Little Known Hacks For Sleep, Jet Lag, Anti-Aging, Immunity, Smart Drugs & More: A Behind-The-Scenes Sneak Peek Of Ben Greenfield's New Book Boundless.

Oct 17, 2019

In this engaging conversation, Angelo Keely, the visionary founder of Kion, dives into transformative health strategies and insights. He reveals powerful techniques for improving sleep and combatting jet lag through innovative supplements like Urolithin A. The duo discusses cutting-edge anti-aging methods, including peptides and nootropics for cognitive enhancement. With practical tips on nutrition and unique wellness hacks, they aim to empower listeners to optimize their health and longevity. Get ready for a wealth of actionable knowledge!

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ANECDOTE

Boundless Book Journey

Ben Greenfield's new book, "Boundless," was initially rejected by major publishers for being too comprehensive and edgy.
The manuscript started at over 1,100 pages, covering topics like energy medicine, enemas, sex tips, and psychedelics.

INSIGHT

Boundless vs. Beyond Training

Beyond Training focused on athletic performance and fixing issues athletes face, but lacked the mind and spiritual components.
Boundless aims to provide a blueprint for optimal energy, health span, and lifespan, regardless of fitness level.

ADVICE

How to Read Boundless

Read "Boundless" chronologically, starting with brain optimization before moving to body and spirit.
The book is research-backed with thousands of references and additional resources online.

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Boundless

Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

Kathleen Winter

In 'Boundless', Kathleen Winter recounts her 2010 journey across the Northwest Passage, accompanied by marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. The book delves into the impacts of climate change, the emergence of new hybrid species, and the geopolitical tensions over sovereignty in the region. Winter also reflects on her personal odyssey, including her childhood migration from England to Canada and the complexities of cultural identity and traditional ways of life among the Inuit population.

The Oxygen Advantage

Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter

Patrick McKeown

In this book, Patrick McKeown introduces the Oxygen Advantage, a revolutionary approach to breathing that can significantly improve health and fitness. The book explains the fundamental relationship between oxygen and the body and provides techniques such as the Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT) to determine and improve oxygen efficiency. McKeown's methods include light breathing exercises and simulating high-altitude training, techniques used by elite athletes and military personnel to enhance endurance, weight loss, and cardiovascular health. The book addresses chronic overbreathing, a common but often overlooked issue that contributes to various health disorders, including anxiety, asthma, insomnia, and heart problems. By following McKeown's program, readers can achieve better sleep, increased energy, improved concentration, reduced breathlessness during exercise, and enhanced overall well-being.

Superfuel

James DiNicolantonio

Superfuel cuts through the confusion about dietary fats, revealing which fats support health and which do not. It discusses topics such as the benefits of saturated fats, the risks of vegetable oils, and the importance of omega-3 and omega-6 balance. The book also explores a cyclical ketogenic diet and provides guidance on cooking oils and supplements like fish oil and flax oil.

Undoctored

Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

William Davis

In 'Undoctored', Dr. William Davis critiques the conventional healthcare system for prioritizing profits over health. He argues that millions of people are given dietary recommendations influenced by big business, prescribed unnecessary medications, and undergo unwarranted procedures. The book offers a comprehensive program to reduce, reverse, and cure hundreds of common health conditions by applying simple strategies, harnessing new online technologies, and using the collective wisdom of online communities. It includes a step-by-step guide to eliminating prescription medications, tips on distinguishing good medical advice from bad, and 42 recipes for a 6-week program.

The longevity diet

Valter Longo

The 4-Hour Body

An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

Tim Ferriss

In 'The 4-Hour Body,' Tim Ferriss shares the results of over a decade of self-experimentation and research, involving hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of personal testing. The book covers more than 50 topics, including how to lose weight quickly, gain muscle without steroids, sleep less and perform better, and improve sexual health. Ferriss emphasizes the importance of finding the smallest changes that produce the biggest results, making it accessible for readers to achieve significant improvements in their physical health and performance.

For the past three years, I've been tirelessly toiling behind the scenes to create the book I've personally always wished existed: a complete guide to optimizing the human body, mind, and spirit—written with no stone unturned, no fluff, no “watered down” drivel—just pure, hardcore, practical, from-the-trenches content. I won't lie: nearly every big New York publishing house turned me down for this book.

It was too big. (The completed manuscript was over 1100 pages, and we trimmed it down to 608 pages for the final release.)

It was too comprehensive. (It wasn't a flash-in-the-pan, pop-culture, buy-it-at-your-airport-bookstore read that someone could get through in a few days then toss and move on.)

It was too edgy. (After all, I cover everything from the energy medicine to enemas to crazy sex tips to psychedelics and far beyond.)

