Expanded Bio

Ben Greenfield is a health consultant, speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of a wide variety of books including the widely popular titles Boundless Kitchen, Boundless Parenting, Beyond Training, Boundless, Fit Soul, Spiritual Disciplines Journal, the Boundless Cookbook and Endure. A former collegiate tennis, water polo and volleyball player, bodybuilder, 13-time Ironman triathlete and professional obstacle course racer, Ben has been voted by the NSCA as America’s top Personal Trainer and by Greatist as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness. 

A frequent contributor to health and wellness publications and websites and a highly sought-after speaker, Ben’s understanding of functional exercise, nutrition, and the delicate balance between performance and health has helped thousands of people around the world achieve their goals and improve their quality of life–from high-level CEOs to soccer moms to professional athletes and beyond. Ben also seeks to teach and inspire people to fully experience and joyfully savor all of God’s creation while optimizing their physical health.

Ben is an advisor, investor, and board member of multiple corporations in the health and fitness industry, and is also the co-founder of the nutritional supplements company KION, a nutritional supplements company that combines time-honored superfoods with modern science to allow human beings to achieve peak performance, defy aging, and live an adventurous, fulfilling, joyful and limitless life.

Via online, phone, e-mail and in-person consulting, Ben coaches and trains individuals all over the world for health, longevity, and performance. He also works with corporations and teams for body and brain performance enhancement, and specializes in productivity, faith, family, fat loss, digestion, brain, sleep, hormone, anti-aging, parenting, relationships, mental performance and overall wellness for achieving an optimized life.

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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