What you’ll hear in this episode:

- How physical health, mental clarity, and spiritual awareness are deeply interconnected

- Ben’s approach to optimizing the body without losing touch with meaning or presence

- The role of discipline, ritual, and intention in sustaining long-term health

- Consciousness as more than cognition — how the body becomes a gateway to awareness

- Where biohacking helps and where it can become disconnected from wisdom

- Breathwork, recovery, and nervous system regulation as tools for inner balance

- Aging, vitality, and redefining what longevity actually means

- The difference between performance optimization and true well-being

- How faith, spirituality, and embodiment influence daily choices

- Choosing alignment over excess in the pursuit of health and longevity

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About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

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Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

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About Ben Greenfield:Ben Greenfield is a health consultant, author, and speaker known for blending cutting-edge science with ancestral wisdom in the pursuit of longevity, vitality, and purpose-driven living. His work spans fitness, nutrition, recovery, biohacking, and performance, while also exploring the role of faith, spirituality, and consciousness in true well-being. Through books, podcasts, and coaching, Ben emphasizes an integrated approach to health that values embodiment and inner alignment — asking not just how to live longer, but how to live more fully.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 — Preview

0:00:44 — Intro: Bhutan as a model for some as the future of society

0:04:35 — Welcome Ben Greenfield

0:12:12 — How Ben first got interested in biohacking

0:18:27 — How light at night affects sleep

0:20:19 — Keys to health: movement, sleep, nutrition, and meaningful relationships

0:28:16 — What Zone 2 cardio is and why it matters

0:33:33 — The benefits and drawbacks of a ketogenic diet

0:38:25 — Lots of sugar and the wrong kinds of fats

0:44:05 — Thermal stress, weightlifting, time outside, and healthy eating

0:48:58 — Ben’s reflection on the GLP-1 movement

0:56:34 — Why Ben is optimistic about the future of humanity

0:59:53 — Doubling down on family

1:07:21 — Ben on the dystopian views around AI

1:14:45 — The spiritual dimension to paranormal activity and plant medicines

1:17:53 — Plant medicine: use with caution

1:23:45 — The Book of Revelation, end-times symbolism, and spiritual imagery

1:31:18 — Consciousness as the unsolved frontier; applying faith to everyday decisions

1:38:45 — Closing thoughts

Books mentioned in this episode:

- Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation — Stephen Mitchell

- Boundless — Ben Greenfield

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- The Tao Te Ching — Laozi (Lao Tzu)

- Why Buddhism Is True — Robert Wright

Hilarious biohacking video referenced:

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