Healthy Travel Tips

Okay, we're live. Jump, jump, jump. Hey, we're packing for Spain. The kids aren't here, which is awesome.

Getting a lot done. Okay, so we've got most of our stuff kind of ready to go, but we haven't actually put stuff into bags because we want to show you everything that we're taking along. And if you have questions, if you're watching this via the ustream broadcast, if you log into ustream, you might need your free ustream username and password. You can type questions in the Q and A box there. I can see any questions that you have here on my phone, in the chat function. And everything that we show you, we'll try and put links to and there will be notes that go along with this video so you don't have to furiously write. What I'm going to do is just publish underneath where this video comes out. I'll just publish lists of everything that we take with us. So Jess is gonna go first.

Oh, I am.

Okay. Cause I will probably be a lot longer.

Yeah, I think you, since you're raising, you have a few more things you're taking.

Oh, do you want me to go first?

It doesn't matter.

Okay, nevermind. I'll go first so I can lead by example and show her how to do this.

I know how to pack.

This isn't the first time.

We haven't even been drinking wine. Seriously. We're saving that for Spain.

And then, and then Shoga.

Show me how it's done. Age before beauty. No, sorry, honey, I think I just insulted you.

I'm older and I just doubly insulted you.

Okay, so I'm gonna flip this.

Okay.

Okay, Here you go. Just make sure you keep holding it like that and don't flip it or else it'll turn our video upside down. Okay, so I don't know what you guys want to see first because this is kind of a double video because will be covering the health aspects, but then also kind of like the triathlon and racing aspects. So since we're near the outside, let's just go outside first and go over the triathlon stuff. So some. Some bike packing tips.

Okay.

All right, So a few things. Oh, sorry.

Get your hands on. On some of this tubing. This is stuff you can order off Amazon or wherever and just like cut into the pieces that you want. But basically I've got a piece of tubing like this in every size that I need it to be. Be in to go on. You know, everything from my fork to, you know, I've Got a piece cut for my top tube, for my seat tube, for my rear seat stay and chain stays on down the line. And then I also have basically more like a foam type of paper padding that goes around the derailleur when I remove the derailleur. So when you're taking apart your bike for travel, I left a little bit of it together just so you can kind of, kind of see basically what's going on here. But your wheels come off. Of course. There is no bike bag and whatnot.

Those come off?

Yeah, honey, they come off.

They're stupid questions for me. Okay, so the wheels come off. Okay? The derailleur here, this. You take off your pedals. You take off. Jess is saying, huh? Because I had to teach her how to do this. Your pedals, you take off your headset, you basically disassemble. And if you want to basically get a, get a close up here, you remove this star nut right here, you loosen the stem, you take your fork off, and then once you've done that, the bike is good to go. So a lot of people are, like, afraid of taking apart their bikes. Seriously, I'm just going to show you how to do this in literally, like two minutes, you can have your bike set apart for travel. And don't worry, folks, if you're not a triathlete and you don't travel with.

Your bike, you can skip this.

You can skip this. There will be part. Go have a beer. There will be parts of this video that will be more relevant to you than this. If you're not as triathlete, tape your seat. Okay. I put some electrical tape around my seat so I know the exact height that it's at before I remove the seat. So we probably could time this, but let's just. Let's just do it. Okay? So seat comes off and you're going to have a seat collar depending on the type of bike that you're using after your seat comes off. And I'll just toss everything right there for now, which is the bike box where everything's going to go. And your seat collar kind of comes off. See, like that. Don't leave that on because you don't want that to fall off. Just pull it off. Most bikes have a seat collar and all of my bike kind of equipment I put into one bag. So it's all in that one bag. And I have access to it when I need access to it. Okay. Like I mentioned, wheels come off. Okay. That's super easy. I already took the skewers Off. So one wheel comes off and the wheels go in separate bike bags. Rear wheel comes off. That's pretty easy to take off, too. Okay. Just pull.

That one's off. Okay. So now we've got a bike with no. No seat post and then no. No wheels and no pedals. Okay, Real quick, like I mentioned, I'm gonna loosen my. My star nut here. This one needs to come all the way out. Okay. The other ones don't need to come all the way out. But this one on the top, this is your star nut. This needs to come all the way out. Okay. So I'm just gonna loosen this completely, but I will be putting it back in, and I'll show you why here in a second. Okay.

For the same reason I lost mine.

