011: Max Lugavere - Feeding Your Mind: How to Eat to Optimize and Protect Brain Function
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that over 40% of Alzheimer's disease cases have one main cause?
Today's guest will tell you what it is (hint: it has to do with nutrition).
In today's episode, famous science journalist and brain food expert Max Lugavere joins me to talk about how we can protect our brains from dementia and boost our cognitive performance with proper nutrition.
He also explains the truth behind the onset of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and how we can easily prevent them.
Max is a filmmaker, TV personality, and science journalist passionate about brain health. He's a contributor to major publications including Medscape, Vice, Fast Company, and the Daily Beast.
His latest book, Genius Foods, breaks down all the research he's done over the years on brain health, cognition, diet, and lifestyle habits.
Listen in to find out how you can protect and supercharge your brain through your food choices.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, stranger. Thank you for tuning in to the keto-mancer's podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:09.9 | Dr. Anthony Gustin, and this week joining me is Max Lugovier. Max is a pretty crazy story that |
| 0:15.9 | he shares with us on the podcast today. He chats about how he had a family member go through a |
| 0:19.8 | neurodegenerative disease where he felt helpless, so basically dedicated his entire life to |
| 0:25.3 | research and why this stuff happens. To no surprise, he found that the nutrition was a huge |
| 0:29.9 | cause, and so we chat about tons of different stuff, but how you can use a keto-generic diet |
| 0:34.1 | for brain health. And in this one of these conversations that I learn a ton every time I talk to Max |
| 0:38.6 | and this time is no exception. So I hope you guys learned something new and enjoyed the show. |
| 0:43.7 | Before we get to the episode, I wanted to chat about a sponsor, Perfect Keto. Perfect Keto is |
| 0:47.9 | all about making a keto-generic diet healthy and accessible. Whether you're reading all of our online |
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| 1:00.8 | hey aren't you the founder of Perfect Keto? Yep, that's right, and all of my insanely high standards |
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| 1:25.4 | All right, Max. Hey, thanks for being on the show, man. That's it. We're rolling. Yeah. |
| 1:31.2 | You were like the king of tidbits and most digestible information. Every time I go to your |
| 1:38.4 | Instagram page, I go, there's four things I didn't know. I don't know if you hone this with |
| 1:43.3 | ME, you do a lot of stuff like with Dr. Ollischale, things like that. You're obviously very passionate |
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