How To Maintain Muscle On A GLP-1, Why Protein Stops Working As You Get Older, The Truth About Eating “Before Bedtime” & More! Solosode #502

**Ben Greenfield** (0:00)
My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life Podcast, in this episode of the Boundless Life Podcast, how to maintain muscle on a GLP-1, why protein stops working as you get older, the truth about eating before bedtime, and more.
Welcome to the Boundless Life, with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond.
I spent 20 years measuring and optimizing everything about my body. Deep performance metrics, cold stress, heat stress, sleep scores, blood panels, peptide protocols, testosterone, telomeres, VO2 max, you name it. And somewhere in the middle of building what looked like perfect life, I almost lost the lives that I was building it for. Boundless. The Man Who Became Human is a brand new feature documentary that follows what happened when the optimization framework that I spent two decades constructing ran headlong into the things that metrics could never measure. My marriage, my sons, my faith. The private archive footage in this documentary has never been seen publicly. Some of it I debated even including at all. It shows basically the worst of what happens when longevity becomes the ultimate goal. And how you and I can turn that around to become fulfilled by what's truly important in life. Now, this is not just another biohacking film. It's an honest look at what it costs to chase the ceiling on human performance told through real footage of one family, my family finding that out. And I'm giving you the chance to join me for the brand new live premier tour of this new film In A City Near You. Here's what the night looks like. You watch the film, me and my family in a theater, and then you experience a live episode of the Boundless Life podcast on stage with open Q&A. Real questions, no filters. My wife, Jessa, and my sons, River and Taryn, will be there with us as well. VIP ticket holders get to join for an exclusive after party with upgraded food and drinks. This Boundless Life tour kicks off in LA on July 24th, Austin on August 20th, New York City on August 6th, Miami coming down the pipeline, London coming down the pipeline, more cities to be announced. Tickets are on sale now. Grab them now before they're gone at boundlessdoc.com. That's boundlessdoc.com, and I hope to see you there.
Well, welcome to today's show. Hopefully, I don't get too rambley and scatterbrained with you. I didn't have the most fantastic sleep score last night. It's funny, we live in a day and age where 20 years ago, I would have said I didn't sleep too well last night. Now, I have to rely on a computer to tell me that fact. Nonetheless, my wife and my kids are out of town.
They went to the coast, which sounds very bougie. But basically, they have a great time with the family down there. I had to stay at home and buckle down with work. Had a fantastic day of work. But it's just something else to be in the middle of the sticks out in North Idaho, sleeping at home all by yourself. Yes, I have locks and I have alarm and I have dogs, but they're still just like this. Every little noise, you know, and I go to sentry mode anyways, when I'm sleeping and I'm very light sleeper. I must have woken up like five times last night, including the time at midnight where I for sure thought I heard the dogs barking and thought I heard some kind of ruckus downstairs. I found myself in my boxer shorts, wandering around my house, clutching my Walther PDP Pro four and a half inch barrel gun with the strobe light activated, sweeping the house, finally got back to sleep. But let's just say that I am going on a cup of coffee and some intranasal peptide CMAX today, and I'll get through the show. We got this. We got this. So that'll be said. The show notes are going to be at bengreenfieldlife.com/fivezerotwo.
It's bengreenfieldlife.com/five oh two. And we are going to jump in with a couple of questions today. I haven't answered listener questions for a couple episodes now. So I figured it would be fitting for me to do so. Someone with a very difficult to pronounce multi-consonantial name asks, Melodicubus? Melodicubus. Hopefully, I'm saying that correctly. Hey, I got a rare question. Do you have any idea how to beat tinnitus, tinnitus or tinnitus as some people say, after acoustic trauma? This shit is killing me. It's been two years now and I can't cope.
Well, the good news or the bad news, depending on how you look at it, is this is not a rare question. Tinnitus is something that plagues a lot of people and it can be frustrating and it can be brought on by acoustic trauma, aka your favorite concert with multiple concerts in a row, because damage does have to be, it does have to be chronic in order for you to develop tinnitus. Most people don't develop tinnitus from one great, whatever, like country music show at the Sphere.