Yeah. So you don't lose stuff. Because Jess lost hers the other day. We had to go to the hardware store and get her a new one. Okay. So that comes all the way out, and then this one simply loosens. Now, one of the things that I will do. Jess has got my phone right now to record this, but she didn't have it. One of the things that I do, if this is the first time you're doing it, when you're doing this part, take a photo of it before you take it apart, and then take a. Take a photo of it after you pull this stuff off so that you'll know how many spacers were above your stem and how many spacers were underneath your stem. Because I've got all these spacers here. Okay. For me, I pretty much know that they're all underneath my stem, but I pull all these guys off. Okay. And I'll just set these over here because all that's going to go into a little bag. I just put it all.

So you take a photo of that.

Well, I'll take a photo of that to know, like, how I take a photo of it when it's on the stem. So I know how many were underneath my stem. Because this is the stem. You want to know how many spaces were underneath it and how many spaces were above it. And then the other thing that happens is if and when you remove your fork, and I usually do remove my fork, because the bike packs a lot easier. You'll notice that when you remove your fork, this is something that really screws a lot of people up. And it kind of screwed me up when I first got it. When you move your fork, there's, like, these little bolts above your fork and these little bolts below your fork, and you can either take them out and try to remember how to put them back in the order that they were in. Or you can just grab a zip tie like this.

Oh, that's handy.

Okay. You put it through here, so if anything falls off from in there, you'll be able to grab the short zip tie.

Well, you get to.

Okay, I'll have to grab the longer zip tie later on anyways, you put the zip tie through there, so if anything falls off, it stays on there. You have to try and remember which order these guys were on there in. Okay. So then the very last thing that happens is you take your rear derailleur off, and at this point, the bike's right ready to pretty much put the foam tubing on and pat. The rear derailleur is basically here.

Super simple to remove. Just turn, turn, turn.

And that's off. Okay. So that will allow you to kind of pack this in padding so your rear derailleur doesn't get snapped. You'd be surprised at how many triathletes who travel to races have their rear derailleur malfunction during the race. A lot of times it's because they self packed and didn't remove the derailleur. And it gets damaged. It gets bent. Well, let's see. When it gets shoved into a box, that's it. If you want to do, like a takeaway of that bike, basically all that's going to happen is that what you see right here, what I just took off of this bike. This goes over here. And I'll put the tubing on my components first, like my top tube and stuff. So TSA doesn't completely destroy everything, but it all just basically kind of lays in here just like this, and voila. I mean, that's basically. I mean, it takes, you know, five minutes, and then the wheels go on on top. And I'll throw a few other things in there. What other things do I throw in there?

First of all, of course, the.

Wetsuit. Okay, we'll go in there. And I just put my goggles in with my wetsuit. Put the wetsuit in a bag. My bike shoes go in there. My running shoes. My brand new super cool score running shoes.

I want a pair.

Go in there. Sweet shoes.

Hopefully somebody who works there is listening.

Yeah, I do, actually. I think he might be a member of the Inter. No, honestly, I think he.

Hit, hit, nudge, nudge.

Okay. Action wipes. I always travel with action wipes. This is a nice little one that just throw in the bike box because I can wipe down my hands after I do all the stuff I just showed you. And I'll use these for some other things also.

You should pack gloves so your hands don't get all greasy when you put your bike back together. Gloves would, but Ben doesn't care about that.

I forget about that. I do the little things from a bike perspective, racing perspective. My race belt, I pack in there. My sunglasses, I pack in there. My helmet I have out here. But it's actually I travel with it on my backpack because it doesn't fit into a bike box, usually very well at all. And you don't want your helmet damaged. It's really easy for them to damage it when they're going through your stuff. A few other things I carry spare tube, but no CO2 cartridge because they'll remove it from your bike box. I carry enough extras to be able to completely change out a tube if I need to, which means plumber's tape, an extra valve extender, extra tire tape, extra electrical tape. Of course, I have my pedals here. I have some extra oil. I have my water bottle cage here, other water bottle cage here. All that I put into one bag. It's kind of like my bike bag that goes inside the bike box. And then anything else that's random, like, I'll shove into another bag. Like, the wetsuit goes in its own bag. These shoes will go in this bag, which also doubles as like a little backpack that when I get to where I'm going, I can wear and travel around with, rather than having to carry my big backpack around with me. And then the last thing is I bring an extra towel. It's good for just padding some stuff that you put into your bike case. And then I toss a few of my portables that are, like, liquids that I can't carry. Like, in this case, some sunscreen and some magnesium oil. The magnesium oil, if you're part of the inner circle, you probably know why I use it. It's a muscle relaxant, helps with sore muscles. Most people are deficient in magnesium, and it's very absorbable topically. I use the ancient minerals brand I travel with. That last thing is this stuff works really well for blisters and for long bike rides. This race is 120k bike, so I'll be out there for about three and a half hours on the bike and in that case, sprinkling some of this cool feet in both my bike shoes and my running shoes before the race and then also after the race to let them clean up a little bit. Better and not get all moldy and nasty really helps. So I don't have stinky luggage. Okay. So that's kind of the bike portion. Get any questions on the chat yet?

