normal person actually takes supplements, the idea is that, you know, let's take.

Well, let's take probiotics, for example. Right?

Okay.

When you take probiotics with food, the digestive enzymes produced when you consume a meal and the stomach acid produced when you Take a meal, interfere with the absorption and the efficacy of the probiotic.

So a probiotic, it's not the food, it's the digestive stuff that kicks into gear when food's present.

Exactly. Or in the case of vitamin B or vitamin C, when you take those on an empty stomach, they can simply cause nausea. And part of that is due to the increase in stomach acidity. And so vitamin B and vitamin C should be taken in the presence of food. And it's not because the food increases the absorption, because it doesn't. These are water soluble vitamins that get absorbed just fine. You know, all your vitamin B complex and your vitamin C complex. Water soluble vitamins. The reason that you take those with food is because they can produce nausea if you take them without food. But if you don't get nausea, you don't need to take them with food because the only reason that you are recommended to not take them on an empty stomach is because of the nausea that they can create. Now, even when you look at B vitamins, for example, B vitamins help to convert many food stuff into ATP and into usable energy. And so in an ideal scenario, you actually would, would take them just prior to a meal if you were going to take them or with a meal. And again, it's not because the meal increases the absorption, it's because the vitamin B can actually help with the conversion of that meal into ATP. And then there are some things that actually do get absorbed better when you take them on an empty stomach. Iron is a perfect example. Not only is iron best absorbed on an empty stomach, but it also should be taken away from supplements and that inhibit the absorption of iron, particularly calcium and also vitamin E. Both of those can decrease the absorption of iron. And so you would want to take them, the iron, not only on empty stomach, but at a different time than calcium and at a different time than vitamin E. When you look at something like calcium, well, calcium is primarily based on circadian rhythms utilized by your body in the evening. It's also kind of like magnesium is a natural muscle relaxant. And because low levels of calcium are associated with disturbed sleep patterns, including for those of you who analyze your sleep, if you have low deep sleep, right. Low REM sleep phases, well, lack of calcium can be a reason for that, as can a lack of magnesium. And because calcium works hand in hand with magnesium and also incidentally, vitamin D, taking all of those before bed can be beneficial for getting a good night's sleep. And so part of it comes down to timing and the actual effect that you are looking for when you're taking these vitamins. Now I will link to a pretty comprehensive infographic if you go to the show notes@bengreenfieldfitness.com 369 but some of the key takeaways from that should you not have access to the Internet or you just want to get the podcast version?

Vitamin C, like I mentioned earlier, if you're taking it orally, it is only absorbed to a maximum intake of about one and a half grams. And so if you're using like a high dose vitamin C to help out with the immune system, in which case I recommend 5 to 6 grams a day, you would split that up throughout the day in like smaller 1 to 2 gram portions. Split up all throughout the day. Right? So like three times a day you'd take vitamin C iron in the morning on an empty stomach without like caffeine and tannins and calcium and vitamin E and things that can decrease iron absorption would be the best time of day to take iron. Vitamin B complex because vitamin B is so important for the conversion of food to energy, taking vitamin B first thing in the morning, preferably with breakfast, you avoid some of the nausea effect is a good time to take your vitamin B. Some of the fat soluble vitamins are best absorbed in the presence of dietary fats like nuts or yogurts or avocados. So if you're taking a vitamin E for example, or a vitamin A, take them with a fat soluble meal. Now with vitamin D things are a little bit different and I think we have a question about vitamin D later, later on. So perhaps we'll delve into that and touch on that in a little bit.

Don't give away the farm yet.

Right. Okay, so a few others, Coenzyme Q10, very popular supplement. Any of these things like CoQ10PQQ, a lot of these antioxidants, those are better absorbed, very similar to a fat soluble vitamin when dietary fats are present. So you would take those along with like a big breakfast or a big lunch or a big dinner rather than taking those on on an empty stomach. So you would take those type of things with fats.

I took mine on an empty stomach this morning. That's why I'm saying crap.

That's why you're sick. Exactly. That's why you're going to die.

Damn it.

You take zinc, zinc with food because zinc can be best absorbed when you take it with food, especially with protein rich foods, which is interesting because you'll find zinc in its natural format in a Lot of protein rich foods in nature.

