Latest Seed Oil Controversy, Most Important Body Part?, CBN For Sleep & More! Solosode #501

**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, the latest seed oil controversy, the most important body part, CBN for sleep, and a whole lot 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.
You might be familiar with my book, Boundless, Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body and Defy Aging. It got a little out of control writing it. The original manuscript is over 1500 pages.
I got it down to like 700 pages and released it several months ago, about a year ago, the fully updated version of Boundless, kind of like the Bible of biohacking, a cookbook for everything you'd ever want, hormones, gut, digestion, et cetera.
And I realize it's a little bit intimidating to pick up and read. And here's why I'm telling you all of this. I am curious if you would like the audio book version of Boundless, like on Audible or elsewhere for you to download, listen to at your convenience in the gym, on your commute, on your hike, while you're cleaning your kitchen, in the bathtub, taking a crap. I don't know, whenever you listen to an audio book. So anyways, if that is remotely interesting to you and you want me to make that audio book happen so that you can have it in your ears wherever you go, go to bengreenfieldlife.com/boundlessaudio, bengreenfieldlife.com/boundlessaudio, your opinion matters. Welcome to today's show. It's a little old me just by myself, flavored and fueled by element orange salt. I drink so many of these. I don't have high blood pressure yet, and I don't think I'm going to get it because it actually is a pretty good mineral balance. I could probably overdo it on this stuff, but no sugar, no caffeine, 500 milligrams sodium, 100 of potassium, 30 of magnesium. The sparkling flavor is great. There you have it, but it is what I used to stay hydrated. I had a killer sauna session this morning, once a week. Well, actually twice a week now, now that I'm getting old and I need two recovery days. Instead of lifting weights, I do a VASPER session. Well, the VASPER is this fancy exercise machine that combines blood flow restriction and cold and grounding and full body exercise. And I have like an oxygen breathing unit next to it. I realized this is advanced and nerdy stuff. So I do a 21-minute exercise session on that VASPER. And then I do some flow for addressing body parts that tend to lag or that tend to not get addressed in the full body lifting. I do the rest of the week, like the glute medius. And I'll do some deep tissue work on the piriformis and the psoas. Do some balance work, some big toe flexor work, which we may learn more about today. And so I do that for about 20 minutes and then I finish with 20 minutes, as hot as I can go stretching in the sauna, kind of my own bastardized version of Yoga Flow. And I had this company, shout out to Western Soul, SOL, fly up from Boise and build a sauna on my property. The sauna is grounded. They use like a thermal pressed aspen wood that's low VOC, no chemicals treated in the process. It's beautiful sauna. But man, oh man, it gets hot. The heater in it, when you put it on, takes the water, the steam from the water that you put on the rocks and then kind of recirculates it up to the top of the sauna. But that means all the heat hits the lower part of the sauna and then goes up to the top. So you can't hide from the heat, like even when you're down on the ground. So I was in there this morning doing like yoga flow and some pushups and it's a big sauna. Like I can fit like 20 people in there.
I think I'm going to do a podcast with those guys at some point, just so you can learn more about some of their prefab and custom saunas and the difference between dry, infrared and steam. Anyways, though, cool build. So shout out to the guys from Western Seoul. Anyways, so that's why I'm rehydrating. Long story short. But today is not about the sauna. Today is about all of the interesting things that I have found on the internets and in the research that I pour through every morning, mostly in exercise, sports science, health, fitness, biohacking, longevity, to make your life better.