I can check. Okay. Did you guys ask any questions? I don't see any yet. Okay, Here you go. All right, so now we'll go inside.

Okay, so.

Now I'll show you some of the other stuff that. Basically, some of it. Some of the extras, like stuff that I don't need while I'm traveling will get thrown into that bike box because I like to travel light. And you're paying to ship a bike box anyways if you're traveling with a bike. So you might as well throw a bunch of stuff in there. So some of this stuff, like you can see here, I've got a bunch of magnesium, and I take this in powder form before I go to bed at night to help me sleep. But I won't take 10 packets of it on the plane. I'll take two packets of it on the plane and the other eight will go.

Another two for me into the bike.

Box and of course, two for my lovely wife. Okay, so what do I take? I take compression socks, okay. For long international flights, sometimes compression tights. And I learned this last year. It wasn't fun. They can create a lot of pressure sores and blisters and stuff like that if you wear compression tights during a long flight, especially if you fall asleep and you're sitting down. So all I really do now is I wear compression socks and then I'll wear, like, compression underwear, basically.

And this is good for people who aren't athletes.

Yeah. Anybody to help you for blood flow when you travel? So I use a compression shirt. This is actually exactly what I'll be wearing tomorrow. It's made by Kor. We do have a discount code. It's a free shipping code. Greenfield, vip. I'll remember to put that in the show notes. But I use core shirt. And then these are made by 110% compression. And I'll use these for socks or any other compression sock, really. To me, a compression sock is a compression sock. I don't care what brand it is. But then I'll use the 110% compression shorts or the core compression shorts. I like both of these companies for good quality compression gear. Plus they gave all of our. All of our listeners free shipping, which is nice. Okay, so got that. Let's talk about sleep first. I mentioned that I use magnesium. 30 minutes before you sleep or you plan on sleeping on the plane. One to two packets of this work really well. I like two packets when I'm traveling because you do tend to get kind of constipated when you travel. And magnesium can help to keep you regular. So sometimes I'll use more when I'm traveling than I would when I'm not traveling. Sleep mask and earplugs. Even though more often than not when instead of using earplugs, I actually just use the white noise app on my iPhone and I've got that in my ears. But earplugs I'll use when I get to wherever I'm going anyways. There's like wax earplugs. The earth pulse. I've talked about this. I did a whole like story on it over@BenGreenfieldFitness.com I travel with this. It goes basically this is part of it. This is a handheld unit. It's just got a piece that comes off it that goes under your mattress at night. If you're on an international flight that has a power unit, this can also go kind of underneath or kind of like back behind your lower back. And it can really help with sleep and relaxation. So I travel with the earth pulse to help with sleep. These are my blue light blocking glasses that block the blare of artificial glare of artificial light and computer screens and TV screens and stuff like that. I'll wear these whenever I know I'm going to be sleeping. Because I fall asleep a lot faster when I'm typing on the computer and wearing these versus not.

This if I have to. Like if I'm working in an airport, like sitting in the terminal waiting for the flight to leave and I gotta have my computer in my lap. This blocks the electromagnetic radiation from coming up the bottom of the computer. This just goes into my book bag along with my computer. It's called a harapad Hara pad. You can do a search for it@vangreenfieldfitness.com also put a link to this in the show notes. Okay. A few other things as far as sleep is concerned. Sleep and kind of like electromagnetic radiation. I guess that's kind of like what we're geeking out on right now. I've got some of the capsules that I use when I'm traveling.

Oh, you look like a 60 year old man. Got them all planned out for the week.

I stay regular when I'm traveling. So I'm going to show you what I ate.

I think my grandpa has one of those.

Show you where to travel with.

Or it could be A tackle box?

No, because if you're, if you're old, it's got like the days of the week so you remember not to kill yourself on Friday.

Okay, so this is the hammer REM cap. This is really good for when you get to where you're going. It's basically melatonin with some valerian root and stuff like that. Pop anywhere from one to three of those when I get to where I'm going. Okay. In kind of the same bin with that. Just regular old melatonin. Okay.

This is actually, I mean, can you overdose a melatonin?

No, you can't. Okay. But honestly, like, this is almost like too much. I just grabbed a handful, putting them in there. Honestly, for like an eight day trip.

Like we're taking, we're definitely getting stopped.

