12 Easy & Practical Ways To Upgrade Your Body & Brain (Ben Greenfield's Live Talk From NextHealth In LA!)

If you're finding yourself reliant upon those compounds [nootropics and smart drugs], in my opinion, you need to back off and dial in your sleep and your energy levels.

Quinoa, while being very nutrient-dense, has to be rendered digestible. You have to soak or rinse it in many cases.

That was one of the most profound things I've done in the past two years to increase my deep sleep percentages—blue light exposure early in the day.

We can't deny the fact that for some people, including myself, some kind of lifting or exercise is almost like meditation.

I'm not a fan [of NSAIDs] in just about any circumstance when there's so many natural alternatives out there.

I don't care whether you're high-fat/low-carb or low-fat/high-carb, you must eat a high intake of wild plant matter.

Post-workout nutrition tends to be heavily over-emphasized. The only time I tell people to emphasize it is if you've done a hard workout in a fasted state in the morning, then it behooves you to actually prioritize getting nutrition back into your body.

If you're lucky enough to have a lifestyle that allows you to go to bed within about 2-3 hours after sunset and wake with the sunrise, that's ideal.

Your best sleep architecture is going to come from going to bed at a frequent time and getting up at a frequent time.

I think everybody, every one to two weeks, based on research, should do something that targets your maximum oxygen utilization.

We lose a great deal of our carbon and the fat that we're burning through the breath.

Your goal should be—no matter what kind of diet you're on—to get to a point where you can include as many different food groups as possible.