1230: Surviving & Thriving in a Toxic World With Max Lugavere
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with good friend and author Max Lugavere about his newest book, The Genius Life.
- Health is important to everybody. (1:41)
- Is Max getting into ‘tiffs’ over social media? (3:40)
- Making the case for organic vs non-organic. (6:24)
- Endocrine disruptors and their effect on our hormones. (9:45)
- The importance of seeking out the opposing view from your own. (14:08)
- Why is vegans' anger so misplaced? (17:50)
- The rising popularity of the carnivore diet. (21:30)
- Don’t Fork Around! The value of dietary protein. (24:00)
- Do not be afraid of a good quality salt! (27:05)
- How ultra-processed foods highjack your hunger levels. (31:34)
- What you eat vs when you eat and its impact on your circadian rhythm. (32:29)
- Are your lights carcinogenic to your health? (37:15)
- The Vigger Trigger. The importance of thermal exercise. (43:06)
- Chronic use of anticholinergic drugs and the dangers to our body. (52:05)
- What’s the problem with heating plastic containers in the microwave? (54:38)
- Fish consumption and mercury toxicity. (56:34)
- Taking caution when taking Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs). (58:45)
- Knowledge is power. (1:02:17)
- The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary. (1:07:07)
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- February Promotion: MAPS Split ½ off! **Code “SPLIT50” at checkout**
- Pre-order ‘The Genius Life’ by Max Lugavere
- Leader of Largest US Organic Food Fraud Gets 10-Year Term
- Mind Pump 990: Max Lugavere on the Dangers of Plastics, Building a Social Media Page, Coping with Loss & MORE
- BPA levels in humans may be much higher than previously thought
- Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life - Book by Max Lugavere and Paul Grewal
- Mind Pump 1227: The 5 Most Important Supplements to Take
- Sodium Intake and All-Cause Mortality over 20 Years in the Trials of Hypertension Prevention
- Redmond Real Salt
- ‘Ultraprocessed’ foods may make you eat more, clinical trial suggests
- Lux Light Meter Free
- University of Eastern Finland: Frequent Sauna use Associated With Lower Cardiovascular Death Rate in men and Women
- Visit Infrared Sauna for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners!
- Do Ibuprofen and NSAIDs Affect Athletic Performance?
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- Mind Pump Free Resources
Featured Guest/People Mentioned
- Max Lugavere (@maxlugavere) Instagram
- Website
- Podcast
- Ellen Vora, MD (@ellenvoramd) Instagram
Layne Norton, PhD (@biolayne) Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Pump, we got to interview one of our favorite favorite guests, our good friend, Max Lugovier. |
| 0:21.0 | Now he's a filmmaker, health and science journalist, and he's the author of the International Sensation and New York Times Best Seller, |
| 0:28.0 | Genius Foods, becomes smarter, happier, and more productive while protecting your brain for life. |
| 0:34.0 | This has been published in eight languages around the globe. |
| 0:37.0 | He also hosts a very, very well-received podcast called The Genius Life, and he just wrote a new book that will be coming out in March called The Genius Life. |
| 0:47.0 | So if you've read his first book, you're going to love his second book. |
| 0:51.0 | In fact, you can pre-order it if you go to GeniusLifebook.com, go there, pre-order the book, you will not be disappointed. |
| 1:00.0 | Again, he's one of our favorite, favorite guests. |
| 1:02.0 | Before the episode starts, I'm going to remind you all that Maps Split is 50% off. |
| 1:10.0 | Now Maps Split is the Body Building Inspired Program. |
| 1:14.0 | It's six days a week in the gym, it's hardcore, it's serious, but if you really want to shape and sculpt your body, |
| 1:20.0 | and you have some experience working out, we highly recommend it. |
| 1:25.0 | Again, it's 50% off. Here's how you get the discount. Go to MapsSplit.com, that's MAPS-SP-L-I-T.com, and use the code Split50-SP-L-I-T50, no space for the discount. |
| 1:39.0 | You are for sure the most handsome of us. |
| 1:42.0 | We're not even going to... |
| 1:43.0 | We're not even going to... |
| 1:44.0 | We're not even going to clip over to us. We're just going to run Max's voice or face the episode. |
| 1:47.0 | No, I'm going to have some fun with this opening here. |
| 1:50.0 | Your audience is probably predominantly male, though. |
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