What You Can Learn From The Burgeoning Health, Wellness And Nutrition Scene In Israel.

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Hey, folks, it's Ben Greenfield, welcoming you to this very special episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, straight to you from Tel Aviv, Israel, where I am on a wellness and nutrition blogger tour. Now, let me preface this entire audio by telling you that I have created an article that I think you're gonna find fascinating. That I'll talk about in just a second. But in the meantime, that article is over at bengreenfieldfitness.com/israel.

If you don't know how to spell Israel, you could probably just Google that.

Anyways, before I jump into today's episode, which includes an interview with a startup that allows you to molecularly analyze any material in the environment around you. It's crazy. Apples, cheese, ibuprofen, supplements, you name it. I want to give a big shout out to today's sponsor, Onnit.

Now, you can check out Onnit over onnit.com/bengreenfield. When you go there, you save 10%. Here's the deal with Onnit. I have, as I think many of you know, a home gym.

And in my home gym, I have some pretty crazy fitness equipment. I've got battle ropes, I've got sandbags, I've got these things called primal bells, which are literally kettlebells with monkey faces on them. I have an old tire in my backyard, and one of the things leaning up against that old tire is a steel mace, which you can use to slam against the tire. Some of the craziest fitness equipment you've probably ever seen in your life.

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Now, let's jump in to the meat of today's podcast episode. Like I mentioned, I just wrote a fantastic article for you over at bengreenfieldfitness.com/israel, where I talk about what you can learn from the burgeoning health, wellness, and nutrition scene in Israel. And it really is pretty crazy over here. A few of the things that I've got in that article for you are first, some vegan food recipes. Yes, that's right, Ben Greenfield, the man who hunts and fishes and kills animals and eats animals, also eats vegan. And I've been eating vegan actually almost the entire time that I've been here. And I've found some stuff that's really, really dang tasty. I give you one of the recipes that I found at this restaurant that I ate at called Metsay. Same restaurant Natalie Portman eats at. So there you go, it's gotta be good.

Metsay cooks this vegetarian food, and the guy who is the chef there is a vegetarian and a wild plant expert. His name is Gow. He's been a wild plant expert since he was 13

So they usually don't publish their recipes. I twisted his arm. I got him to hook us up with his custom recipe for moussaka, which is like melt in your mouth.

Eggplant layered with tomatoes, layered with potatoes. There's like tahini in there. It's brushed with olive oil. It is one of the most fantastic things that you will ever eat. And yes, it does not have meat in it, but you can check that out. I put a recipe for that over in the show notes. I also did quite a bit of Tom over the Dead Sea. I did a mud rap in the Dead Sea. I bathed in the mineral-rich waters of the Dead Sea. I posted a rather entertaining video of what it looks like to be floating in Dead Sea water, which is crazy. You can barely even get your head underneath the water. It is so buoyant. But you can also check that out over there. And one of the interesting things is that the spa that we went to actually oxygenates the air in the spa.

And I discovered this method that you can use to oxygenate the air in your home. And it basically uses some ferns and plants that are known to boost the oxygen level in your home. They've been studied by NASA, things like the Japanese royal fern. There's another one called the snake plant, the spider plant, and also one called the Chinese evergreen. I give you some links and information to some of these plants over in the show notes. But what you can do is plant these in your home, and they literally purify and boost the oxygen level of the air in your home while you're sleeping at night or while you're sitting at home working. I've got some pretty entertaining photos of me in the spa, also covered in Dead Sea mud and date mud as well.