075: How Proactive Nutrition Can Improve Brain Health with Max Lugavere
The Nick Bare Podcast
Nick Bare
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Max Lugavere is a renowned health and science journalist, filmmaker, podcaster, and New York Times bestselling author.
Max's journey into researching brain diseases began with personal motivation and has led to groundbreaking insights on how nutrition can impact the preventability of brain diseases. This episode discusses how Max has transformed our understanding of brain health by highlighting key risk factors such as genetics, ultra-processed foods, pollution, and chemical exposure.
Now is the time to optimize brain health and reduce the risk of cognitive decline through informed lifestyle choices. Gain expertise and take actionable steps towards a healthier brain and a more informed approach to nutrition and overall well-being.
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Topics:
0:00 Intro
0:38 Welcome
7:25 Working on Max’s documentary for 10 years
11:29 Preventing brain disease
14:58 Improving your genetic risk factor
17:38 Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors
23:23 Different diagnoses of brain disease
27:55 How Max’s research started
38:18 Max documenting the hard moments
51:06 Slowing the degeneration of the brain
57:38 Adjusting your diet for brain health
1:17:08 If it fits your macros diets
1:27:04 Monounsaturated fats
1:29:44 The benefits of saunaing
1:35:08 Little Empty Boxes
TAGS: Max Lugavere, brain health, nutrition, brain diseases, preventability, genetics, ultra-processed foods, pollution, chemical exposure, cognitive decline, health optimization.
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| 0:00.0 | Dementia begins often decades before the presentation of symptoms. |
| 0:04.1 | This is a disease of midlife. |
| 0:06.3 | Like this is a disease of now with symptoms that appear in late life. |
| 0:09.6 | So by the time you're diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or likely any form of dementia for |
| 0:13.7 | that matter you're already essentially in the late stage of that disease. Yes that's |
| 0:18.8 | scary and sad but it's also think, incredibly empowering from the standpoint of prevention, because that means that we have a window of opportunity to intervene, right, to change the course of our destiny. |
| 0:33.0 | All right, ladies and gentlemen, |
| 0:40.0 | today we have Max Lugavir on the podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | What up Nick? |
| 0:44.7 | Welcome. |
| 0:45.7 | How you doing? |
| 0:46.7 | I'm doing great man. |
| 0:47.7 | It's an honor to be here. |
| 0:48.9 | So as I was telling you, I just finished watching your film. |
| 0:52.0 | Me and my wife just finished watching your film, me and my wife just finished watching your film, |
| 0:54.3 | little empty boxes, that releases 627, correct? |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.3 | June 27th, which is at the time of this recording in a few days. |
| 1:04.0 | Like two days, yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | Two days. |
| 1:06.0 | Whoa. |
| 1:07.0 | Incredible film, man. |
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