Ben Greenfield
guest·12 claims·1 episode·updated Jul 8, 2026
12 fact-checked claims across 1 episode on the Joe Rogan Experience. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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Joe Rogan Experience #1069: Ben Greenfield, fact-checked
12 claims by Ben Greenfield·aired Jan 28, 2018
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- JRE #1069▶ 1:46
“But it goes into this idea of what are called voltage-gated calcium channels on your cell membrane, and those actually get affected by Wi-Fi. And apparently yo…”
Greenfield claims, citing a book on EMF, that Wi-Fi affects voltage-gated calcium channels in cell membranes, altering the electrochemical balance across the membrane and implying Wi-Fi exposure is harmful.
- JRE #1069▶ 2:11:06
“there was a little cool little anecdote from that study too, where they found that mosquitoes actually have like, like they learn. If you swat at the mosquito,…”
Greenfield claims a study found that mosquitoes 'learn' to avoid a particular person after being swatted at.
- JRE #1069▶ 2:38
“there's this cat up at University of Washington named Dr. Gerald Pollack, and he has done this research that shows like in plants or vessels, like blood vessel…”
Greenfield cites Dr. Gerald Pollack's research on 'exclusion zone' (structured) water in vessels and plants as the basis for claiming that 'structuring' drinking water improves cellular hydration.
- JRE #1069▶ 30:48
“And so they've done these studies on testicular and sperm production. And they found that there's a wavelength. It's like 600 to 800 nanometers wavelength of l…”
Greenfield claims studies show that exposing the testicles to 600-800 nanometer red/near-infrared light for 5 to 20 minutes daily boosts sperm production and (per his follow-up) testosterone via stimulation of Leydig cells.
- JRE #1069▶ 1:30:59
“the prevailing research and the literature suggests that you can burn about 1.0 grams of fat per minute during exercise. Like that would be about how much fat …”
Greenfield cites a named 'FASTER study' as showing high-fat dieters can burn 1.5 to 1.7 grams of fat per minute during exercise, versus a supposed 1.0 g/min ceiling in the general literature, with no loss in performance.
- JRE #1069▶ 2:10:43
“I read a study this morning of gene editing mosquitoes now, like they're using CRISPR technology to make the mosquitoes less likely to bite you.”
Greenfield states he read a study that morning about using CRISPR gene-editing technology on mosquitoes to make them less likely to bite humans.
- JRE #1069▶ 27:37
“It's technically not legal for someone to inject you with your own stem cells into your bloodstream, but if you get your stem cells extracted and they're store…”
Greenfield claims that while a clinic legally cannot inject a person's own stored stem cells into their bloodstream, it is legal for the person to inject the cells into themselves after the clinic mails the cells to their home.
- JRE #1069▶ 5:37
“you use a reverse osmosis water filter because it's a really, really fine filtration. But it takes everything out. Like, it takes the bad stuff and the good st…”
Greenfield claims reverse osmosis water filtration strips out both contaminants and beneficial minerals, implying municipal tap water without such filtration (or unfiltered use) is linked to a neighborhood cancer cluster from golf course runoff.
- JRE #1069▶ 35:21
“So this is all based on Chinese medicine principles.”
Greenfield explains that withholding ejaculation during orgasm (retaining 'life force'/jing) while still producing oxytocin and testosterone responses is grounded in Chinese medicine, implying ejaculation causes a meaningful loss of vitality.
- JRE #1069▶ 1:51:07
“you're getting exactly 10 micrograms of LSD and about 10 to 20 micrograms, like one to two dropper bottles full, that would be considered a micro dose for most…”
Greenfield states a specific microgram dosage (10-20 micrograms) that constitutes a standard LSD microdose for most people.
- JRE #1069▶ 1:05:59
“your spleen compresses and you produce more erythropoietin, more red blood cells. Same thing that you produce, actually, if you sauna, like if you do a workout…”
Greenfield claims that post-exercise sauna use for 30 minutes triggers erythropoietin (EPO) production equivalent to using the banned performance-enhancing drug EPO.
- JRE #1069▶ 50:02
“There's this whole idea that like your root chakra, like your fourth chakra, your heart chakra vibrates at 528 hertz.”
Greenfield describes a claim that specific chakras vibrate at particular hertz frequencies (e.g. 528 Hz for the heart chakra), used to justify frequency-based sound therapy in his sauna sessions.