Now another one that can be helpful when taken with food and with protein rich foods is iodine. Right. So your zincs and your iodines are best taken with food, with a meal. Same thing for anything oily and fatty. Vitamin K, best taken with a meal. Fish oil, best taken with a meal. All right, so those are some of the ones that you should take with a meal. The ones that you would take on an empty stomach. Like I mentioned, probiotics would be one that would be best taken on an empty stomach. Colostrum, I'm a fan of taking that on an empty stomach. Iron on an empty stomach is a little bit better. And then your fat soluble vitamins with the meal, your antioxidants with a meal, your zinc and iodine with a meal, especially like a protein rich meal. But what I will do is I will put a whole list of kind of like best practices for timing of supplements in the show notes so that you can kind of kind of wrap your head around some of these things in a visual format. But that's ultimately if you weren't going to do like, like an intravenous absorption or a patch or something like that, which in many cases can be a pretty good way to take these things. If you don't feel them much when you take a vitamin or a supplement, that will help out quite a bit. And then the final thing I would throw out there is I'll put a bigger list in the show notes and then also know that like if you don't feel your vitamins, if you don't, you know, and, and if you, if, if you're taking, you know, taking things and you just don't notice a difference at all in many cases. Do you know what that can indicate.

Brock, if you're not feeling it? No, I, I assume that you don't feel most vitamins.

No, you should, you should have a surge of energy after taking like a multivitamin complex or after taking, you know, many cases like, like, you know, magnesium or calcium, you should feel relaxed or you know, melatonin, you should feel relaxed and fat soluble and water soluble vitamins. You should feel an energy boost a lot of times. Leaky gut. People with leaky gut issues and an inflamed gut, they don't absorb their vitamins very well. And so in many cases you may want to, if you're healing your gut up, look into something like you know, a weekly intravenous administration of a full vitamin complex or using for example, patches or sublingual Delivery rather than oral delivery. So something to think about? Definitely. It gets a little bit more complex and just like kind of popping a pill every day, you know, as convenient as that might seem, there's more to consider than that. So check out some of the resources that I'll put in the show notes when it comes to timing, and I'll tell you the things you should take before meals, the things you should take after meals, and the things you should take between meals.

And Ahmed made sure to ask if you had some scientific studies that backed this stuff up. Up the infographic that you're linking to. You've got the references there, right?

Exactly.

Yep.

Check out the references in the infographics so that Ahmed can go impress all of his friends at his cocktail party.

Perfect.

Hey, Ben, I'm curious what you think about vitamin D supplementation more specifically? Just the timing. There's some sleep aids out that have vitamin D in there. I'm just curious if you have any thoughts that it can cause circadian dysregulation. Obviously, vitamin D is a hormone and not just a vitamin.

But. Yeah, I'm wondering if it can affect the sleep. I'm not seeing any studies. I'm wondering if you're familiar with anything saying that it's best to take vitamin D before bed. Thanks.

I found this one really interesting because sort of logically, you expose your body to sunlight and your body produces vitamin D. So you'd think that this would be a morning time kind of thing or mid morning kind of, kind of a supplement to take. Is that correct? Well, why would you want it for sleep then?

They actually. They studied this. They studied vitamin D and sleep. And it was a super interesting study. So it was in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, which is not a journal about music.

What?

Surprisingly enough, yeah. It's actually about circadian rhythms. Now what they looked into in this study was your circadian rhythm.

That's the circadian rhythm right there.

That's right.

Your 24 hour clock and what they look.

Did you say clock clock?

Yes, your 24 hour clock. Okay, so there's this concept of a zeitgeber. You ever heard of it? Not the thing they clean the hockey rinks with the ice with.

I thought that was in a Stephen King book somewhere.

It's any external or environmental cue that entrains your biological rhythms to the Earth's 24 hour light, dark cycle.

And what's the word again?

It could be a zeitgeber.

Zeitgeber?

