219: The Bitter Truth About Sugar, How It's Killing You, and How to Get Off It | Max Lugavere
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Max Lugavere is a science journalist, host of The Genius Life podcast, and author of the upcoming book Genius Kitchen: Over 100 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Make Your Brain Sharp, Body Strong, and Taste Buds Happy. He is also the New York Times best-selling author of Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life and The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary.
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| 0:00.0 | What up family, welcome to episode 219 of the Genius Life. Let's go. |
| 0:18.7 | What up everybody, welcome back to another episode of The Show. I'm your host Max Lugovier, |
| 0:22.2 | a filmmaker, health and science journalist and author of The New York Times bestselling book, |
| 0:25.2 | Genius Foods, and The Genius Life. I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our |
| 0:29.6 | choices, including what we eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance, |
| 0:34.3 | how we feel, and our health span and risk for disease. This podcast is all about how to live in |
| 0:39.1 | that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. This episode of The Show is another solo |
| 0:44.2 | episode of The Show, where I cover all things sugar, where it hides the many names that it goes by, |
| 0:50.0 | the role that it plays in your body, the damage that eating too much of it can do with regard to your |
| 0:54.6 | waistline, hormone health, and blood pressure, and ways to get off sugar if you find yourself addicted |
| 1:00.2 | to it. Later in the episode, I try a new scientific device called Lumen, the only one of its kind that |
| 1:06.1 | is aiming to revolutionize the health industry by helping you understand your metabolism and your |
| 1:10.8 | metabolic flexibility. I see live on recording whether my body is burning mostly fat or carbs |
| 1:16.8 | and the implications of each. I love taping this episode of The Show. Added sugar consumption is a |
| 1:21.9 | major problem worldwide. To have my thoughts on sugar consumption all in one place, well, |
| 1:28.0 | it's something that I felt needed to be done. I hope you enjoy listening to it. If there's a |
| 1:33.0 | sugar junkie in your life that you think could benefit from this episode of The Show, please |
| 1:36.2 | don't hesitate to share this episode with them. Today's episode of The Show is brought to us by |
| 1:40.4 | our friends over at Live On Lab. Do you guys know the love that I feel deep in my heart for Live |
| 1:45.6 | On Labs? They're a great company and they have game-changing technology that they put into each |
| 1:52.0 | and every one of their supplements. I am particularly fond of their vitamin C supplement |
| 1:58.1 | in which they use liposomal encapsulation technology to make sure that you are absorbing the maximum |
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