196: The Death of Bread
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
You already know wheat is inflammatory, high glycemic, and allergenic for many people, but did you know that bread can affect your brain as well? Sad but true: something as ubiquitous as your morning toast could cause short term brain fog and contribute (or even cause) neurological diseases long term.
On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, you’ll meet filmmaker, Max Lugavere, who is leading an awareness campaign to connect the dots between bread and cognitive decline. Initially motivated by the neurological challenges of his mother, Lugavere will shed new light on “sandwich culture” and why we need to rethink this all-American staple in our diets.
Lugavere is an American television personality, producer, filmmaker, and musician. He earned a degree in film and psychology from the University of Miami and contributes regularly to The Huffington Post on topics of science, innovation, and technology. Currently, Max is working on a new documentary that explores the impact of our diets and lifestyles on brain health, called, Bread Head.
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What You’ll Learn:
- How bread can cause inflammation in the gut - but also in the brain
- How family history and genetics can load the gun while your food and lifestyle can pull the trigger for neurodegenerative disease
- What “impaired glucose metabolism” means and how does it relate to Alzheimer´s Disease
- How a high fat, ketogenic diet could be a breakthrough for brain health
- What Type III diabetes is and who is at risk
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Microwaves - should we use them?
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| 0:00.0 | One thing I've always struggled with in yoga is my balance. |
| 0:03.2 | In the standing series, any one-legged asymmetrical standing pose, |
| 0:07.8 | whether it's a tree pose or Utitasta, |
| 0:10.8 | Pardungustasana, any of these poses have always been extremely challenging for me. |
| 0:15.0 | And early on in my yoga career, a female student, a friend of mine, suggested that I try wearing toast spacers. |
| 0:22.0 | Toesbasers, the way that I understood them |
| 0:25.0 | were these foamy things that you get at the nail salon |
| 0:27.6 | and they put them between the toes of their clients |
| 0:30.2 | so that the nail polish can dry |
| 0:31.8 | without getting all over the other toes. |
| 0:34.0 | I started wearing these to bed, they hurt like crazy, but they really helped start to stretch out my foot. |
| 0:40.0 | What happened to me is probably what's happened to you is for many years most of my life I wore terrible footwear that squished my foot into a very abnormal shape and by the time I started yoga |
| 0:50.3 | My toes could not spread at all and it's one of the biggest things that impacts |
| 0:55.2 | your balance is the dexterity, flexibility and strength of your toes and |
| 0:58.8 | mine were just kind of like this locked up row of toes and something I continue to struggle with today |
| 1:03.7 | but I've made huge progress and I started using these foam spacers. Fast forward about 10 years, |
| 1:10.3 | I got excited because my feet actually transformed. I went from a size 10 in US sizes to a size 12 and I think I should actually be a size 13 meaning my natural foot size is about three full sizes larger than when I started. |
| 1:25.8 | That's like going in in European sizes from a 43 to a 46. |
| 1:29.8 | Huge huge difference and not that I want enormous feet but what I would like to do is be |
| 1:35.1 | able to balance well on one foot I would like to have dexterity and strength and |
| 1:39.2 | movement and in my feet and here's what happens when your toes have that kind of flexibility |
| 1:45.2 | movement ability it impacts your posture you have better posture it impacts |
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