Zeitgeber. It means time giver in German Zeitgeber. So we know that sun plays a major role as a zeitgeber in regulating the circadian rhythm. It's why people who are night shift workers a lot of times have really abnormal sleep schedules and they have some health issues because they don't have a properly injured entrained circadian rhythm. And the hypothesis in this research was that vitamin D might be one of the things that mediates the effect of sunlight on biological rhythms, because of course, sunlight helps you to create vitamin D. So to test this, what they did was they took a bunch of stem cells from fat tissue, my favorite, and they put some of those cells into what's called a serum shocked culture without vitamin D, or in this case what they call calcitriol, which is basically vitamin D. It exerts its effects by binding to the vitamin D receptor. And then they took some of the stem cells and put them into a culture that had calcitriol in it. And then they took another culture that just had the calcitriol without the stem cells in it. And then they had a culture without any cells or calcitriol, more or less. What they found was that the cultures, the stem cell cultures without the calcitriol and with the calcitriol, what they found was there was an increase in the gene expression in these groups. But the only group that appeared to have a significant increase in the gene expression associated with circadian rhythm regulation was the group in which the stem cells were bathed in dihydroxy vitamin D3 or calcitriol. And so what this means was that vitamin D appears to synchronize the cells. It appears to be one of the best ways from a vitamin standpoint to maintain circadian rhythms in the body. And so this would be a reason to, speaking of timing of supplements and vitamins, take your vitamin D with something like dinner. If you were going to take vitamin D, it appears that not only is it best absorbed with a meal because it's one of those fat soluble vitamins, but you can take it in the evening to assist with circadian regulation. Now, the only other interesting thing to bear in mind is that even though I'm a fan of taking it with fat, and even though, based on this research, I'm a fan of including it, and the way that I take my vitamin D, by the way, is in this little powder supplement in the evening. It's called Sleep Cocktail. It's made by this Navy SEAL who wanted to help a whole bunch of Navy seals get to sleep. And so he combines vitamin D with omega fatty acids with microdoses of melatonin.

Oh, is that Doc Parsley's thing?

Yeah, it's got a little bit of an inhibitory neurotransmitter called gamma aminobutyric acid in it. But you take this in the evening, like just a little bit after dinner and before you go to bed. Now, the only exception to this is that there's a little bit of research done over in Toronto at the University of Toronto in which they gave some people 1500 international units of vitamin D once a day. And they gave other people over 10,000 international units of vitamin D once a week. And they gave other people almost 50,000 international units of vitamin D. That's a spicy meatball. Once a month. That's a spicy vitamin D meatball. And they found that there wasn't a difference in the blood levels of vitamin D among all these people. Meaning that you could megadose with vitamin D once a month and still keep your vitamin D levels relatively high. But they did not look at sleep or circadian rhythm in these people. All they looked at was blood vitamin D levels. So if you're going after the circadian rhythm regulating effects of vitamin D, take your vitamin D in the evening with a meal or use one of these, like nighttime supplements that has vitamin D in it. And that's going to be the best way to get your vitamin D, in my opinion, would be in the evening with some other fats if you want to take advantage of the circadian rhythm regulating effects of vitamin D. So there you have it.

Very interesting. And yet again, I have screwed something else up. I've been taking my vitamin D in the morning.

That is why you're still so sick.

Hi, Ben. Phil from Massachusetts, longtime listener. I'm 71 years old, in excellent health, no meds, exercise just about every day. Been on the ketogenic diet for about three years. Had my testosterone checked about a year ago, it was around 800. I bought the juvie as you suggested, used it for a few months, had my testosterone checked. About a year later, it was over a thousand, which, as you know, is above normal limits. Just wondering if there's anything I need to be concerned about. I realize you're not a doctor. Not looking for medical advice, just a method.

I feel so bad for Phil. Phil, we feel so bad for you that your testosterone is so naturally high.

And your nuts are. Are probably nice and warm.

Yeah. And you've got that. Oh, that reminds me. I should reach back behind me and turn this joov light off. It's been on for like the past hour while we're podcasting. I don't want my testosterone levels to be on. It's been on. Bathing myself in light. Yeah, it feels really good, though.

Hot nuts coming through.

Relaxing. Hot nuts anyways, though. So here's the deal with testosterone, and I actually recently interviewed this guy named Dr. Gaines, Dr. Dick Gaines, about testosterone.

Seriously, he's got it. That's made up.

