Protecting Your Brain from 4 Invisible Super-Villains with Ben Greenfield

MODERN LIVING

• Four supervillains are the product of living in a modern era.
• Find that addressing these will help everyone, especially those who have perfect exercise and nutrition regimes but find their brain is still foggy.

AIR

• Indoor air quality is becoming as much of an epidemic as outdoor air quality e.g. mold, fungi, mites, cleaning chemicals.
• Many people breathe through their mouth due to stress—this activates a stress response and mean chemicals are inhaled directly without being filtered through the nose.
• Action steps: get a good HEPA air filter, or try a Molekule air filter or Air Doctor.
• 1989 NASA clean air study, the Japanese concept of shinrin-yoku (forest bathing)—try to include this in your home
• You can also try essential oil diffusers, looking into the effects different oils have on your cognition e.g. rosemary, peppermint, cinnamon for alertness.
• Learn more about the Patrick McKeown, The Oxygen Advantage.

LIGHT

• Flight mode on the phone, f.lux program for your computer, blue light blocking glasses.
• Modern fluorescent lighting is composed of blue light spectrum: causing retinal damage, and flicker—a barely noticeable distraction that reduces your cognitive superpowers.
• Biological LED still produce a lot of flickers.
• Red incandescent is best for sleeping areas, and clear incandescent most accurately simulates sunlight.
• Good lighting=less brain fog and clearer thinking.
• Photobiomodulation—selling red light panels to bathe yourself in at night to help offset exposure to blue light during the day (Joovv).
• Get as much sunlight as soon as you can after you wake in the morning.
• Wearing blue light glasses during the day can disrupt your circadian rhythms as it will block all blue light—have two pairs to alternate between (Ra Optics).

ELECTRICITY

• Homes are cluttered with signals: turn wifi off at night—if you can’ remember to do this, buy an automatic timer to shut it off.
• Ben uses an ethernet cable to hardwire in—avoids the use of wifi, Bluetooth and cell phone signal.
• Damage tends to decrease in terms of distance from the router.
• Don’t wear or use technology that emits signals—known to cause issues with calcium channels in your cells.
• Keep your phone on airplane mode if possible.
• Book: The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs.
• Mitigate damage by pushing reboot: getting hands and feet in touch with the earth, PEMF technologies (Dr. William Pawluck, Bob Dennis ICES technology).

WATER

• Whatever you weigh in pounds, divide it by 2 and that’s how much water you should drink.
• Water is what helps to move nutrients between your cells—but it needs a charge to be effective: structured water or hydrogen-rich water.
• Filter your water (reverse osmosis or carbon block), and add minerals to your water: keep a Celtic salt shaker and add a little, Quicksilver Scientific mineral solution, AquaTru trace mineral drops.
• Purchase a structured water filter, or hydrogen-rich tablets or generator (trusii).
• Avoid plastic containers and purchase water in glass containers.
• Remember: how you live matters to your grey matter.