Expanded Bio

Ben Greenfield is a health consultant, speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of a wide variety of books, including the popular titles Boundless, Boundless Parenting, Boundless Kitchen, Beyond Training, Fit Soul, Spiritual Disciplines Journal, Boundless Cookbook, and Endure. 

Raised in rural North Idaho, Ben was homeschooled from kindergarten through twelfth grade. He was a complete nerd—president of the chess club, a violinist for 13 years, an avid fantasy writer, and a lifelong bookworm.

Graduating high school at 15 and starting college at 16, he studied anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, pharmaceuticals, microbiology, biochemistry, and nutrition—earning a 4.0 GPA and graduating at age 20 as the top senior at the University of Idaho. He completed internships at Duke University and in the NFL while working as a bartender, trainer, nutritionist, and coach. During college, Ben also served as president of the triathlon club, played for the men’s tennis and volleyball teams, competed in water polo, and was a 215-pound bodybuilder at 3% body fat.

Ben was accepted into six medical schools but chose instead to pursue a master’s degree in exercise physiology and biomechanics. In 2005, he dove headfirst into the fitness world, partnering with physicians to open a series of personal training studios, gyms, and physiology labs across northern Idaho and eastern Washington. In 2008, he was voted America’s top personal trainer.

While building his brick-and-mortar fitness business, Ben competed as one of the top-ranked amateur triathletes in the world, completing more than 120 races and 13 Ironman triathlons. He raced for the elite Team Timex multisport team, won a gold medal for the USA in long-course triathlon, and led squads of swim, bike, and run enthusiasts on guided adventures through Hawaii, Thailand, Japan, and beyond.

After becoming the father of twin sons, Ben shifted his focus toward writing, speaking, and consulting. He launched one of the world’s first fitness podcasts (Boundless Life), became a New York Times bestselling author of Beyond Training and over a dozen other books, and started a blog that now reaches over a million readers each month. 

While making a name for himself as a relentless self-experimenter and biohacker, Ben became a professional obstacle course racer; completed the coveted Spartan Delta; trained with the Navy SEALs; competed across the globe in open-water swims, mountain runs, and adventure races; won multiple USA bowhunting competitions; and appeared on some of the planet’s toughest reality TV shows.

In 2013 and 2014, Ben was named one of the world’s top 100 most influential people in health and fitness. By 2015, he was coaching top CEOs, chefs, biohackers, poker players, and elite athletes from the UFC, NHL, NBA, and NFL—all while advising and investing in leading companies in the health, fitness, and nutrition industries. In 2016, he joined Spartan SGX as a certified coach.

Ben’s expertise in functional fitness, nutrition, and balanced performance has helped thousands—from CEOs and professional athletes to everyday individuals—optimize their health and quality of life. He is passionate about inspiring others to fully experience and joyfully savor God’s creation while pursuing peak physical well-being.

Ben is a co-founder, advisor, investor, and board member for multiple leading companies in the health and fitness industry. Among them is Kion, an elite nutritional supplement brand that blends time-honored superfoods with modern science to help people achieve peak performance, defy aging, and live adventurous, fulfilling, and limitless lives. Along with esteemed tech executive Caleb Applegate, he also launched LIFE Network—a next-generation wellness platform and community that connects members with world-class experts, group coaching at an accessible price, curated health content, and a global network designed to empower transformation across mind, body, spirit, and community.

Through TRIUMPH Coaching, Ben and his team train individuals worldwide for health, longevity, and performance through online, phone, email, and in-person consulting. He also works with corporations and teams on body and brain performance enhancement, specializing in productivity, faith, family, fat loss, digestion, brain health, sleep, hormones, anti-aging, parenting, relationships, mental performance, and overall wellness to achieve an optimized life.

In addition to multiple daytime and reality TV competitions, he has appeared in and contributed to Forbes, Men’s Health, Huffington Post, Fox News, Triathlete Magazine, LAVA Magazine, and Endurance Planet, and has been featured in WebMD, Prevention, Shape, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Running, Inside Triathlon, NBC, Fox, Entheos Academy, CreativeLIVE, MindBodyGreen, Udemy, Veria Live TV, CBS Sports, MindValley University, and Outside Magazine.