All I need is three for when I get. You don't travel with me.

Like, what are these pills?

This is something I've talked about on the show before. It's cap reflex for sore joints and you know, it's anti inflammatory. And I just did a triathlon two days ago and I'm like sore. So I packed some of this stuff because I'll be using it for the next few days to speed up my recovery. Amino acids. This is the master amino pattern. I pop 10 of these before the race. I'll also take five at the swim to bike transition and five at the bike to run transition. So this is for the race. This is extreme endurance. This is also a supplement I take to assist with lactic acid burn. I take four in the morning, four in the evening, including like before the race. This.

I can't tell you.

Can you remember? It's not a good thing.

Yeah. Okay, so like, and this is where being part of the inner circle, you get to see like some of the inside stuff, I guess.

I've done posts on, on enhancing testosterone before and you know, this would be like, like for men. I've talked to you about using a combination of D aspartic acid and an aromatase inhibitor. I've talked to you about the supplement Optimail from Biolytics. Truthfully, when it comes to testosterone, there is more than one way to skin a cat. There are a multitude of supplements out there. Some work, some don't. I am in the process right now of working with two very, very smart docs to private label some supplements that are.

So these are top secret.

All of us putting our heads together to come up with the best stuff. Okay, so we're going to keep you guessing this. Well, this is A testosterone enhancing supplement.

Within a year it should be available. If you're in the inner circle, you'll be the first to know about it. But I'm basically experimenting with it right now. It's not illegal. It's really a lot of ingredients you're probably familiar with, but they're just the ratios of them or it's one of those things where sometimes I get tired of sending people to one website to buy d aspartic acid and another website to buy an aromatase inhibitor and then put that together with tribulus or whatever. It's like, why not just be able to take one thing? So that's what I'm working on and that's why I'm taking some of those. So you just take one in the morning and that's it.

Okay.

Okay. So that's my old man box.

Helps keep me regular.

I'll remind you what each one helps.

Keep the ladies liking me.

Okay. And of course, more action wipes. They I showed you they have a big box and they also have individual packs. I just use some of these on the plane. Like after a long flight you're just wiping your arms down.

Yeah.

It's just nice to have colostrum. We did a podcast on this. I used this before Ironman or before any like really long race where gut distress and the heat can be an issue. And so I'm bringing this along because this is a long race. I mean this is like a seven hour race and I do use colostrum in situations like that. So I'll just be using this all week on race morning to help with my gut a little bit. It's really good for rebuilding your gut. You know, like if your kids grew up on soy formula, you should get them on a colostrum regimen for a good six to 12 months if they never got breast milk. If you your yourself have been on like antibiotic regimen, things like that, you need to rebuild your gut. Colostrum does a really good job at that. Basically closes up the linings between the cells and your gut. I bring electrolytes noon, not necessarily because I think I need electrolytes, but because I'm a wuss and I don't like plain water. So I like to put something in the water that makes it fizzy and flavorful. So I bring a bunch of noon. It's not going to hurt me during the race to have extra electrolytes.

Will it make you puffy if you're on a plane?

No, you just pee out the extra salt okay. Thank you, puppy. At all. Okay. We talked about magnesium Nutra Rev. You know, we've talked about antioxidants before on the podcast. Two in particular. Alpha lipoic acid and coenzyme Q10. I've really like. I've always brought up kind of two sources that I use for coenzyme Q10. One is the Hammer race caps and one is Nutra Red. I happen to be out of race caps right now. I go back and forth between the two usually. Honestly, because they're smaller, I travel with race caps. I happen to have Nutra Rev right now. It's really good for your brain. It's got a bunch of other stuff in it. It's also very, very. It's got everything that I've talked about before when it comes to like anti aging and skin. This has in it too. So it's just a nice little supplement. You know, it's one of those things that I feature@pacificfit.net I like it. It's liquid, it's highly absorbable. So I'm gonna travel with a bunch of like little travel sample packs of this stuff. Okay. All of my race day nutrition. This will get packed along in my bike bag. Cause I don't need it while I'm on the plane. So I'm gonna be running laps on the plane. But basically this is all my gels.

That I'll use during the bike ride and then during the run I'll just use whatever happens to be on course. Just like Coke, basically. And then a couple of Delta E's, which is like the cap.

I like those.

