Joe Rogan Experience #1069 - Ben Greenfield
Joe Rogan (host), Ben Greenfield (guest)
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Ben Greenfield, Joe Rogan Experience #1069 - Ben Greenfield explores ben Greenfield Explores Extreme Biohacks, Bowhunting, Ketosis, and Sex Tech Joe Rogan and Ben Greenfield dive into an ultra-eclectic conversation covering off‑grid living, biohacking, fitness tech, sexual performance experiments, hunting, and recovery strategies.
Ben Greenfield Explores Extreme Biohacks, Bowhunting, Ketosis, and Sex Tech
Joe Rogan and Ben Greenfield dive into an ultra-eclectic conversation covering off‑grid living, biohacking, fitness tech, sexual performance experiments, hunting, and recovery strategies.
Greenfield describes his low-EMF, solar-powered home, complex water filtration/structuring, and his use of wearables and HRV to guide training and manage WiFi exposure.
He details radical self-experiments with stem cells, PRP, shockwave therapy, infrared “dick lights,” and gas-station pills to enhance sexual function, as well as peptides, cryotherapy, and heat for injury recovery.
They also explore ketogenic dieting for athletes, spearfishing and bowhunting, sauna/cold immersion routines, psychedelics, and how individualized biology should drive health and performance decisions.
Key Takeaways
Use HRV to guide training instead of relying on soreness.
Heart rate variability reflects nervous system recovery; high HRV indicates readiness for intense training, while persistently low HRV suggests you should back off to avoid illness and injury—even if muscles don’t feel sore.
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Be cautious but systematic with EMF/WiFi exposure.
Greenfield hardwires his home, avoids WiFi/Bluetooth at night, and uses kill switches, noting both emerging literature on cellular effects and his own lower HRV with high exposure; simple steps like turning off routers at night are low-cost experiments.
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Short, high-intensity isometric training can build strength efficiently.
Using a force plate to push/pull maximally for 30–60+ seconds in the hardest joint angles (e. ...
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Cold and heat therapies should be timed strategically around workouts.
Post‑workout heat (sauna) appears to enhance training adaptations and EPO production, whereas immediate cold immersion/cryo can blunt the hormetic response; brief cold later in the day or before sleep can help by lowering core temperature without negating gains.
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Ketogenic diets can work for endurance—but must be individualized.
A year‑long study showed keto‑adapted endurance athletes maintained performance and glycogen while burning more fat, yet Greenfield’s thyroid and testosterone suffered on very low carb with high training; he now front‑loads fats/greens and saves carbs for post‑evening workout.
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Radical interventions (stem cells, PRP, peptides) show promise but carry unknown long-term risks.
Greenfield reports improved erections, orgasm quality, and injury healing from dick stem cells, shockwave, PRP, and peptides like BPC‑157/TB‑500, but repeatedly stresses these are experimental, lightly studied, and potentially dangerous despite impressive short-term efficacy.
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Recovery and resilience benefit from deliberate discomfort and environmental variation.
His daily routines—sauna with stretching/breathwork, cold plunges, breath-hold walks, and free diving—are framed as ways to train the nervous system, build mental toughness, and leverage hormesis rather than just chasing comfort.
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Notable Quotes
“I do a lot of immersive journalism, a lot of self‑experimentation, a lot of guinea pig type stuff.”
— Ben Greenfield
“Musculoskeletal soreness or discomfort is not necessarily the best indicator of whether you're fully recovered. You have to test the nervous system too.”
— Ben Greenfield
“If I can live a longer time and feel better and produce less reactive oxygen species by doing this versus the high‑carbohydrate intake, then why not do it?”
— Ben Greenfield
“You just feel focused but you also have high levels of energy. I felt like my cells had both forms of fuel they'd ever need, both ketones and glucose.”
— Ben Greenfield
“I just wish there was a place that you could go that was very comprehensive, that the average person could go to where they could do all this stuff for you and break it down for you.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
How should an average, non-elite person prioritize among all these biohacks without getting overwhelmed or wasting money?
Joe Rogan and Ben Greenfield dive into an ultra-eclectic conversation covering off‑grid living, biohacking, fitness tech, sexual performance experiments, hunting, and recovery strategies.
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Where is the ethical line between beneficial self‑experimentation and irresponsible risk-taking when long-term data are lacking?
Greenfield describes his low-EMF, solar-powered home, complex water filtration/structuring, and his use of wearables and HRV to guide training and manage WiFi exposure.
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Given your thyroid and testosterone issues on strict keto, what concrete markers should athletes monitor if they attempt low-carb, high-fat diets?
He details radical self-experiments with stem cells, PRP, shockwave therapy, infrared “dick lights,” and gas-station pills to enhance sexual function, as well as peptides, cryotherapy, and heat for injury recovery.
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How do you separate placebo effects from real physiological changes in practices like EMF avoidance, structured water, or infrared genital light therapy?
They also explore ketogenic dieting for athletes, spearfishing and bowhunting, sauna/cold immersion routines, psychedelics, and how individualized biology should drive health and performance decisions.
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If comprehensive, personalized testing becomes cheap and accessible, how do you imagine it will change mainstream medicine, training, and nutrition advice?
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Transcript Preview
Pack oats are supposed to be amazing.
So he's, like, getting- Yeah.
They hang out with you.
Yeah.
Five, four, three, two... Ben Greenfield, ladies and gentlemen. Joe Rogan Live.
Bo-boom.
Hey.
Yo.
So it's been a lot of fun hanging out with you for the last 44 minutes.
And that's a sick game you have out there.
Yeah, it's pretty fun, right? It's very addictive.
I need to build a really, really big, like, 67-yard-long living room to-
(laughs)
... to put my big screen in now.
Yeah, that thing is crazy. This, we were talking about this game called Techno Hunt that we were just playing.
Yeah.
So dude, you, you are an interesting fucking guy. You do a lot of weird shit.
Uh, th- uh, no- uh, thank you, I think.
Yeah. No, it's good.
I don't know.
Yes. It's, it's a compliment when I say-
I'll take it.
Yeah, interesting is a good thing. But your, um, like, y- your background, you were just telling me, this is very fascinating. Like, you, you live way the fuck out in the middle of nowhere, right?
Well, it's ki- it's kinda ... I mean, it's Spokane.
Right.
Spokane ha- I mean, we have, like, a theater.
But you're off the grid.
And we have restaurants.
You have a theater.
Like, there, there are actual people there.
Two restaurants.
Yeah. Well, there's a theater. There, there's a little five-and-dime store and a general store.
(laughs)
Uh ...
Spokane's a normal place.
It's pretty normal.
But you're, you're totally off the grid.
Yeah. Well, up at our house, we are.
We are.
You know, we're, we're s- solar panels-
Right.
... and well, and the way I have it set up is we eased in power from the local municipal power, but if that goes out, then it hits the solar inverters and we're full solar.
Oh.
So then there's, there's, like, a battery panel in the garage that stores the solar.
Right.
'Cause we're on a, we're on, like, a north-facing slope so you get sun from 10:00 to 2:00.
Right, right.
So we can't collect a lot of solar, but you store it in the battery so it's, it's there.
So you gotta be-
And-
... very judicious with-
Yeah.
... your laptop use.
Yeah, yeah. Well, we, uh-
Yeah, if you wanna go off the grid totally.
It's, it's, it's a stupid home. So there's, there's no WiFi. There's no Bluetooth. So everything's li- it's, it's hardwired metal-shielded ethernet cable. That's through the whole house. 'Cause I don't like to have, like, WiFi signals bouncing around. I just don't-
Really?
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