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My guest in today's podcast, Shawn Wells, MPH, RD, CISSN, has probably forgotten more about supplements than most people will ever know. His brain contains an extremely unique blend of time spent in the science trenches and a formal education in the fields of performance nutrition and supplementation. Shawn attended UNC-Chapel Hill, earning a Master’s degree in Nutrition and minor in Exercise Scie...

http://www.bengreenfieldfitness.com/323 July 8, 2015 Podcast: Cross Country Running Tips, Should You Use Wraps, Sleeves And Belts For Weighttraining, Home Remedies For Hernias, and How Protein Spikes Insulin. Have a podcast question for Ben? Click the tab on the right (or go to SpeakPipe ), use the Contact button on the app , call 1-877-209-9439, Skype “pacificfit” or use the “ Ask Ben ” form at t...

I recently read an article on Gakwer called  The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of Shit . It was written by today's podcast guest: Yvette d'Entremont. Yvette, AKA "The Science Babe", has bachelor's degrees in theatre and chemistry along with a master's degree in forensic science. With a background working as an analytical chemist, she currently runs the Science Babe website full time. Her site is an...

https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/322 July 1, 2015 Podcast: Does Ketosis Work For Crossfit, Raw Milk vs. Whey Protein, Measuring HRV During Exercise, and Should You Eat Before Bed? Have a podcast question for Ben? Click the tab on the right (or go to SpeakPipe ), use the Contact button on the app , call 1-877-209-9439, Skype “pacificfit” or use the “ Ask Ben ” form at the bottom of this page. -----...

Twin brothers River and Terran discover a portal to a hidden forested world attacked by parasitic fungi, dark shamans, and serpents. Along with an assembled band of unlikely misfits that includes coyotes, whitetail deer, wood thrushes, and fox squirrels, they must unlock their unique powers to control the elements of earth, air, fire and water, and save the forest before the evil they've uncovered...

Last weekend, I competed at the  TrainToHunt  event in Northern Idaho.   And on the day this podcast is released, I'm competing at a second TrainToHunt event in Southern Idaho.   If you have absolutely no idea what a TrainToHunt event is, then I'd highly recommend you listen in to my  previous TrainToHunt podcast with Kenton Clairmont . In it, Kenton and I discuss why bowhunting is probably the mo...

https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/321 June 24, 2015 Podcast: Is It Safe To Leave Metal Plates And Metal Screws In Your Body, Chicken Broth vs. Beef Broth, What's The Best Way To Do Home Altitude Training, and How To Recover From Overreaching. Have a podcast question for Ben? Click the tab on the right (or go to SpeakPipe ), use the Contact button on the app , call 1-877-209-9439, Skype “pacificfit”...

Twin brothers River and Terran discover a portal to a hidden forested world attacked by parasitic fungi, dark shamans, and serpents. Along with an assembled band of unlikely misfits that includes coyotes, whitetail deer, wood thrushes, and fox squirrels, they must unlock their unique powers to control the elements of earth, air, fire and water, and save the forest before the evil they've uncovered...

I just finished reading what I consider to be one of the best books of 2015:  Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance . In the book, best-selling author  Christopher McDougall , today's podcast guest and a guy who you may recognize as the same author of  Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Nev...

https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/320 June 17, 2015 Podcast: How To Do Your Workouts Using Biofeedback, Natural Remedies For Stomach Ulcers, How You Burn Ketones, Supplementing With Inositol, and How To Know If You're Getting Enough Micronutrients. Have a podcast question for Ben? Click the tab on the right (or go to SpeakPipe ), use the Contact button on the app , call 1-877-209-9439, Skype “pacif...

Australian HRV researcher Dr. James Heathers (pictured above) is one interesting dude. On a professional level, he is a Ph. D and an Endeavour Research Fellow in Electrocardiology at Poznan University of Medical Science, where his research revolves around measurement issues in heart rate and heart rate variability. On another level, he has  an extremely interesting and thought-provoking blog , whe...

http://www.bengreenfieldfitness.com/319 June 10, 2015 Podcast: How To Fix Golfer's Elbow / Climber's Elbow, How To Keep From Retaining Water With Creatine, Can Fascia Store Toxins, and Urinary Testing For Hormones. Have a podcast question for Ben? Click the tab on the right (or go to SpeakPipe ), use the Contact button on the app , call 1-877-209-9439, Skype “pacificfit” or use the “ Ask Ben ” for...

A quick discussion at the starting line of a triathlon or other endurance race, a review of any forum devoted to endurance sports, or an article in any running, cycling or triathlon magazine tends to expose you to the same standard strength training advice over and over again... ... sport-specificity dictates that endurance athletes don't need to be lifting heavy stuff... ... do high reps, low res...