And I'll just take that before the race to give them to wake me up like 30 minutes before I do that instead of coffee because coffee is kind of acidic and the Delta E is more of a slow release. So let's talk about food. I've got some living fuel super greens. Okay. Jessa hates the taste of these. I just, honestly, I just mix it with water. I like it for something crunchy in. So I use the Coca Chia. This is a really good snack mix. It's like basically chia seeds and coconut flakes. So I'll like get a cup. I'll put a couple of scoops of the super greens in there. I'll throw one packet of this in there. Sometimes like a handful of almonds or a couple chunks of dark chocolate or something like that, which I saw you have, by the way.

So anyways, I always travel with some super greens. Nice alkalinic whole food. It's got Digestive enzymes, probiotics, kind of like a full meal deal. It's what I'll probably end up having in race morning for breakfast. And then I'll have enough leftover for one to two extra kind of like plain meals on the airplane. I like the Hammer recovery bars. I'm grabbing six of those. Just grass fed whey chocolate coating, all natural organic ingredients. It's one of those protein bars. I approve. I like Hammer Nutrition. We have a discount code for them. I'll make sure I put it in the show notes to this video. T Tianchi if you haven't heard me talking about Chinese adaptogenic herbs lately, you've been living under a rock. I swear by these things. If I could bring just a few things to a desert island, this would be one of them. It is high quality extracts, extremely potent. There's about £40 worth of Chinese herb extract in one little packet of this. And it literally makes you feel superhuman. I mean this stuff is amazing. I know the formulator, the dude is, is super duper. He's all about high quality. I mean it's hard to get this stuff because they make it so slowly. It's like two guys with you know all their, their, their Chinese herbs and.

So can people like inner circle people get things?

Yeah, you can get it. It's expensive. It's 90 bucks for, for a box. I mean it's not cheap stuff.

Okay.

But in my opinion it like it's, it's worth it. You get what you pay for. When it comes to check Chinese herbs and stuff's worth it. Phenocaine is like the natural alternative to ibuprofen. I may be sore after the race, I may, whatever, have a bike crash, get injured, whatever. I just use this stuff as backup. Grab a couple packets of this. It's basically a high, high potency, like a curcumin extract which is the active ingredient in turmeric combined with some other natural anti inflammatories. I don't use it on a daily basis because technically if you completely shut down inflammation, you shut down your body's ability to bounce back quickly from a workout. But if you're sore, this stuff works really well.

These.

Another nice lady, I'm blanking on her name. I think she's also a member of the inner circle though. She makes these in her kitchen. They're called Vicsi bars. This is just my way of saying hi to her and thank you for sending me these vixie bars. They're really good. Eat them on the plane. This one's peppermint Patty flavored and coconut Bliss flavored. It's one of those like gluten free natural food bars.

Ingredients that we should have given to the boys. They probably like it.

I did actually because she sent me like 10. They're really good. But anyways, Vixie bars. V I X I bars. So there you go.

Okay.

Razors. I don't like to travel with a big like bottle of like race lube because really only use a little bit. So I just grabbed some skin sake. This is like an all natural like chammy cream to keep you from blistering when you're riding your bike and stuff. And you put it underneath your wetsuit as well to reduce friction. And this is the stuff that I use. I'll go back and forth between this and like the hammer, the whatever it's called. The hammer nutrition version of the chamois cream.

Seat saver.

Seat saver. Wow. I'm impressed, honey.

Yeah.

Okay. Everyman Jack deodorant. So I smell nice on the plane.

Hair cream.

Whoever's next to you stuck with you. So it doesn't matter.

Charcoal toothpaste. This is cool because it's not liquid, so. So it doesn't count in the liquids that you bring on the plane. And I use charcoal toothpaste anyways. It's really healthy. Doesn't have all the fluoride in it. A regular toothpaste cleans your teeth really well, keeps food from sticking to your teeth. I'll put a link to the brand that I use in the show notes. It's made by this native American doctor down in Sacramento. It's good stuff. This is just my soap that I'll use to wash my hair and body while I'm traveling. It. It is 20 drops of tea tree oil, 20 drops of oregano oil and some of the. Dr. Brenner. Doctor. Was it Dr. Brainer. Yeah, Brainer's soap. Liquid antibiotic type of soap. Anyways, like you guys may have heard, I had kind of a scare with staph infection in mrsa. So now I'm really careful with the way I clean my body and I use essential oils and that. That soap, Dr. Brenner's soap to clean my body. So this is just what I'll use.

A few other things that I travel with elderberry for my immune system, which is. And this is all stuff that goes in my little carry on bag. I just do a few drops of this in the morning if I ever feel anything coming on in terms of sickness because I don't want to get sick before the race. Some extra tea tree oil in case I get any, like, you know, like, wounds and stuff that I need to help clean. Some oregano oil to keep myself from getting sick. I'll take a little bit of this to prevent airborne pathogens before getting the plane.

