EP 126 — Ben Greenfield — Living Well, Parenting and Learning

The Complex Relationship Between Genetics, Microbiome, Nutrition, and Intuitive Eating Key takeaways: - The impact of methionine consumption varies among over methylators and regular methylators based on their genetics and microbiome - The concept of genetics, microbiome, sympathetic and parasympathetic dominance is not fully understood in terms of how they affect an individual's response to different foods and diets - Pay attention to your body and what you eat to understand the effects it has on you - A whole episode on intuitive eating is available on Ben Greenfield fitness dot com slash Ben and Paul Transcript: Speaker 2 Be eating and then we know from from the studies of genetic data that some people who are over methylators might not do so well with high levels of methionine from meat whereas other methylators might need more methionine but nobody's ever taken the concept of your genetics your microbiome your sympathetic versus your parasympathetic dominance and kind of cracked the code on how all of those probably feed in to a certain extent right it's not tell you how to do that just nervous system it's not just bacteria it's not just genetics i can tell you how to do that yeah magic pay attention to what you eat in your body it's exactly what's going on with all of those we recorded a whole pot as a matter of fact for those of you listening in of show notes at a Ben Greenfield fitness dot com slash Paul And Ben Paul and Ben i believe is is where all or actually it's Ben and Paul Ben Greenfield fitness dot com slash Ben and Paul i'll link to all the other podcasts that i've done with you Paul but we did a whole episode on intuitive eating and uh and back to this bio geometry concept because we were talking about the balancing of the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system when one walks into a room in which this cube is placed or which in which the room is tuned so to speak biogemetricall...

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Visualizing Blocked Energy in the Body Key takeaways: - A disturbance in the energy field can look like black areas, muddy areas, or red areas compared to the rest of the field - Holding patterns due to pain and trauma block the proper flow of energy and create entanglement - Beliefs and judgments are the guiding force behind the creation of energy patterns Transcript: Speaker 1 Physically ill when you spot it what does it look like to you in that case it often looks like um imagine if i saw a painting of your wife let's say and i looked at it through my third eye i would see black areas almost like someone painted her with coal where the energy is stuck or it can be dark muddy reds it basically what happens is there's many ways it shows up but compared to the homogeneity and the flow of the rest of their energy field there's a disturbance there which would be like if you had a a creek and you threw a big boulder in it how the water would back up against the boulder and start little rapids and go around it so wherever there's these holding patterns the energy cannot move properly through there because it's holding the shape of the Pain and the trauma so if you could imagine that that is expressed symbolically right however you might imagine that then that basically takes the energy and it entangles it there and the because the judgment or the belief is the guiding force that's creating that pattern it takes the energy and brings it to that frequency so for oftentimes these pains traumas and fears are operating at a frequency below the frequency range of a (Time 0:18:20)

Using Technology to Find and Focus on Specific Book Chapters Key takeaways: - The speaker uses a technique to quickly find a specific chapter in a book by relaxing their eyes and focusing on the page number - Intuitive reading is described as a nutritional protocol - The speaker uses book summary websites to efficiently obtain the core message of popular or mildly interesting books Transcript: Speaker 2 Uh i'll go to the first page of the table of content tense and say okay is the chapter you want me to read on this page no is it on this page no is it on this page yes and then i just say take show me which one in my eye i relax my eyes and all of a sudden my folk soul focuses on page 234 union chapter 10 and so i confirm you want me to read chapter 10 union yes that reminds me of the intuitive eating that we talked about last time as your nutritional protocol intuitive reading i like that the other thing that that i do quite a bit of is i use book really good book summary websites yeah that's like you know for books that i that i know i really want to get the core message out of because Perhaps it's a book that whatever everyone is talking about and so i need to be somewhat informed on it but don't have time to read the entire thing or it's mildly interesting but i i have to pick my battles when it comes to books i'll use uh uh optimize is one website that's mostly philosophy books that's good self-improvement books wonderful pdf downloadable audio optimize but yeah there's a few sources i use one is optimized one is blinkist i use that one blinkist is okay uh one is thinker spelled without an e t h i n k r these are the five sources i (Time 1:44:38)