He's the guy that does the acoustic sound wave therapy for your nuts down in Florida. But he also does, like, testosterone therapies and stuff. And I asked him a bunch of questions about testosterone and I'll release that episode soon. But ultimately, the average adult male, the level of total testosterone varies widely. It's like 270 all the way up to 1070. It's a vast range. So this is all based on genetics and activity and a whole bunch of other factors. But let's say that you're not supplementing with testosterone. So your high testosterone is not a result of you, like, you know, for example, shutting down the ability of your pituitary glands to cause your gonads to release luteinizing hormone, which can happen if you take a whole bunch of testosterone and instead it's just a natural effect of your natural testosterone production. Well, in this case, you're likely asymptomatic, right? So high testosterone side effects would be insomnia, raging appetite, a lot of times sore muscles, shrunken balls, a lower sperm count, a lower ejaculate volume.

And this is from here, high testosterone.

This would be from high testosterone and hair loss because the high testosterone can get converted into dht, which can cause hair loss. And in addition to that, extremely high levels of unnatural testosterone in the blood could contribute to increased risk for a myocardial infarction, which is a form of a heart attack, and the development of gynecomastia or increased breast tissue because of the aromatization of that testosterone into estrogens. That's why you should never, ever be on any kind of testosterone supplement without regular check ins on your blood levels of testosterone to make sure that it's not getting too high. However, there are no studies that I could find anywhere in which there were any health issues linked with excess testosterone when that excess testosterone was not caused via exogenous supplementation with testosterone. Period. Not an issue at all. The only people that appear to need to worry about excess testosterone are those getting it from the use of anabolic steroids. That's it. It's that simple and even that's pretty complex because as I'll be discussing in that podcast I released with Dr. Gaines, if you're monitoring yourself for normal blood values, if you're keeping your estrogen levels low via the use of some kind of an aromatase inhibitor, if you are ensuring that you're taking a minimal amount of testosterone along with things like HCG or Clomid, which allows your luteinizing hormones to naturally produce their own testosterone, rather than you just dumping a bunch of exogenous testosterone on the hatch. And what I'm doing, getting at here is if you're going to use exogenous testosterone, especially if you're competing, or, I'm sorry, if you're not competing in like a USADA or a WADA sanctioned sport in which this would be illegal and unethical, you would still want to monitor your blood values of testosterone. You'd want to monitor your values of dht, you'd want to monitor your values of estrogens and make sure that you're not getting the excess testosterone. But in the absence of that, there appears to be no issues at all with naturally high testosterone brought on by anything from a juv lite to regular sex to hanging out with lovely ladies, to anything else that appears to naturally increase our testosterone levels. Lifting heavy weights, printing zinc, creatine, power, posing any of these things don't seem to cause any deleterious effects. The only reason that there would be deleterious effects would be the administration of exogenous testosterone. And even, even that, when done properly under the care of a physician, doesn't appear to carry with it any of these risks that come with anabolic steroids. So, frankly.

I would own it, Phil. I wouldn't worry about it too much. I wouldn't be concerned about it. I'm not a doc. Don't take this as medical advice, but if you're not using testosterone exogenously, I wouldn't worry about it. Congratulations that your little juv light protocol appears to have boosted up over for 200 points. I've seen that happen a lot of folks. I frankly use this thing all the time. I love it. So, yeah, we'll even put a link to the joov light in the show notes for those of you who want to bathe your own balls in. In red light or shining on yourself.

I really. They got to come up with a cheaper version.

Well, I'm going to interview Dr. Mercola again pretty soon because he has some ideas about cheaper versions that he swears by. So we'll See? But in the meantime, I'm digging this juv. Light. So there you have it. That's my light, and I'm sticking to it.

I was reading about cold induced thermogenesis for sculpting the body. Can I use just ice on problem areas to burn fat?

So I have this great vision in my head of Tiana sitting there with an ice cube wrapped in a cloth or something, and she's rubbing it on her love handles using one of those.

What are those spikes, Those spiky handles that you hold onto, like giant ice blocks with. Oh, yeah, I'm talking about. Yeah, she's got one of those and she's just, like, rubbing it all over her body. Or maybe she's. She's hired, like, a pool boy to just rub her down with ice.