As a public speaker on longevity, anti-aging, biohacking, fitness, nutrition, cognition, positive psychology, motivation, and spirituality, Ben has hosted several top-ranked health and fitness podcasts on iTunes, most notably Boundless Life. 

He has also presented at multi-day conferences around the world in locations such as Sweden, Finland, Dubai, London, and Thailand, and has been a keynote lecturer at private financial and corporate events, the Hawaii Ironman World Championships Medical Conference, Biohacker Summits, PaleoFX, MindValley, the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, the Academy of Regenerative Practices, CalJam, FitCon, TEDx, The Ancestral Health Symposium, Runga, CASI, and numerous private health retreats.

Whether your goal is to become a complete mental athlete with a flawless brain and nervous system, achieve an ideal body that performs beautifully inside and out, or build lasting health, happiness, and longevity, Ben combines years of real-world experience with ancestral wisdom and modern science to make those goals a reality.

You can get everything you need now at BenGreenfieldLife.com.

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Alternate Bio

Ben Greenfield is globally renowned as a leading biohacker and edgy, controversial, but trusted voice in the realm of self-optimization and human performance. He has garnered international acclaim for his role as a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, podcaster, America’s top personal trainer and leading authority in the realm of health, fitness, and avant-garde wellness methodologies. Greenfield’s pioneering endeavors span an extensive array of domains, encompassing exercise physiology, nutrition, supplementation, sleep refinement, mindfulness, and the strategic fusion of cutting-edge technologies to optimize human potential. As an adviser to top celebrities, athletes, executives and entrepreneurs, his distinction as the preeminent figure in the field is a testament to his unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries of conventional health paradigms and his relentless pursuit of harnessing the latest scientific breakthroughs to empower individuals on their journey toward peak performance and comprehensive well-being. Ben also tends to turn heads with his unique approach, because he offers up a unique blend of ancestral wisdom and modern science, combined with fatherhood and family, hunting, foraging and cooking, spirituality and even urban farming and homesteading – all while ruthlessly using himself as a self-professed guinea pig and immersive journalist to test and report on the most advanced life extension, biohacking and scientific upgrades to the human biology and environment.

Credentials

Ben hosts the highly popular fitness, nutrition, and wellness website BenGreenfieldLife.com, a site with over a million monthly visitors, featuring articles, podcasts, and product reviews from Ben. In addition to multiple daytime and reality TV show competitions, Ben has also appeared in and been a contributor to Forbes, Men’s Health, Huffington Post, Fox News, Triathlete magazine, LAVA magazine, Endurance Planet, and has been featured in WebMD, Prevention magazine, Shape magazine, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Running magazine, Inside Triathlon, NBC, Fox, Entheos Academy, CreativeLIVE, MindBodyGreen, Udemy, Veria Live TV, CBS Sports, MindValley University, Outside Magazine, and beyond.

As a public speaker on longevity, anti-aging, biohacking, fitness, nutrition, cognition, positive psychology, motivation and spirituality, Ben has hosted several top ranked fitness and health podcasts in iTunes, including most notably the Ben Greenfield Life show. Ben speaks around the world and in addition to presenting multi-day conferences in global hotspots such as Sweden, Finland, Dubai, London, and Thailand, he has been a keynote lecturer at private financial and corporate events, the Hawaii Ironman World Championships Medical Conference, Biohacker’s Summits, PaleoFX, MindValley, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Academy of Regenerative Practices, CalJam, FitCon, Tedx, The Ancestral Health Symposium, Runga, CASI and numerous other private health retreats.

Ben’s mission is to serve those who, like himself, desire to live life to the fullest, experience deep meaning, purpose, happiness, fulfillment, and connection, explore and enjoy every nook and cranny of God’s great creation, and discover how to achieve full optimization of mind, body, and spirit with boundless energy.

Ben lives in the Inland Northwest with his wife, Jessa, and twin sons, River and Terran, where he exercises, fiction, guitar, ukulele, spearfishing, bowhunting, pickleball, plant foraging, cooking and savoring all of God’s creation.

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