"Oil Changes" For Your Blood, DIRTY Pharmaceutical Secrets, AI-Powered Medicine & More With Brigham Buhler.

**Ben Greenfield** (0:00)
My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life Podcast, what kind of things would you be using? What kind of modalities?

**Brigham Buhler** (0:08)
Oh, dude, I love this. Okay, and this plays right into it too. So so many modalities, like a plasmapheresis. Most Americans have no clue what that is. Yeah. Plasmapheresis has been around 50 years. You know what I'm saying?

**Ben Greenfield** (0:19)
Oh, that long, really?

**Brigham Buhler** (0:20)
Yeah, it's over 30 years, and it's been utilized.

**Ben Greenfield** (0:23)
The machines have changed, right?

**Brigham Buhler** (0:24)
They have a changed, evolved and improved.

**Ben Greenfield** (0:25)
You guys have a pretty spankin, like, cool, brand new machine.

**Brigham Buhler** (0:28)
Yeah, but historically, they have never used it for preventative care.

**Ben Greenfield** (0:33)
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.
This episode recorded in one of the most unique gyms I've ever been in. I've done it Ways2Well in Austin, Texas, is with Brigham Buhler. We talk about how pharmaceutical companies may or may not be screwing you, how compounding pharmacies work, a new form of stem cells, plasmapheresis, like an oil change for the body, and a lot more. All the show notes are at bengreenfieldlife.com/ways2well. That's bengreenfieldlife.com/ways, the number two, well. Dude, we are in like the sickest dungeon ever. Tell people what this place is.

**Brigham Buhler** (1:31)
I love it. This is the gym that we built here at Ways2Well. It's funny, we had a bunch of different clients from all different walks of life that come in. And I've always wanted to build a gym that's state of the art, but was inspiring to like me. So I took all the 80s characters from my childhood, Arnold and Hulk Hogan and Jordan and all of the icons. And then in the Muay Thai area, we've got all the UFC legends, just murals and state of the art Soarnex. But the goal was to create a place that was communal beyond just coming in for treatment.

**Ben Greenfield** (2:04)
Soarnex is like a type of machine, right?

**Brigham Buhler** (2:05)
Yeah, Soarnex makes a lot of the collegiate level athleticism programs, like they make all of those Olympic lift machines, a bunch of really cool, unique isolation machines.

**Ben Greenfield** (2:18)
I have big hands, like the machines, a lot of times you work up a nautilus at the gym, it's the little tiny handles, the Soarnex, big thick handles. I literally just worked out in here. And then you got the blue light thing going to light everything up.

**Brigham Buhler** (2:30)
Yeah, with lighting too, man, I'm kind of OCD. I'm like, man, I want everything to be an experience. So I thought make it feel like you're in a spaceship when you're working out. So we've got LED lights that can change colors and set a vibe, depending on what you're trying to do. Or we can light it up like a Christmas tree and make it all bright white hospital vibes if you needed the lighting better.

**Ben Greenfield** (2:51)
Yeah, I saw you working out in here on Instagram a few days ago. You had a post of you doing like preacher curls. I'm assuming you were in the gym. I didn't realize how tatted up you are. Do you like full sleeves, bulldog?

**Brigham Buhler** (3:04)
Yeah, I have a lot of tattoos.

**Ben Greenfield** (3:05)
What's your favorite one?

**Brigham Buhler** (3:07)
Honestly, this new one on my hand, dude. And I did it as crazy as it sounds. The first tattoo I ever got, my dad's like, good luck, you'll never have a job again.

**Ben Greenfield** (3:15)
Yeah, my dad showed up on my front door.

**Brigham Buhler** (3:19)
So it's so ironic because even I got this one thinking, maybe I'll never have to do anything political again. Yeah, it hasn't made a difference so far.

**Ben Greenfield** (3:29)
And for people who can't see in the videos.

**Brigham Buhler** (3:31)
Yeah, I don't know if you can see in the videos or not, but it's just a hand tattoo. It's like a traditional eagle.

**Ben Greenfield** (3:37)
Well, by the way, those of you who are watching the video, I'll put all the juicy show notes at bandgreenfieldlife.com/ways2well. It's the number two, Ways2Well. Is that what it's always been named?

**Brigham Buhler** (3:48)
Yeah, yeah.

**Ben Greenfield** (3:49)
What's the idea behind the name?

**Brigham Buhler** (3:51)
You know, we were literally, I remember sitting in a room, this was, man, I guess eight or nine years ago, and we were trying to come up with a name, and we were talking about wellness and preventative care, and we went through dozens of names, and at first, I did not like the name Ways2Well. It was one of the ones I eliminated immediately, and I don't even remember how we ended up deciding on it, honestly. And now I love it. Now I've gotten used to it, because it does, I do think it's encompassing of what we're trying to achieve. The goal is to achieve wellness, not to treat chronic disease.