Are We Just *Modern Zoo Animals*? The Ancestral Mismatch (Part 4)

**Ben Greenfield** (0:00)
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Well, we are at part four of The Ancestral Mismatch. For your convenience, right here in the description for this video or the audio version, if you're listening to that, I will put parts one through three of my best tips for fighting the uphill battle of living in a toxic, modern, industrialized world in a simple and affordable way that doesn't require stem cells and extreme biohacking. In this part, I'm going to finish by giving you a sample of what an affordable, practical day would look like if you were gonna apply most of the principles that you've discovered in this series. So the equipment and the investment needs are minimal. All you need is a hard shell hyperbaric chamber, a full body red light bed, and a stainless steel bucket for your morning organic coffee enemas. I'm joking. All right, here we go. Morning, you wake, you throw open the curtains for natural light exposure in your journal or you pray for five to ten minutes. You drink a big glass of filtered water, you use the bathroom, and then you do 20 minutes of stretching and breathing and light calisthenics in the sunshine or on your back patio or backyard. Bonus points, if you like me, listen to this, something with spiritually uplifting, like Daily Audio Bible is where I use during that time. And it's not an official workout, it's just moving the body, getting the blood flowing. Sometimes I'll crank out the foam roller, but basically it's just a quick check in with the body. And then you can take a quick cold shower after that for your thermal stress. Breakfast could be say, pastured eggs with bacon or a sausage or avocado with the pastured eggs, an oatmeal with honey and walnuts, or a smoothie with bananas and peanut butter or almond butter, preferably at least 12 hours after you've had dinner the evening before. And then at work or at school that day, you stay active, you walk everywhere you can. For every 45 minutes of work or studying, you stop for a handful of jumping jacks, push-ups, air squats, or some other light movement snack, often stepping outside in the fresh air. To do so, you continue to drink plenty of pure, clean water. Your phone is on airplane mode during that time unless you need it on. And this is very much how I spend much of my morning of work. Lunch is a whole heap of fresh greens or cooked vegetables topped with extra virgin olive oil and maybe some leftover meat from dinner the night before or an affordable tin of sardines or anchovies. If you happen to have breath mints handy, boom, simple. After work or after your afternoon studying, you do a quick 30-minute workout that hits your major muscle groups, pressing, pulling, squatting, hinging, lunging and twisting. I weave those into, honestly, if I'm doing full body, which I do when I travel, that's what I use. Pressing, pulling, squatting, hinging, lunging, twisting. Basic primal movements. And then if you have extra time, you hit the sauna or take another cold shower. Some people will do the 30, you know, sometimes up to 60 minute workout, three days a week and do the sauna and the cold on the in between days. But it's not complicated, right? It's not complicated unless you're a pro athlete. For dinner, you slide a tray of seasoned carrots and cauliflower into the oven, along with an herb rubbed whole chicken that took five minutes to piece apart. Yes, piecing apart a bird is a critical life skill. I do it all the time. I used to be intimidated by it, and now I can literally have amazing chicken dinner that feeds me for days. I'll include in the description easy roast chicken recipe from my wife, but it's a cheat code on life and chickens are not expensive. If you're feeling super adventurous, you throw a yam or a sweet potato with a few fork punctures in it, along in the oven with the chicken and the vegetables. You bake dinner for 45 minutes-ish and voila. You got a roast chicken dinner that would have cost you 35 bucks at a restaurant. For dessert, you have say, this is what I do, a cup of yogurt or coconut yogurt sprinkled with a few chunks of dark chocolate, some frozen blueberries, and that's it. No Ben & Jerry's required. After dinner, you go for a 10-15 minute walk and you listen to an audio book or a podcast for your post-prandial blood glucose stabilizing stroll. In bed that night, you forego bright overhead fluorescent lighting and you don an inexpensive Amazon-bought red light headlamp to read or study. Yes, you can get like $20, $30, very special biologically friendly bulbs, but I'm trying to make this fully doable for you from the get-go, no matter what your budget is. So now your circadian rhythm is in sync, your belly is full, your muscles are spent, you say your prayers, you fall easily in a deep sleep, prepared to start the next day fresh, with no umbilical cord stem cell infusions required. Yes, I know it was ultra simple, that example, and there's plenty more some dedicated fancy biohacker might do, but the sample I just gave you certainly wasn't expensive. It included spiritual habits, movement, thermal stress, nature, air, light, water and electricity, awareness, wholesome nutrition, a few hormetic stressors like cold, and fasting and herbs, and it is not expensive or complicated to do this, or to be healthy. You can live just a bit more naturally, even in a modern era. Now, I know you probably have questions about this stuff. You know, I'm a woman, should I fast as long as the 12 hours? Or what if I'm allergic to chicken or herbs? Or isn't that, yeah, I'm too many carbs, bro. I read all your comments. So stay tuned, however, because in the next video, we'll have a little bit of a switch up. I'm gonna tell you how you can discover happiness and fulfillment during this pursuit of health. But in the meantime, leave your comments right here. I love to hear what you think.