Blake Griffin: Microwaves are TERRIBLE for you | Forward Progress

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1:01Blake Griffin:Hey, it's Thursday, which means we're coming at you with a short feel-good story from a past guest. Hope you enjoyed the clip. This week, NBA star Blake Griffin.

1:14Blake Griffin:I was talking to your brother yesterday, and he was telling me you geek out on, like, anything nutrition-related. You obviously have this podcast, The Pursuit of Healthiness. on the health and wellness front outside of the obvious what really interests you I sort of

1:33Graham Bensinger:recently have been super into biohacking aspect of health and wellness just because I think there's so much potential there for like people to literally change the course of their lives like dramatically you know people are going to start living longer I think when you say reverse aging people kind of like go nuts because it sounds so insane but you'll be able to slow down aging i think that's so interesting like the biomechanics of things and and cell and dna breakdown and and just how how thing how modern medicine hopefully can move forward in what ways are you starting to get into that honestly just research not not necessarily doing it myself yeah i kind of have to be pretty careful with like you know what i put in my body i never want to take something that I haven't fully researched and known, will know what's going to be on a drug test or not.

2:25Graham Bensinger:So I stay pretty safe in terms of things that I take, but I have started to listen to a lot of different podcasts or books or articles or studies on all that stuff.

2:37Blake Griffin:But on that front and what you put into your body, tell about these food sensitivity tests you'll take and how that was also partly responsible for reducing the amount of eggs you eat. Early on, I would take these food sensitivity tests, and one year, it was like, eggs was in the red.

2:52Graham Bensinger:I'm sorry, anything that's in the red, like, you have to sort of, like, really cut out of your diet or really reduce. And I eat eggs every morning. And so it kind of changed my thought process. And what I learned over time wasn't necessarily that, like, oh, you're just born with this sensitivity. It's that your stomach produces acid to break down these foods. and when you eat something a lot, it's trying to produce enough acid to break down this certain type of food, and when it can't break it all down, some of that seeps through your gut. That is what makes you sort of sensitive in, like, a very dumbed-down way of, like, explaining it, I guess.

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4:34Blake Griffin:The deal with you in microwaves is what...

4:37Graham Bensinger:It's terrible for your food. Not only are you taking a good amount of the nutrition out of food, but you're also putting things in that I don't think were necessarily meant to, or doing things to the food that I don't think were necessarily meant to be digesting or putting into our bodies. If I had my way, I wouldn't even have a microwave in my house, but I have one.

5:02Blake Griffin:So you grew up in Oklahoma in the 90s, and yet your mom was having you drink, like, green barley even back then. So she was well ahead of her time on all fronts.

5:15Graham Bensinger:I always described my mom as, like, as being close to a nutritionist without having the certification. Like, she was always reading, like, a nutrition book, always, you know, trying new things. We would go to the health food store growing up. We had, like, the healthy cereals. Our house was the house that friends didn't want to spend the night at because of the meals the next morning.

5:38Blake Griffin:But, like, explain just how strict you are with your diet and season, and then how, over time, you've learned the need to balance it and give yourself flexibility in the offseason.

5:51Graham Bensinger:Early on, like, during the season, I was so strict, and then I realized that I had to, like, sort of pick and choose my spots. If I come home after a game and I'm just tired and I want to eat pizza, I'll eat pizza. I never say, oh, I don't eat any dairy or I don't eat any gluten. I try to limit some of those things sometimes. Every now and then I have to just do what you want to do with your diet just to sort of keep myself sane.

6:16Blake Griffin:That's it for now, but if you're hungry for more in-depth interviews, head over to youtube.com slash Graham Bensinger. you can dive into our deep library, which includes more than 2 ,000 clips spanning 12 plus years. Thanks again for listening.