And this kind of falls into the same line as the testosterone thing.

You can't tell people you set it out.

Okay. I put one drop of this in a glass of water in the morning.

We let you know what it is.

It structures the water.

Okay.

Which you'll find out in a podcast next week is really important.

Stay tuned.

You can't buy this stuff right now because it's still. I get it made in Scotland and sent to me, and it is not going to be available for probably, like, another month in terms of, like, anybody else being able to get it. But it's super cool stuff. It goes right along with this thing, which I also can't tell you about right now.

You are totally.

No, but, like, honestly, like, that's like, I'm always trying out stuff and, like, testing stuff. If you're part of the inner circle, you get to see this stuff first. But you also get to sit through me, like, doing the embarrassing thing of, like, showing you stuff that I can't actually like that you can't get. But you'll be able to.

You will soon.

Okay, dude, I think that's it for me. Okay. I know we had some viewers on, but I don't know if we have any questions yet. Oops. Let's see. No questions.

Hi, Jamie.

No. Okay. All right, your turn.

All right, my turn.

Okay.

Nearly as lengthy as Ben's because I am not racing.

It sounds fun.

I'm gonna tell you about what I'm mainly bringing in my carry on bag.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm kind of go behind you because, like, the lights coming in through the window.

All right, so I'm a carry on bag. One of the things I like to pack in my family is I like to pack change of clothes and I like to pack my jammies and a pair of underwear because just in case your stuff gets lost, at least you have one change of clothes in case.

You wet your pants on the plane.

No.

Okay. All right.

Okay. And so that's. So I pack all that and I pack my toiletry. So I have. So if I'm stuck at a hotel without my checked luggage leave, at least I have one day's worth of stuff to wear and use.

I'm gonna flip on the light Here because the lighting is really kind of weird in here. Alright, there we go. Yeah.

Does that really do anything?

Let me also close this. There we go. Okay, that's a lot better.

So my supplementation is not nearly as extensive as Ben's is.

For me. I pack iron, but that's just for me. I don't necessarily believe that you all need to be taking iron glucosamine, because I do. I am active, just like Ben, just not doing the big race. So I bring this along to help out with my joints and everything.

Some fatty acids.

And acid check, which is a supplement that helps the ph balance in your body. Which is, which is.

That was like one of the ways you got rid of your migraines.

Yeah, that's been really helpful to me. So has the iron actually.

Yeah. For like migraines and stuff. Yeah.

And then this is something that can be for traveling. It's called charcoal. And if you get food poisoning at all, especially if you're traveling to internationally or places that you're eating food that you're not used to.

Charcoal is. And you get food poisoning. Charcoal is a really, really good way to, to.

Flush that out of your system and get it out as quickly as possible so you don't have to deal with it very long.

Yeah. The other thing, I don't think I showed this in that pillbox, but Capra Cleanse is another one that's good for like a cleanse like that silver is actually very good, kind of more than one way to skin a cat when it comes to that stuff. Okay, cool.

I too travel with magnesium and this is mainly. I travel with this because it's very good for women, especially your bones. And I'm blond hair, blue eyed, so I use magnesium often and it also helps me with sleeping and that sort of thing. So. And then I also travel with oregano oil like Ben does for the same reason. So you're on a plane and you're enclosed with all these people with all these germs. It's good to have some kind of defense.

What a good little traveler you are. That's not the super concentrated stuff, is it? No. Okay, just checking.

No, I don't want to burn my face.

It burns your.

Yeah, you can be cool with the stuff. If you get the pure, pure stuff. It'll burn your skin.

Yeah, it'll leave a marker. Get the stuff that's mixed in like the seven to one ratio.

Yeah, I've done that before and it's not fun. So for toiletries and stuff like that, I I use the charcoal stuff, too, so I'll probably not end up bringing. This is also another fluoride free toothpaste, Jason, that we use at our house. Our boys use this more often because they don't really like the flavor of charcoal.

Yeah, kids don't like charcoal toothpaste.

It's kind of like that dry feeling in your mouth. So it doesn't really appeal to kids as much.

I pack coconut oil with me.

Yes.

If you know me, I love coconut oil.

I actually use this to wash my face, so. So I pack it with me. The idea behind it is oil cleans oil. So you're putting oil on your skin by using this. And I think I have a how to.

Good idea. Yes, you do. You do have a how to.

Yeah. This is a body powder. And in this body powder I have, I make this at home. It's very easy to make. It's like corn starch and white clay. But I put like, peppermint and tea tree oil in it. And when you're traveling, it's nice to have those cooling.

