The Latest Cool Longevity Drugs, The Best Way To Exercise For Your Mitochondria, Fasting For Men Vs. Women & Much More With Dr. Chris Shade.

Ben Greenfield (0:00)

On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, for most healthy people, it doesn't matter that much if you have a tablespoon of butter in your morning coffee versus not.

Dr. Christopher W. Shade (0:11)

We used to have Uricase, and we were fruit livers and stuff, and then we ran out of fruit. The ones who lived through that were the ones who had mutation that didn't have the Uricase. There's all these feedback loops that keep you into AMPD.

Ben Greenfield (0:24)

And I mean, if there's anything that people get out of this whole podcast, it's probably to take out fencing.

Ben Greenfield (0:31)

Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more.

My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show.

Ben Greenfield (0:52)

Hey, so this is a fun episode. It's with my buddy, Chris Shade.

He interviewed me, I interviewed him. Geez, I don't know which way we were going, but this is what it sounds like when two geeky guys nerd out. I was on a walk during this show, and he interviewed me while I was out on a walk, and I had a blast on this episode. So I think you're really, really gonna dig it. The last two years have been kind of crazy, haven't they?

Ben Greenfield (1:13)

Now it's crazy.

Ben Greenfield (1:14)

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Dr. Christopher W. Shade (4:04)

Welcome to Shades of Health Podcast, and I'm here with the one and only Ben Greenfield. Now, we don't see Ben.

We have this placeholder of him. He looks very much like Chris Hemsworth, but he kind of looks like that anyway.

Ben Greenfield (4:17)

Oh yeah, I was gonna say, use Thor, please.

Dr. Christopher W. Shade (4:19)

Use Thor if you're using a placeholder. The Thor, he's walking through an ice field now, and so we can relate it to that in some way. But yeah, we're gonna join Ben today, and we're gonna talk about a couple of things.