The Most Effective Detox You've Never Heard Of (And Exactly How To Do It).

Ben Greenfield (0:00)

Hey, folks, I'm back, back at it.

When I say back at it, I mean back at that annoying habit of sipping coffee during my podcast introduction for you. It's because I've been getting up early. All this travel forces me to duck into my basement in the wee hours where my recording studio is and get this stuff ready for you before I go hop on a plane. But it also means I'm drinking coffee once again while I record. So today, you are going to hear an episode with... Sorry, I'm distracted. My puppy just came in the room. We have a new puppy, a blue healer named Comet, to go along with our Rhodesian Ridgeback named Blitzen.

I digress. Today's podcast is with Dr. Dan Pompa, cellular detoxification expert. That sounds like kind of a woo-woo term, cellular detoxification. But this guy is actually one of the best chiropractic docs on the face of the planet. Somebody, a ton of physicians look up to as a source of outside-the-box thinking. And you will discover what I mean by that when you listen to today's show.

I will tell you that this is not the normal Q&A with Rachel and I that you're used to hearing on Wednesdays. A, because we're now releasing interviews on Wednesdays interspersed with the Q&A and banter between Rachel and I. Also, at the time that you are hearing this, I'm either, I'm losing track of my schedule, I'm either hunting elk in the mountains of Colorado near Trinidad, Colorado with my bow, or I am filming a TV show in Burbank, California, which I'll tell you about at some point, but I'm sworn to secrecy right now. The other thing is that I just returned from Malibu, California, where I recorded a couple other great podcast episodes for you with Neil Strauss and Rick Rubin, both really interesting episodes. I also worked out with Neil and Rick just yesterday in the gym of the guy who's called the fittest old guy in the face of the planet. We did the old school workout called the hardest workout in the world from Esquire magazine. So we did this in the basement of Don Wildman's home.

And basically Don has a bunch of pneumatic pump exercise machines all lined up in a row. And you do 30 repetitions of each machine, then 20, and then 10 And between each rep, you do an abdominal exercise. We were there two hours, just a machine-based circuit, which was interesting and induced slight rhabdomyolysis or excessive muscle damage and inflammation and peeing slightly orange before I got in the plane. However, I have to say that I'm still a bigger fan of my own gym. And the reason for that is because my own gym is comprised of a bunch of functional equipment, tires, sandbags, big kettlebells, little kettlebells, ballistic medicine balls, a speed rope, a battle rope. My entire gym is pretty much outfitted by this company called Onnit. You need to point your web browser to onnit.com and go check out the stuff these guys have in their gym. Do I think that I will live longer than this guy Don Wildman, whose workout we did yesterday?

Yes. If I keep swinging these zombie-faced and chimp-faced kettlebells around, quite possibly 150, 180, 100 I'm just throwing some numbers out there.

Anyways, Onnit, how do you save? You go to onnit.com/bengreenfield, and you can get 10% off any supplements and foods. You can get 5% off anything you need to make your gym more than just a machine-based circuit, which is great if you have a bum knee. But honestly, I'm just a bigger fan of functional moves. Just saying, even though I had a great workout yesterday.

Okay, this podcast is also brought to you by what I consider to be one of the best ways to learn how to cook conveniently and get fresh meals delivered to your home. It's called Blue Apron.

And one thing I wanted to point out to you, get out the Prairie Home Companion music, sit back, put on your Prairie Muffin dress, and lean back in your rocking chair. Cooking together builds strong family bonds. I'm not kidding. My kids and I cook these Blue Apron meals together, and then we actually sit down and watch MasterChef. It's like this weekly thing that we do. They did research on this, and they showed that people who cook with these meals, they get delivered to your home, they cook nearly three times more often. They spend more time together. They eat together more often. But Blue Apron is more than that. Their beef is raised humanely. Their chickens are free range. Their pork is range naturally. They use regenerative farming practices. Their seafood is sourced sustainably. They put it all together. They ship it to your house with recipe cards that allow you to open a box and just cook whatever you want to cook based off of what Blue Apron has sent to you. Actually, it's not whatever you want to cook, unless you're one of those independent learners who, when you were a kid, dumped all the Legos out of the box, threw away the instructions, and built your own version of what was on the cover. No, they include recipe cards, just like Lego boxes include Lego instructions, and you simply follow one, two, three, boom, and you're a five-star chef.