About this episode

In this solosode, Ben Greenfield discusses various health topics including tinnitus, muscle maintenance, and the effects of eating before bedtime.

Full show notes : https://bengreenfieldlife.com/502 In this solosode, you'll explore how to make peace with tinnitus after acoustic trauma, including the half dozen different root causes that can drive it and the specific supplements and technologies with research behind them , why cardiovascular fitness itself seems to protect your hearing as you age, and whether tattoos are actually as risky as people think, from the heavy metals hiding in colored ink to what a major 2024 study found about tattoos and lymphoma risk. I also break down a new study showing you can get the same heat shock protein boost from heavy resistance training that you would normally only get from a sauna, why stacking a hard workout with a sauna session afterward may give you the best of both worlds, and take a closer look at a study making headlines for supposedly debunking the whole eating before bedtime rule, because the fine print tells a very different story than the headline does. Episode Sponsors: Xtendlife: Most vitamin E supplements contain only alpha-tocopherol, but the more compelling research points to tocotrienols for cardiovascular, brain, and healthy aging support. Xtendlife’s…

People in this episode

Host: Ben Greenfield

Topics covered

• muscle maintenance
• tinnitus
• cardiovascular fitness
• tattoos and health risks
• heat shock proteins
• eating before bedtime

Keywords

• tinnitus
• muscle maintenance
• cardiovascular fitness
• tattoos
• heat shock proteins
• eating before bedtime
• supplements
• acoustic trauma

Sponsors

Xtendlife

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Just Thrive

Books & works: How To Maintain Muscle On A GLP-1, The Truth About Eating “Before Bedtime”

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