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Dhru Purohit Show

10 Cheat Codes to Help You Burn Belly Fat and Add Muscle with Max Lugavere

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth, WHOOP, and Lifeforce. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Max Lugavere to discuss all things weight loss and what Max did to lose 10 lbs of fat in just two months while continuing to build lean muscle. Max Lugavere is a health and science journalist and author of the New York Times best-seller Genius Foods, and The Genius Life. Max is the host of one of the top health and wellness podcasts on iTunes, The Genius Life. He is an international keynote speaker that has given talks at SXSW, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Biohacker Summit in Sweden, and many others. In this episode, Dhru and Max dive into: -The biggest weight loss mistakes (1:55) -Prioritizing protein for fat loss and muscle retention (7:34) -Max’s cheat codes for weight loss (19:29) -Overeating healthy foods as a source of weight gain (25:18) -Using a digital food scale (28:49) -Added fat as a source of excess calories (41:16) -How to simplify cooking at home (46:41) -Examples of how Max reaches 30 grams of protein at every meal (54:32) -Walking as the ultimate fat-burning tool (1:00:24) -Boredom snacking (1:10:42) -The value of the food matrix in weight loss (1:16:12) -Max’s views on society’s narrative around obesity and weight loss (1:21:15) -How not to eat like a snob (1:28:22) -Common sources of overconsumed dietary fat (1:39:00) -Satiety per calorie (1:45:22) -Consistency and patience (1:50:30) Also mentioned in this episode: -Get Max’s Fat Loss Cheat Codes -Max’s Fat Loss Cheat Codes Tweet -The Genius Life Podcast -Sign up for Max’s newsletter For more on Max Lugavere, follow him on Instagram @maxlugavere, Twitter @maxlugavere, YouTube @maxlugavere, and through his website, maxlugavere.com. Cozy Earth are the most comfortable, temperature-regulating, and non-toxic sheets on the market. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code DHRU. WHOOP is a personalized digital fitness tracker and health coaching platform that monitors your physiology 24/7 and provides personalized recommendations based on what your body needs. To get yours, go to join.whoop.com and get your first month free. Lifeforce is a revolutionary new health platform that’s changing the game when it comes to personalized performance and longevity-based action plans. Right now, get 15% off your first purchase at Mylifeforce.com with code DHRU. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At the end of the day, people have the capacity to lose weight.

0:02.7

Whether you're obese or just overweight, you have the same capacity to lose a fat as

0:08.6

anybody else with the right know-how and with the right tools and with the right dedication

0:12.0

and motivation in ultimately discipline.

0:14.3

And so I think it's a big problem to be undermining that.

0:17.1

Today, we're talking about the top 10 cheat codes to help you drop fat, gain muscle and improve

0:24.4

your body composition.

0:26.0

Welcome to the Drew Prod podcast.

0:28.3

Each week, we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest

0:32.1

minds in wellness, medicine and mindset.

0:34.8

And this week's guest is Max Lugovir.

0:37.4

Max is a health and science journalist and the author of the New York Times Best Seller

0:41.4

Genius Foods.

0:42.6

Become smarter, happier and more productive while protecting your brain for life, which

0:47.4

is now published in 10 languages across the globe.

0:51.2

Max is a nutrition expert and on today's podcast, he's sharing with us his top 10 cheat

0:57.3

codes that have helped him and many of his followers drop fat, improve their body composition

1:03.0

and even add muscle.

1:05.7

Now a little bit more about Max.

1:07.6

He regularly appears on the Rachel Ray show, the Doctors and the Doctor A Show.

1:12.3

He's contributed to medscape, vice, fast company, CNN, the Daily Beast and many, many other

1:17.6

outlets.

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