Are “Healthy” Foods Actually Hurting You? Meal Tracking, Stem Cell Therapy, & Radical Anti-Aging Hacks With Jennifer Cohen

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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In this episode—released as a special dual drop with Habits & Hustle with Jennifer Cohen—you’ll get to explore everything from sneaky “health” foods to radical anti-aging protocols, all while diving into the latest tools for living a truly boundless life.

Whether it’s practical tracking tools, advanced biohacking strategies, or daily routines that fuel a long, vibrant life—this conversation with Jennifer Cohen pulls back the curtain on it all.

Full show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/jenandben

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0:00.0	My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast,
0:04.8	your cardiovascular fitness is split into four different categories.
0:07.4	Your fat burning capacity, your VO2 max, your mitochondrial density,
0:10.8	and your ability to be able to tolerate lactic acid, aka the burn.
0:14.7	If you are just walking or just sprinting, you're not going to hit all those variables.
0:19.4	For V02 max, once every one to two
0:21.4	weeks, you do a hard, maximum sustainable pace effort, like a four by four minutes on a bike
0:26.9	with four minutes of recovery after each. Perlactic acid tolerance, you go hard and then you recover,
0:32.5	but not for very long. This would be like the classic Tabata set. 20 seconds hard, 10 seconds easy,
0:39.5	eight times through, four minutes, boom, done. That could be a couple times a week.
0:41.0	For mitochondrial density, you go really hard, then you recover for a long period of time.
0:45.7	So this would be like 5 30 seconds sprints with 2 to 4 minutes of recovery after each one.
0:49.9	The sprints are really hard.
0:51.1	The recoveries are really hard. The recoveries are really easy. And then for fat burning capacity, you could do like a 12-3-30 or go out for a long hike
0:57.1	or whatever.
0:58.4	But you need to be aware that cardio fitness is not just cardio.
1:01.8	Cardio is technically four different things.
1:03.1	So if you hit those four, if you two max mitochondrial density, lactate tolerance, and fat-burning
1:07.3	capacity, and those are kind of like woven throughout your week, then you're going to get all of them.
1:12.7	Welcome to The Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield.
1:17.2	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.
1:34.0	Thank you. levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond. Shilajilajilajit. You've probably heard of Shilajit because it's taken the health
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