How To HACK Plant Protein For Muscle Building, How *Little* Can You Train To Maintain Muscle (& A Sauna Strategy), The Best Time To Take Melatonin, & More! Solosode #482
Ben Greenfield Life
Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this solosode, you’ll get to explore some of the most powerful tools and strategies for optimizing your body and mind. First, we’ll dive deep into the benefits of plant-based protein for building muscle. If you’re wondering whether plants can pack the same punch as animal-based sources, you’re in for some surprising insights. You’ll also get to explore minimalist training techniques—perfect for maintaining strength and muscle with less time and effort, so you can stay fit without spending hours in the gym.
This episode is packed with actionable tips and insights designed to help you live a truly boundless life. Get ready to upgrade your health, performance, and mindset. Let’s dive in!
05:17 - Rebranding to The Boundless Life Podcast, reflections on a 17-year podcasting journey, and insights into a $25,000 blood filtration protocol in Tijuana.
11:19 - The concept of solvitur ambulando ("solved by walking"), how walking improves learning, focus, neurogenesis, and boosts memory, mood, and cognitive performance.
15:06 - Benefits of physical movement while learning, the Aristotelian peripatetic school approach, and using a manual treadmill for walking while working.
27:13 - A study on maintaining 95% of fitness gains by training once every two weeks, combining strength and cardio in one session, and tips for efficient workouts.
32:27 - Sauna use for muscle growth, recovery, and bone density via heat shock proteins, growth hormone, and mTOR activation, with evidence-based benefits from high-heat sessions.
36:41 - Advantages of "weekend warrior" workouts, plant-based vs. animal-based proteins for athletic performance, and the role of leucine in boosting muscle protein synthesis on plant-based diets.
44:06 - Effective melatonin use for sleep and jet lag, issues with over-the-counter dosing inaccuracies, and selecting reliable supplement brands.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of The Boundless Life podcast, how to hack plant protein for muscle building. |
| 0:05.6 | How little can you train to maintain muscle and a cool sauna strategy? |
| 0:10.7 | The best time to take melatonin and a whole lot more. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to The Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, |
| 0:22.4 | and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, |
| 0:28.2 | and beyond. |
| 0:35.3 | Red light therapy, aka photo biomodulation, if you want to sound smart, has a host of benefits |
| 0:42.0 | for collagen, for elastin and skin health, for the function of your endocrine system, for your |
| 0:48.8 | circadian rhythm, for blood flow. And one of the cool things I like about it is that I can even use it in my office to light up |
| 0:57.6 | my office when I'm working in the morning and simultaneously get my red light therapy. |
| 1:01.4 | I actually sandwich myself in between two red light panels when I'm working. |
| 1:05.6 | The red light panels that I use are made by a company called Ju. |
| 1:08.5 | A lot of people ask me, well, why couldn't you just get any old red light panel? |
| 1:13.3 | Well, Juve is made with medical grade components, unmatched quality. The amount of power that a red light |
| 1:19.2 | device produces will dictate the amount of necessary treatment time. And because Juve has a good amount of |
| 1:24.2 | power, it also means you don't have to spend all day standing in front of a red light panel to actually get the benefits. So Juve has a good amount of power, it also means you don't have to spend all day standing in front |
| 1:27.6 | your red light panel to actually get the benefits. So Juve does the best of the best when it comes |
| 1:34.2 | to red light therapy. That is true medical grade red light therapy. They invest in their tooling |
| 1:40.7 | and their engineering to create a light therapy experience that's unlike any other. |
| 1:45.6 | You have tiny little ones like the JuGo that you can take with you anywhere you go. |
| 1:50.2 | And they're going to give an exclusive discount on your first order to all my listeners. |
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