Essential oils on you because then it reduces the puffiness and the swelling and that sort of thing. So if you can get it on you, you can do it with lotions or that kind of thing. I just happen to have it in a powder form.

It's cute, too. Is that. Hello.

It reminds me of my grandma.

Hello Kitty or.

No, it's just pink.

Where'd you get the.

Where'd you get the container? Where'd you get the container? Like, if people follow your recipe and.

I got this stuff from Amazon.

Do you have the recipe for that one, by the way, in the inner.

Yeah, you can actually use this because.

I know you did your moisturizer recipe.

Yeah. You can do this as a foot cooling powder, too.

So again, what is it? The ratios, I don't know off the.

Top of my head, but it's approximately. I don't know.

Put the recipe up in the forum for people in the inner circle.

Yeah. Okay. So for sleep, Ben and I have totally different methods of going to sleep. I cannot have things on my face like Ben can, and I cannot have things in my ears. So for me, we do it totally different. I do use the magnesium. I'll use that. But I also like to. I carry chamomile tea with me. So this aids you in.

Speaking of getting stopped at the border.

What are you talking about?

You got a Ziploc bag full of green leaves.

If they smell it, they'll know what it is. Okay. So I Have chamomile tea, and they will give you hot water. It's very easy to get your hands on an airplane. And I also travel with lavender essential oil, which you can just, like, dab on your wrists or on your neck or on your temple somewhere or even under your nose.

And the smell of that helps you go to sleep.

Both of those things will.

And puts those around you to sleep.

Yeah, they'll love you. People see people when they travel with me, they love me. Ben is.

None of my stuff smells.

Ben comes in with, like, this, like, green goop thing, and they're looking at him like, what is that?

Super greens.

Doesn't smell, but it looks really weird.

It looks like you're eating swamp.

Yeah, I know.

Mud. All right.

Okay.

So.

And also, when it comes to food, I don't really like protein bars very much, like, at all. Like, never. I will eat them only if I have to. And I'm. Yeah. Not into super green mixes or anything like that. So I pack my food, and I guarantee you Ben will be asking me.

For food.

Once I eat all mine.

Yes. I have coca chia, just like Ben does.

I got these little things. I don't. I normally make these myself, but I like these because they're handy to travel with.

So, like, nori.

Yeah, these are like nori sheep and nori chip.

I love nori.

See, I told you he'd be asking.

Me, can I have some of your nori when we're on the airplane?

Maybe. But this particular brand that I just found actually today, most of them make it with canola oil, which most of you know is a GMO crop. And it's not that good. It's very inflammatory, which is another thing you don't want to be doing on an airplane and getting your body all inflamed. So this is actually made with olive oil, so I was kind of stoked about that one. Hey, hey. Ginger. I like to travel with ginger because.

People get stomach upset.

Soothes your stomach. Yeah.

And it's just a nice thing to have after.

That's good. That's not like, just like, ginger root. Those are, like, little ginger candies.

Yeah. I like them because you can suck on them.

Yeah.

So they last a little longer. They have sugar in them, so I wouldn't go eating a ton of them.

Almonds I like to keep. I also bring my flaxseed crackers with me, too. They. These are good ways of getting fiber in you.

And it's like. It's not like you can't get stuff like, like Mrs. May's trail mix and stuff like that at the airport. But you know, this is costing us a buck or two. And it's like you'd pay for what you're holding right now to get the equivalent of just like what's in your hand right now at the newsstand at the airport, you know, eight to ten dollars. So.

Yeah, well, and I'm like, these are also soaked and dehydrated, so they are much more digestible than what you're gonna get in other places. And so are these. So these, you know, that's what I.

Was gonna have for dinner tonight. Just two days with the avocado and you're already taking them on the airplane. You're also taking the vegetables. What am I gonna have for dinner tonight?

Jeez, we have eggs in the fridge.

We'll have an egg for dinner. All right, what else?

We have a whole garden outside too. So go forage for yourself.

I'll go chew and stuff in the garden.

I bought one for you, honey.

Chocolate.

Chocolate. Dark chocolate. Just cause you know you get bored on the airplane and when you're bored, you want to have some. That's yummy. Dark chocolate.

Don't overdo it on dark chocolate though. Not be like, everybody knows it's high calorie or whatever. But it's also a carminative.

Yes.

That means that if you eat that whole bar, you would get gas.

Well, yeah.

Be uncomfortable on the plane if you.

Eat all of this too.

You'd get gas, but more, more. So the chocolate.

Yeah.

All right, this is digressing. Okay, so chocolate.

Yeah, I like to travel with dark chocolate because I like it. Lots of veggie, crunchy. They got snap peas in here. And celery.

