What up family welcome to episode 233 of the Genius Life.

What's going on everybody welcome to another episode of the show I'm your host Max Lugov,

you're a filmmaker, health and science journalist, an author of the New York Times bestselling book Genius Foods and the Genius Life along with the new cookbook Genius Kitchen, which is out now.

You guys has passed the past few weeks. I've just been a whirlwind and Genius Kitchen out this week. It's been so incredible to see the support that I've received from you guys.

I'm so touched and so moved and so appreciative. I worked so hard on this book and you know you work for years in isolation on a book and then it finally comes out and you just you pray that it's going to find its audience and so far the response that you guys have have shared on social media.

It's just been so overwhelmingly positive and kind you've been sharing the book cover which is a trip because you know I'm on it. The recipes that you guys are creating and I wrote this book to I mean not just to complete the Genius trilogy which I'm super excited about being a film nerd.

But I wrote it because food is so important and nutrition recommendations can only take you so far right you need to be able to apply everything that it is you're learning about nutrition on this podcast in my prior books and elsewhere.

With regard to the foods that you're eating and you want to be able to eat delicious food food is so important it's how we nourish ourselves it's how we celebrate major events in life it's how we bond with one another how we express love.

And I realized with what my mom went through particularly in her final months that food really is a gift and the ability to eat the ability to enjoy food it's a gift it's a privilege and.

It doesn't last forever so my intent with genius kitchen was to celebrate food and to celebrate cooking and to do so while providing a template for foods that are going to nourish your body support metabolic health support your brain health.

Help lose weight if that's what you want to do prevention in accordance with the best available evidence of chronic diseases like dementia like heart disease.

But again it all comes back to the food it all comes back to.

Pleasing those taste buds and and and seeing the smiles across the table from our loved ones as we serve them the food the foods that we've prepared so I truly hope that you consider picking up genius kitchen if you haven't already it's out this week if you order it this week it's particularly beneficial for authors it just it shows demand so I would I would very much appreciate the support and you're going to love the food.

And you're going to love the book as I've said many times before it's not your mom is cookbook it's full of recipes beautiful photos but it also is a wellness and kitchen guide and I'm just so excited to see it in your hands so thank you for ordering it I appreciate you and

thank you for letting me do what it is that I love every day.

And I'm going to love his name is Dr Roger Schwelt he is a associate clinical professor at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine and he's an assistant clinical professor at the school of medicine and allied health at Loma Linda University we had him on the podcast previously to talk about all the different ways that you can support immune function.

And I'm going to talk about the fact that in the wake of COVID-19 that was a really important topic I felt to cover but today's focus is going to be sleep because Dr Schwelt is board certified in sleep medicine so we're going to talk all things sleep how to optimize your sleep quality how to optimize your sleep duration we're going to talk about why for example it's so crucial to get sunlight first thing in the morning helps boost melt on production help support your immune system.

And I'm going to talk about the risks of skin cancer and premature aging with the benefits that we get from sunlight.

We're going to talk about best practices for consuming caffeine we're going to talk about risk factors and signs of sleep apnea and why women present differently from men so many important things we are going to talk about on this episode of the show I truly hope you enjoy it I hope you share it and again thank you for all the support that you've shown me over the past week.

Thank you for watching this video.

Thank you.

This episode of the show is sponsored by my good friends at element I love element electrolytes I actually became not too long ago and investor in the company because I really believe in the product I love the fact that their products are sugar free and if you're sweating vigorously on a regular basis you need to start to think about where your sodium is coming from sodium is a macro mineral.

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