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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1777: Cooking Oils That Can Make You Sick With Max Lugavere

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with Max Lugavere about the potential detrimental health effects of highly processed vegetable oils and his new cookbook, Genius Kitchen.

  • Is canola oil really that bad for your body? (2:51)
  • How damaged fat damages you. (5:53)
  • In a context of a calorie surplus, how much does this conversation change? (11:18)
  • How the dose makes the poison. (15:45)
  • What are the best oils to cook at high temperatures? (26:47)
  • How our policies have made our diets worse. (28:41)
  • Genius Kitchen: Fighting fire with fire. (31:28)
  • The misconception that healthy food doesn't taste good. (37:20)
  • Why does Max choose to avoid artificial sweeteners? (41:00)
  • Some of Max's favorite recipes from the book. (45:03)
  • Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. (47:24)
  • Selling the benefits and value of organ meats. (49:47)
  • The importance of being evidence-based and not evidence-bound. (55:45)
  • What does Max supplement with? (1:01:14)
  • The health benefits of eating at home. (1:08:10)
  • Connecting the signals how food makes you feel after you eat it. (1:11:59)
  • More valuable gems from Max's new book. (1:14:50)

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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, hop, mind, hop with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:17.0

This is Mind Pump, right?

0:19.0

In today's episode, we had one of our favorite people in the podcast.

0:23.0

Max Lugavir, we've had him on a few times before.

0:25.0

He's one of our favorite guests.

0:26.0

He's a great author.

0:29.0

In fact, he just wrote a book called Genius Kitchen, which includes over 100 easy and delicious recipes to make your brain sharp, body strong, and your taste buds.

0:39.0

Super happy.

0:40.0

Now, in this episode, we talked to Max about inflammatory cooking oils, healthy cooking oils, ways to make food taste good, so that you can enjoy healthy foods and actually compete with those heavily processed garbage foods that are out there that make us

0:55.0

fat, unhealthy, and unhappy.

0:57.0

Great episode.

0:58.0

Again, one of our favorite guests.

0:59.0

I can't say enough about him.

1:01.0

Go check his book out, Genius Kitchen, and you can find them on social media at Max Lugavir.

1:08.0

By the way, this episode is brought to you by one of our new sponsors, Nutressense.

1:12.0

Nutressense is a company that uses continual glucose monitors to monitor how different foods affect your blood sugar.

1:21.0

Now, it's more than that, right? So they have an app that you attach this to, and you can work with people through the app to figure out what diet works best for your body.

1:30.0

You know, here's what's interesting about nutrition.

1:32.0

Individuals all kind of react differently to different diets.

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