Muscle Intelligence — Longevity, Training & Human Performance with Ben Pakulski
You don't have to decline. Your body is more capable than you think. This podcast will show you how. Muscle Intelligence is the podcast for high-performing men who want to build muscle, optimize hormones, extend their healthspan, and maintain full cognitive and physical output as they age. Ben Pakulski spent 25 years as an IFBB Pro Bodybuilder, coach, and researcher, working with and learning from the world's leading experts in longevity, performance medicine, testosterone optimization,…
Most men trying to change their body are shopping for a tactic. A cleaner diet, a better split, a smarter supplement stack, and lately a peptide protocol they found online. Ben has coached enough high performers to know how that story ends, because he lived a version of it himself. He was an obese fifteen-year-old who decided he was going to compete at the Mr. Olympia, and the obsessive,…
This episode is sponsored by Super Patch: https://bit.ly/misuperpatch Apply for Muscle Intelligence Coaching: https://muscleintelligence.com/apply You cleaned up your diet, cut the carbs, and your LDL went up. Your doctor circled it in red and reached for a statin. Dr. Anthony Jay spent five years doing heart disease research full time at Boston University Medical School — running autopsies,…
Work with the Muscle Intelligence Team: https://muscleintelligence.com/apply Most men who suspect their testosterone is low get a blood test, get told the number is normal, and get sent home still exhausted, still soft in the middle, still wondering what happened to the guy they used to be. Dr. Abraham Morgentaler has spent thirty-five years proving that those men are not imagining it. He is a…
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Book your free Transformation Call → https://www.muscleintelligence.com/apply The story you believe about aging isn't just a mindset — it's a biological input. Dr. Ellen Langer, the first woman ever tenured in psychology at Harvard (at 31) and author of The Mindful Body, has spent 50 years running experiments that sound impossible until you see the data: hotel housekeepers who lost real weight…
Want to work with Muscle Intelligence? Apply Now Most men try to out-discipline their emotions and wonder why they still snap, freeze, or stew at the worst possible moment. Donald Robertson, the cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist who wrote the book on thinking like a Roman emperor, has spent three decades proving there's a better operating system. Drawing on the same Stoic playbook that ran an…
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Try my focus stack: https://www.troscriptions.com/muscle Work with me: https://www.muscleintelligence.com/apply In 30 days, Ben Pakulski embarks on the hardest training camp of his life. In this solo episode, Ben opens up Peak Performance Season with the exact 30-day protocol he's running to prepare: how he's rebuilding mobility, stability, strength, and endurance to become the best athlete he's…
Follow my annual testing protocol: https:// www.muscleintelligence.com/testing My favorite focus stack: https://www.troscriptions.com/muscle My latest biohacking experiment (drug free): http://bit.ly/4tH6jJI Most men over 40 have been sold the same story: decline is inevitable. You get softer. Your energy drops. Your joints hurt. Your testosterone falls. Your confidence fades. And slowly, you…