I'll always been a fan of gritty adventure, survival, wilderness exploring and even TV shows like Bear Grylls, Survivor Man, and yes, occasionally even Naked & Afraid. So after I returned from a week long wilderness survival immersion at Twin Eagles Wilderness School , I jumped at the chance to get adventurer  Monty Halls on the podcast. Monty is a broadcaster, speaker, naturalist, formal Royal Ma...

A few months ago, I had a party at my house, and one of the guys in attendance - my friend James Sol Radina - handed me two capsules of something called "CBD", also known as cannabidiol. This was actually right before we left to go play a giant game of laser tag in America's largest laser tag arena, in which he and I came in first and second place.  But this podcast, in which I interview James, al...

Today I present to you a guy who is no stranger to the BenGreenfieldFitness podcast: Tim Ferriss. Three years ago, Tim appeared on this show with Ray Cronise in the episode " Tim Ferriss and Ray Cronise Explain How To Manipulate Your Body’s Temperature To Burn More Fat" . Two years ago, he returned with the " Tim Ferriss Cold Thermogenesis Episode" . And now Tim is back, because believe it or not,...

Recorded LIVE from the Argonne Library in Spokane! The average trip to your local health food store exposes you to a colorful variety of fermented foods like kombuchas, yogurts, kefirs and other packaged compounds that promise to maximize your digestive health by increasing your beneficial gut flora. But this whole fermentation thing isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. Cultures around the world have f...

A few weeks ago, I got an email from a podcast listener who said I had to get a guy named " Matt Riemann " on the show. I had never heard of Matt. So as I often do, I had a brief Skype video conversation to "vet" Matt and see if he would be an informative guest for the show, or, as so often happens when some random person solicits a guest to me, a charlatan. Turns out, Matt is the former. Within t...

http://bengreenfieldfitness.com/318 May 20, 2015 Podcast: Can Household Cleaning Chemicals Get Into Your Food, What's The Best Grip For Pull-Ups, How To Use Ketoforce, and How To Use Resistant Starch? Have a podcast question for Ben? Click the tab on the right (or go to SpeakPipe ), use the Contact button on the app , call 1-877-209-9439, Skype “pacificfit” or use the “ Ask Ben ” form at the botto...

A few weeks ago, I received an interesting email from a podcast listener, who cryptically stated... ..."you could improve sleep also by a simple screening of oximetry to rule out OSA in your adrenal fatigue clients. 30% of OSA patients have OSA unrelated to obesity. Me included and I am 9% body fat. Just something to consider since you are doing a lot of cool but out of the box sleep recommendatio...

http://www.bengreenfieldfitness.com/317 May 13, 2015 Podcast: Is Your Blood Pressure Too Low, What To Do Before And After Surgery To Recover Faster, Spreading Exercise Through The Day vs. Doing It All At Once, and Is Raw Sweet Potato Healthy? Have a podcast question for Ben? Click the tab on the right (or go to SpeakPipe ), use the Contact button on the app , call 1-877-209-9439, Skype “pacificfit...

Click to Subscribe to All Ben's Fitness & Get A Free Surprise Gift from Ben . Click here for the full written transcript of this podcast episode If you like this podcast, use the Facebook "Like" button above! Brendan Brazier (pictured above) is interviewed in this podcast about his plant-based diet. In this July 21, 2010 free audio episode: how to eat a plant-based diet, what causes weight gain af...

Dean Pohlman's first yoga class was entirely on accident. He says: “I was looking for the tailor and stumbled into a Bikram Yoga studio. I had always been interested in yoga but had never taken a yoga class before that day. I asked the yoga instructor if this class would help my athletic performance. [At the time I was a lacrosse player for the University of Wisconsin.] She told me that it would h...

http://bengreenfieldfitness.com/316 May 6, 2015 Podcast: Exercising In The Heat vs. Sauna Training, Should You Use Colloidal Minerals, Healthiest Way To Clean Water Bottles, How To Increase Pain Tolerance During Workouts, and Using Skulpt To Measure Body Fat. Have a podcast question for Ben? Click the tab on the right (or go to SpeakPipe ), use the Contact button on the app , call 1-877-209-9439,...

Abel James, AKA "The Fat Burning Man", joins me today to share some juicy gems from his new book " The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days ". Abel is a speaker, entertainer, and consultant, and he has presented keynotes for the Federal Government, lectured at Ivy League universities, and advised Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Danaher, and Lo...