Oh, I like that. That's a. Yeah, well, I mean, that's my next.

Let's face it. I have a whole article called how to Burn Fat with Cold. The evidence is undeniable that you can use cold thermogenesis. You can use, you know, vests like the cool fat burner vest, or cold showers or cold soaks. And all of these increase nitric oxide production. They convert white adipose tissue into metabolically active brown fat. They're one of the few ways to convert fat cells into a form of metabolically active tissue rather than just, you know, shrinking said fat cell through, like, caloric restriction. But the question is, can you actually, like, spot score with the use of ice? Now, there is, I don't know if you've heard of this before, Brock, this fancy fat loss surgery process called coolsculpting. Have you heard of this?

I have. Well, I've seen posters around town for it, very oddly. Yeah, they seem to be old school with their advertising.

Yeah, it's an icy cold surgical tool. And it's an alternative to liposuction. And it uses a tissue cooling applicator. And that's literally what it sounds like. Like, they like, let's say you want to lower body fat on your right butt ch. Cheek, right? And I'm your cool sculptor master, so I'm gonna take your right butt cheek. Just imagine this. Brock, I've got your right butt cheek.

I'm actually enacting it right now.

I'm gonna hold it between two cooling panels, right? It's gonna take all the heat out of that area, Right. It's theoretically gonna cause fat cell apoptosis or fat cell death and fat cell loss, like loss of the actual subcutaneous fat. And then There's a vacuum suction that's set up so there's not actual damage caused to the skin. So you get the loss of subcutaneous fat without skin burns and without frostbite and without actually having to get invasive liposuction. That is the theoretical idea is you are killing fat cells with cryosurgery with cold.

Sounds fantastic.

You could theoretically do something kind of like this even though there'd be no vacuum. So I'm not sure it work without the vacuum application. If you were to just say like rub ice all over an area and do like a poor man's version of this.

I've got a vacuum, I can just plug my vacuum cleaner in and stick that in my butt.

If it's good, plug your vacuum cleaner on and figure out a way to put an ice applicator on.

Done.

But they did a study back in 2008 on pigs on black Yucatan pigs and they found that a 10 minute treatment of this fat based cold exposure caused a significantly lower lipid area under the skin and a loss of adipose tissue, showing a localized loss of subcutaneous fat through direct cooling on the surface of the skin. But again, they used this special device that was a combination of a vacuum cleaner and ice and not just ice. So there's that study that shows that it may be caused. However, in my opinion, what you may instead want to try rather than ice would be something like they make cold thermogenesis gear like vests that you can wear and waist pads that you can wear that just holds this stuff up against your body without causing the potential for say like skin burns or frostbite. And it cools the area, causes a localized cooling sensation. But the cool thing about these is it's like a full body cooling sensation. So you get the increase in adiponectin and irisin and a lot of these other hormones responsible for both increasing metabolism and also the conversion of the white adipose tissue into the brown fat. So you could do it. I'll put a link in the show notes to this article, A guest post on my website written by this guy who tested his metabolism and his calorie burn at the University of California, San Diego and showed over a 300% increase in metabolic calorie burning weight when using this type of gear. Granted he got to the point where he was like teeth chattering, shivering, but he got a significant loss in fat. I just haven't seen any evidence that rubbing ice over an area is going to cause a direct loss of fat. I would imagine you'd probably get a frostbite before something like that would take effect. I would consider more of a full body cooling, cold showers, cold soaks, you know, like cool fat burner vests, things like that, rather than something like this. Unless you're going to opt for doing like the full on cool sculpting, which as dumb as it sounds, does actually seem to work. If you're a black Yucatan pig.

Which I am, and I have a whole article on this, I will link to it in the show notes. I did an article on the pigs. Go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com 369 now, interestingly enough, that's an article on the Quick and Dirty Tips website. It's one of my my Get Fit Guy articles. And for those of you who are fans of my other podcast, the Get Fit Guy podcast, I should throw this out there. You may have a little surprise coming on that podcast. I'm not going to totally spill the beans for you, but if you happen to subscribe to that podcast, you might be in for a shock in about two weeks. Possibly a pleasant shock depending on who you are and how much you like ballerinas, how you feel about Canadians and how you feel about Canadians. But for those of you who are Get Fit Guy listeners, or even if you're not a listener but you want to become one.

