Episode #176: The Shocking Truth About Wheat

Brock (0:00)

In this podcast, The Shocking Truth About Wheat with Dr. William Davis. Also, Fiber and Fat, Ankle Weights for Cycling and Running, The Ben Greenfield Food Pyramid, L-Arginine for Performance, Juicing, Shin Pain, Achilles Tendonitis, Joint Pain, and Semethicone.

SPEAKER_2 (0:22)

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Brock (0:55)

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. We're back once again in that weird space between Christmas and New Year's. And yeah, how's it going, Ben?

Ben Greenfield (1:07)

It's going well. Merry belated Christmas, Brock.

Brock (1:10)

Thank you very much, you too. And happy early New Year's.

Ben Greenfield (1:15)

That's right, that's right. For folks listening into this podcast, of course, this is the New Year's episode.

By the time this podcast is released, we'll be just a couple days out from 2012 So exciting New Year coming up. And Brock, anything in the realm of fitness or nutrition that you got for Christmas that you'd like to tell anybody about? Any new toys?

Brock (1:41)

You know, I'm so well outfitted, and most of my family is so, I don't want to say clueless, but they really don't understand. So I end up getting a lot of gift cards, and I'm really pleased that I got a couple of really good gift cards that I can go out and, well, I'm going to spend most of them on rock tain for my races in 10 days. Because, man, those things are expensive.

Ben Greenfield (2:06)

Yeah, that's a good sport, Gilda. That's one that I recommend, even though it's a little spendy.

Brock (2:11)

How about you?

Ben Greenfield (2:12)

I also didn't get much, but I did get a gift card for Swim Outlet, and so I went and bought myself some of those fancy schmancy fulcrums that basically attach to your forearms and keep you in a high elbow position while you are swimming. I don't currently use them, haven't used them, and really don't recommend them to my athletes or in my athletes' workouts simply because I'm not too familiar with them, but they are interesting. I want to try them out, experiment with them a little bit, and see if they'd be something useful for me and the folks I coach. So, picked up some of those, picked up some new fins, and yeah, so those should arrive soon and should inspire my winter swimming workouts. So, what do you think? Should we jump into this week's special announcements?

Brock (2:58)

Let's do it.

Ben Greenfield (2:59)

Special Announcements All right, folks. So, for the special announcements this week, first of all, mark your calendars for Wednesday, January 11th. Wednesday, January 11th at 6 p.m. Pacific time, I'm going to be doing a live seminar.

The purpose of this live seminar is to go over a brand new triathlon training program that I'm releasing on January 12th, literally just a few hours after the seminar. You can come to me with your questions about that program, which is called TriRipped. And anything that you want to know about what it is, what's included in it, who should be using it, what levels it's designed for, what distances it's designed for, anything that you want to know. You can come attend that seminar for free. It will be live. I will stay as long as necessary to answer all your questions.

And that again is on Wednesday, January 11th at 6 p.m. Pacific time. I will put a link to it in the show notes of this podcast episode, episode number 175 at bengreenfieldfitness.com.

176, you're right. 176, podcast episode number 176 And by the way, in today's podcast episode, fantastic interview with Dr. William Davis about wheat and The Shocking Truth About Wheat. So stay tuned after the Q&A to listen into that. And that kind of leads me into the last thing I wanted to mention.

Brock (4:26)

Yeah, this is the last time this is going to happen.

Ben Greenfield (4:28)

Yeah, probably.

Yes, because we're going to start this in 2012 We're going to experiment with it and see how you like it. The majority of the folks who responded to last week's question about whether or not you wanted to see the podcast split into two shorter episodes were, yes, you would like to see a podcast devoted to Q&A and then a separate podcast devoted to that week's featured topic, resulting in two podcasts during the week from bengreenfieldfitness.com, about 40 to 60 minutes each.