Podcast
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
It was written after Ben realized he was 'fit on the outside but dying on the inside', and explored areas such as digestion, hormones, and the endocrine system, which athletes often overlook.
I realized, oh crap, like I'm fit on the outside, but I'm dying on the inside. High inflammation, low testosterone, dysregulated thyroid, gut inflammation and gut issues and constipation.
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Episode: Ben Greenfield ON: How to Train Your Brain & Body...
It was written after Ben realized he was 'fit on the outside but dying on the inside', and explored areas such as digestion, hormones, and the endocrine system, which athletes often overlook.
I realized, oh crap, like I'm fit on the outside, but I'm dying on the inside. High inflammation, low testosterone, dysregulated thyroid, gut inflammation and gut issues and constipation.
But really true fitness is not about going to a little fake box at the beginning of the day and pushing, you know, fake heavy things around for an hour and then walking out and assuming that you're good to go.
My first big book that I wrote called beyond training was just that it was like, okay, so as an athlete, there's all these other things like digestion and hormones and endocrine system and inflammation and blood sugar regulation and immune system integrity and all these things that we don't think about when it comes to what it truly takes to have long health span and lifespan.