That's what I was going to say.

Go to itunes and do a search for the Get Fit Guy. It's a very brief 5 to 10 minute weekly podcast on general fitness concepts. There's a like, like I've been recording literally millions of downloads worth of episodes since 2010 over there. But they're very quick check ins on like trendy fitness topics like you know, cooling the hell out of black Yucatan pigs to see if they lose weight so that they can fit into their swimsuits for swimsuit season.

And that's so cute.

Check that out because we've got a little surprise coming down the pipeline on that show.

The most shocking episode ever.

Shocking. Speaking of surprises coming down the pipeline, should we send someone a surprise? Brock?

Oh yeah.

Geez.

Okay.

Yeah, let's do it. So here's the deal. If you leave this show a review on itunes, especially if you leave it a five star review and you say something nice and we read your review on the show as we're about to do, if you email gear @Greenfield Fitness Systems.com that's gear. Greenfield Fitness Systems.com we will send you a surprise gift box full of a bunch of special things Hand picked by yours truly. And we actually have a review left in iTunes from Louisaga 97. So if you hear this review entitled, yeah, it's Pretty good, then email us, tell us your t shirt size. Email gearreenfeldfitness Systems. We'll send you something. And if you're listening in. What are you waiting for? Head over to itunes, leave your review, and here is this week's review of the week. Take it away, Brock.

Okay, I'm. I'm gonna try not to cough my head off during this. When I get my fix of the Ben Greenfield podcast show, it makes me feel like God. Like the God or a God, I wonder.

I. I don't want to be too blasphemous, but let's just go. Well, he's got it capitalized God.

That's true.

Yeah. What? Yeah, I guess we'll just go with God and offend every religious person out there. Go ahead.

There you go. I intend to. After every dose, or I intend to. After every dose, I urge to go around what it says.

Let me take this away for you, Sick Boy. I intend to. After every dose, I urge to go around to my inferior acquaintances and dispense unwanted holy water of facts on them. This dude has got to be foreign. We love foreign people. No offense.

Yeah, nothing wrong. I probably don't speak your language as well as as you do either.

After I get all of that out of my system, it's proven unhealthy to keep knowledge to yourself. I then figure out if I can actually apply it to myself. I came up with a measure of whether I'm capable of applying my newfound knowledge to my day to day life. Here. Number one. Number one. Ooh, this is. These are tips. How expensive is the contraption they just talked about? Cool fat sculpting device. Thousands. 2. How far out of my way currently do I have to go? Juve light on your balls? No farther than your bedroom, hopefully. Number three.

In your own home, do the first.

Two outweigh the benefits?

No, definitely not. Surgeon holding your butt cheek between a cooling pad or shining light on your balls. Definitely. The pros outweigh the cons. Do I really care? Maybe. I think that. I think that question is irrelevant and unnecessary. I would just stick with the three steps. After all, that is out of my system as well. I'm either better off with all this unnecessary wealth of knowledge.

Sorry.

Bless you. Or in the case I do apply it, I'm better off with all this sort of but not really necessary wealth of knowledge. Either way, the high fades and I wait until my next fix. Well, English as a second language. Louisa ka97 maybe it was just being.

Extra fancy and we're not able to like. Like he was being Shakespearean or something.

Might be a sophisticated English major and we're just way behind.

He's laughing at us now.

Either way, we're sending you a bunch of free Luisaga 97 so enjoy that.

Are we allowed to swear on the podcast now? Is this.

No. Every time. Every time I say it gets beeped out. See?

Holy earmuffs, kids. Anyways, I think that's a perfect way to end today's show. So all of the show notes and everything you'd ever want, from the infographic on how to time your vitamins and supplements to the fascinating article on 12 potent tips to increase your energy over a 9,000 word article that's well worth reading, to the study on vitamin C for cancer, a whole lot more, you simply go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com 369 that's BenGreenfieldFitness.Com 369 and you'll get it all there. So until next time. And I should say welcome back, Brock.

Thanks. I'll. I'll try to get rid of this cold before the next episode, I promise.

Do that. And until next time, thank you everyone for listening in. And have a healthy week.

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