Honestly, like, mindless snacking is so easy to do on a ten hour flight.

Definitely.

So it's like you might as well like have nori and carrots and celery and like stuff that at least is going to ensure that your mindless snacking isn't like, you know, 5,000 extra calories.

So it's not gonna like, you're not. If you're not eating those nasty cookies.

That they give you. Yeah, stuff at least.

I mean, this will keep you from getting.

But the other thing that you always want to do if you're on an international flight is you take the little box that says like when you. When you check in, like online, you tick the box that says gluten free Japanese meal, kosher. Whatever you pick, you can almost always get a healthier Meal than if you didn't tick that box. Even if you're not gluten free or Japanese or, you know, eating kosher or whatever, it's like ticking that box. You always get something healthier than, like, the standard fare. Good to know. I don't travel internationally and usually get your meal first, too. Yeah, because I think you're special. They take good care of you.

Bring an empty water bottle so you don't die.

Okay. Empty water bottle.

Water costs a fortune. It's kind of dumb.

Water doesn't cost anything.

I actually was at an airport once and I found bottled water for $10.

Yeah. In the airport.

$10, people. That's ridiculous.

I mean, on the plane. You get it.

Yeah. So I like to pack an empty water bottle with me.

Plus, if you do that, you can structure your water with my special magic.

Bottle that nobody can get.

Yeah.

Okay. So water bottle. I also like to bring lots of things for me to do on the airplane craft.

So are you gonna sew a blanket or something, or does it look like I'm gonna. I don't know.

I like to bring little pictures that my kids drew for me so I can. And that's me.

You must have shaved your eyelashes recently.

My boys think I have beautiful eyelashes. Okay.

Gosh.

Pictures of my kids.

Nice.

This is a little book. It's called One line a day, which I don't necessarily use on the airplane, but this is kind of nice because you can just write one thing that happened during that day that you. If you're not into journaling that you're grateful for or, you know, just something like your kid said or something that happened that day or something you love.

About your husband.

I'll just tell him.

Anyways, so you can just write it. So if you're not into journaling, which I am not, I don't have time to write novels. That's why I don't have a blog. So I used this thing, and I got this on Amazon and I think it's super cute.

Playing cards. I like to play solitaire when I'm flying.

Cool.

Sounds boring as hell, but sorry, honey, go ahead.

Not as boring as just sitting there staring at the seat in front of me.

I watch movies. Okay.

Ipod.

Yeah.

Tonight I'm gonna download stuff on here and, you know, ipod or, you know, just stuff to listen to.

Podcasts, which you never listen to.

Not very. Only yours, honey.

I also, since we're traveling internationally, these handy dandy little socket things. So I can actually use my blow.

Dryer and my curling Gotta have a socket thing. Okay. Oh, and by the way, I bring a Kindle. That's my thing is a Kindle, and I'm quite.

To that level.

Yeah. Kindle.

I bring a watch because I can't use my phone internationally. And then I can't. I don't have a. I don't have a clock with me, so I bring. I bring a watch.

Oh, I forgot to talk about these little things. Energy bites.

Those things are good.

Yes.

I can't eat them.

I know. They make you break up in the hives.

They're, like, super. I'm actually writing an article on these right now.

It's like, all kinds of, like.

It's like. It's like algae in, like, these little popcorn things that you can eat. Yeah. But they're. They're so high in beta carotene that I have, like, this beta carotene reaction.

I don't know.

So that doesn't happen to everybody because I called. Well, I called them and I was all freaked out, and they were like, wow, we've never heard of that before. So it doesn't really happen to people. But for some reason, I'm a freak of nature. But those are called energy bits, and I think we get a discount on those two. I gotta check.

So I'm packing those with me and to snack on here and there and.

Cool.

I think that's a really bad.

Nice. Let me see if we have questions. I hope our chat function isn't broken because we got viewers, but I'm not seeing any questions in chat today. So I'm really hoping that somehow I didn't turn that off and make sure. Okay, well, let me flip this. You can come here, honey, so we can say goodbye. Okay. Hey. So if you have questions and you're a member of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Inner Circle, leave your questions in the inner circle there in the forum, which you'll notice has kind of exploded recently.

With lots of people chatting, lots of topics, creative things. So, yeah, leave your questions in the forum and, of course, we'll post everything we went through in this video in the actual video. And wish me luck in my race. And.

Yeah, I think you can track it at the International Triathlon Union website, itu. It's the ITU World Championships in Spain, and I'm the reigning world champion, so I get to go defend my gold medal. That'll hurt. Okay.