Healthspan, Testosterone & The New Age of Nutrition with Benjamin Richardson

Timestamps:
00:00:00 – How air pollution impacts the body beyond the lungs?
00:08:01 – Understanding lifespan vs healthspan vs disease span.
00:11:12 – Modern sedentary lifestyle’s silent damage to healthspan.
00:17:57 – Pulkit’s personal shift from burnout to consistency.
00:20:49 – “Gifts to your future self” approach to healthy habits.
00:27:19 – Benjamin’s five non-negotiables for better healthspan.
00:31:40 – Why junk food is cheap and real food feels expensive.
00:39:23 – What sugar truly is and how we consume it unknowingly.
00:48:52 – Men’s health, Movember, and declining testosterone.
01:03:08 – Busting myths around testosterone and aging.

Episode 175:
What if the real secret to feeling younger wasn’t anti-aging creams, supplements, or 5 a.m. gym routines…

but simply understanding the story your body is trying to tell you?

In this power-packed conversation on We Are Listening!, host Pulkit Garg sits down with Benjamin Richardson, a UK-based Nutritional Therapy Practitioner known for blending science, functional medicine, and real-world lived experience. From London’s winter haze to Delhi’s urban chaos, this episode bridges two worlds struggling with the same enemy: polluted air, processed food, stress-heavy lifestyles, and declining male health.

Benjamin—an athlete, quantified-self experimenter, and expert in male hormones, body composition, gut health, IBS, and muscle-centric medicine, breaks down today’s biggest wellness puzzles with clarity:

Why HEALTHSPAN now matters more than lifespan?
How air quality silently shapes your vitality?
The truth about sugar, its forms, myths & metabolic chaos
Testosterone decline in men: lifestyle, diet & missing conversations
Gut health, inflammation & their deep link to hormonal function
What’s harming your energy, libido, sleep & emotional state and how to reverse it?
Why movement beats exercise, and why consistency beats intensity?

Pulkit also shares raw personal anecdotes—burnout, breathlessness, lifestyle resets, and the simple 15-minute habit that rebuilt his energy after years of chaos.

Together, they explore practical tools: circadian alignment, food planning, frozen vs fresh myths, cooking skills, batch prepping, sugar resets, movement “snacks,” long-term habit sequencing, and how to build a relationship with your future self.

If you’ve ever felt tired despite sleeping well, confused about nutrition trends, or concerned about hormonal changes—this conversation will feel like a breath of clean air.

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