How Ancestral Habits, Biohacks & Smart Movement Can Fix Your Energy, Focus & Hormones (Even In a Toxic Modern World) With Jimmy Rex
Ben Greenfield Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you'll get to explore what it really takes to optimize your body, mind, and environment for peak performance and longevity with special guest Jimmy Rex, founder of We Are the They, a global men’s coaching movement. Jimmy is a leader in personal development, a top real estate expert, and host of The Jimmy Rex Show, where he dives deep into success, mindset, and leadership. His passion for adventure, humanitarian efforts, and redefining healthy masculinity have made him a transformative figure in the space.
This episode is packed with actionable insights, real-world strategies, and deep conversations that will challenge you to think differently about your health, relationships, and purpose. Whether you're looking to optimize your body, level up your mindset, or create stronger connections, you’ll walk away with the tools to live a more complete, fulfilled, and boundless life.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast, I almost 100% avoid fried foods. |
| 0:07.5 | There's occasionally when I'm traveling, somebody's like, this is the best, like, fried chicken sandwich you're ever going to have in your life. |
| 0:13.8 | I will take one for the team and occasionally have something like that, but it's very rare. |
| 0:18.6 | Fried foods are one of the worst because the vegetable oil |
| 0:21.9 | that is heated up can become very oxidized and rancid. And those oxidized compounds can stick |
| 0:28.8 | around in your body for up to a couple of years. I tell people if you were to walk up to me at the |
| 0:33.7 | county fair and offer me like a stick of cotton candy or a corn dog, I'd have |
| 0:38.8 | a stick of cotton candy 10 times out of 10 because that's just carbohydrate and sugar and I |
| 0:42.8 | can walk around and burn it off and, you know, go to the gym later that day or whatever. |
| 0:48.3 | But the vegetable oil and the corn dog, the friedness in the corn dog will stick around in my |
| 0:53.0 | body for months and months and is what is |
| 0:54.8 | used to comprise my cell membranes. I'm not black and white all or nothing on everything, |
| 1:00.2 | but fried foods would be like 95% of the time I avoid them at them out of restaurant. |
| 1:06.3 | Welcome to The Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about |
| 1:15.4 | helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond. |
| 1:26.6 | I want to tell you about these funky monkey five-toed shoes that you see me wearing. |
| 1:31.5 | They're called Paluva. |
| 1:32.6 | It's a new zero-drop minimal shoe with the distinctive five-toed design that I love. |
| 1:37.1 | It's the most authentic barefoot style experience, but with sufficient cushioning to use for all manner of everyday movement, fitness, and athletic activities. |
| 1:44.4 | Incredibly stylish fashion. So you get a barefoot shoe that actually looks good that people don't |
| 1:49.4 | wrinkle their noses at. They got a wide box zero drop approach and individual five-toe articulation |
| 1:57.3 | with a separate slot for each of your toes for correct dynamic movement of the |
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