But nonetheless, I decided to plow forward and write a book that I personally wanted to read and that I've always wanted to write: a big, beautiful, hardcover blueprint that anyone could rely on for years as a cookbook for all things performance, fat loss, digestion, brain, sleep, sex, spirit, happiness, anti-aging, longevity, and much more.

(Heck, just the section on longevity covers every molecule in existence that can maximize your lifespan, and is over 173 pages alone!)

I call the final result “Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging,” and you can consider it to be the last book you'll ever need to unlock unparalleled breakthroughs in performance, recovery, sleep, gut health, hormone balance, and much more.

In this podcast, Angelo Keely, a former podcast guest you can listen to here and the founder and CEO of Kion, puts me in the hotseat and we reveal a ton of the tips from the book, including hacks, tricks and strategies for longevity, sleep, jet lag, the immune system, fat loss, fasting and beyond.

During our discussion, you'll discover: -Why Ben wrote Boundless [6:30]

"A book I've always wanted to write, and to read"
Brain, Body, Spirit optimization
Beyond Training was largely body focused, but didn't get into brain, spirit, anti-aging components

-Who the book is for [10:15]

Anyone who wants optimal energy all day long
Give ideal combination of lifespan and health span
Written based off personal experiences, podcast guest experiences, etc.
It's not meant for quick consumption

-Why Ben wrote the book the way he did and how a reader should go about consuming it [16:15]

It's a blend of time in the trenches and well-researched science
Web page for each chapter; references, podcasts, etc.
"This book is more of a treasure," something you can explore for months and months

-Ben explains the training and diet plans in the book [20:45]

Training plans:
- Beginner: max fitness w/ minimum effective dose of exercise
- Intermediate: Add a sauna session w/ breath work, cold soak or swim
- Advanced: Add biohacks (cold thermogenesis gear, holotropic breath work, etc.)
There's no one diet that's perfect for everyone, but there are some commonalities among diets:
- Regular periods of intermittent fasting
- Low amount of inflammation
- Periods of fasting and feasting
- Detox throughout the year
- Multi-colored plants and spices
Diet plans in Boundless:
- Beginner: Clean up protocol; choose what diet will jump start the body
- Intermediate: Wahls Protocol, Plant Paradox diet, low carb Mediterranean
- Advanced: Weston A. Price protocol, paleo diet, ancestral diet
- Travel: Eating healthy on the go
The book is written to allow the reader to determine what is best for their own body, rather than prescribing a solution

-A brief overview of the 200+ page chapter on anti-aging and longevity [35:00]

Stacs (Sertuin Activating Compounds)
- Fisetin - plant polyphenol
- Add Wild strawberry powder to morning smoothie
- Dark cacao powder
- Curcumin powder
- Matcha green tea
Combo to increase cellular autophagy:
- Quercetin
- Pau d'Arco
- Glycine
- Garcinia
- Chamomile
Very multi-modal approach for a proper approach to the topic

-Ben's approach to weight loss [46:00]

Three steps:
- Overnight fast
- Morning cardio in the fat-burning zone
- Cold shower or cold therapy
Supplements to increase conversion of white fat to brown fat
- Mint essential oil
- Curcumin
- Green tea
- Capsaicin

-The best way to read and consume the book [53:25]

It's written in order to start from the beginning (begin with fixing the brain)
Address each element of your body/life and move to more advanced protocols
Fasting protocols are listed in order of importance (getting started to major spring cleanups)
John Douillard's LifeSpa
Book: The Longevity Diet by Dr. Walter Luongo

-Hacks for the brain found in Boundless [58:10]

Peptide sequences
- peptidesociety.org
- Some peptides for the mind are not injectable (CMAX, Dihexa)
How to "eat yourself smart"
- Book: Super Fuel
- Glycine and Spirulina can protect your brain from effects of canola oil

-New hacks for travel [1:06:30]

Grounding and earthing
- Ultimate Longevity
- BGF podcast w/ Clint Ober
- Grounding mat
Xeno hormesis
- Astragalus
- Rhodeola
- Kion Tian Chi
Decreasing inflammation
- Glutathione before and after travel (Alms Bio)
- Hydrogen water tablets (Quicksilver, Water and Wellness)
- Ketones
Nose unblocking exercise:
- Pinch nose w/ fingers
- Inhale and hold breath (Do while walking for best results)
- As soon as you need to take a breath, inhale through the nose

-Tips for immune system health [1:17:30] -And much more... Resources from this episode:

- Click here to pre-order Ben Greenfield's new book "Boundless" now and to get in on the Boundless Sweepstakes!

- BGF podcasts mentioned:

- Quicksilver

- Water and Wellness

- John Douillard's LifeSpa

- Book: The Longevity Diet by Dr. Walter Longo

- Book: Undoctored by William Davis

- Bio Gaia L Reuteri

- Oregano Oil (KION)

- Beekeeper's Naturals Bee Propolis

- Colostrum

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