What's up family it's episode 106 of the Genius Life can you believe it?

What's going on everybody welcome to another episode of the Genius Life in your host Max Lugavira Filmmaker

Health and Science Journalist and the author of the New York Times best-selling book Genius Foods and the Genius Life.

On this episode of the show I'm super excited to talk all things brain health and specifically mental health.

My guest for this episode of the show is Dr. Daniel Aiman who's a very well-known psychiatrist.

He has health clinics across the United States and he sees over 4,000 patients each month.

His breakthrough public television programs on various issues of brain and mental health have aired over 80,000 times and have been watched by millions of people.

He's also a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is a pioneer in brain-specced imaging.

His research on brain imaging was ranked number 19 out of the top 100 stories in science in 2015 by Discover magazine and he is also a number one New York Times best-selling author.

So I'm pumped to have this chat with him in which he reveals the 11 major risk factors that steal your mind.

These are featured in his brand new book The End of Mental Illness which is a national bestseller which you should definitely go and check out.

It came out last month and I'm excited because this guy is super smart, super compassionate and knows his stuff.

So if you have a friend or loved one with any kind of mood disorder or if you struggle with mood yourself or you have any kind of any type of brain health issue, I would humbly submit that you listen closely to this episode of the show and share it with your friends and loved ones.

Before we plunge head first into this chat, I want to give a shout out to the sponsor of this episode of the show and that is Birch Benders.

Birch Benders makes a line of super delicious pancake and waffle mixes that can be used for a lot more than making pancakes and waffles.

True story the other day I was making a yet another quarantine meal with my brothers and my dad and we decided to make super healthy grass-fed meatballs.

We had sort of like an Italian themed vibe to the dinner and obviously I'm not going to use actual bread in my meatball recipe.

So what I did instead of buying almond flour or you know one of these like substitutes that you'll see mentioned if you Google like paleo meatball recipes.

I remembered that I had an open bag of Birch Benders paleo pancake and waffle mix in my cabinet and what I did was I used some of that in the meatballs.

I basically used two pounds of fresh grass-fed 100% grass-fed ground beef and about two thirds of a cup of the Birch Benders pancake and waffle mix.

And then I threw in all the usual seasonings Italian seasoning and salt and spices and things like that pepper garlic lots of garlic.

And they came out amazing they came out super fluffy so great option for you know making meat dishes but of course they also make incredible pancakes and to make them all you have to do is add water.

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