223: Max Lugavere - Alzheimer's And The Ketogenic Diet • Genius Foods • Stop Skimping On Sleep
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Max Lugavere (@maxlugavere) is a filmmaker, TV personality, health and science journalist, and brain food expert. He is also the director of the upcoming film Bread Head, the first-ever documentary about dementia prevention through diet and lifestyle. Max is the author of the soon-to-be released, Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain For Life*.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Max's Mom getting diagnosed with a neurodegenerative condition
- Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia
- Physicians know very little when it comes to nutrition
- Alzheimer's begins in the brain decades before the first symptom
- The diet Max recommends for ultimate cognition - The Genius Plan
- Alzheimer's and the ketogenic diet
- The connection between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's
- High fat is in
- The only oil Max recommends consuming liberally
- Supplementing with fish oil
- Huge fatty salads
- Carotenoids have been show to boost brain processing speed
- Smoke point vs. the point at which an oil oxidizes and goes rancid
- Stop consuming and cooking with grape seed oil
- People with Alzheimer's can crave sugary foods
- Finding balance with ketosis
- Creatine is a necessary compound in the brain - it recycles ATP
- Polyphenols - the most valuable compounds in chocolate
- When we're stagnant our brains suffer
- Building muscles essentially builds glucose banks
- Do you feel hungover after skimping on sleep?
- Can Alzheimer's disease be reversed?
- The importance of bright light exposure
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Related links:
Max Lugavere - Genius Foods (book)
Follow Max Lugavere on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
The 6 Things to Know When Buying Chocolate (Max's blog)
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| 0:00.0 | It doesn't take a lot of heat to actually make them oxidize. |
| 0:03.0 | In fact, by the time you even put those oils in the pan, |
| 0:05.7 | they're likely already oxidized due to the production process. Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 223. |
| 0:19.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marty Wasserman |
| 0:22.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:25.0 | This week our featured guest is Max Lugavir. |
| 0:28.0 | He's a filmmaker, TV personality, health and science journalist, and Brain Food Expert. |
| 0:34.0 | He's also the director of the upcoming film Breadhead, |
| 0:37.0 | the first ever documentary about dementia prevention |
| 0:40.0 | through diet and lifestyle, and author of the soon- Soon to be released Genius Foods, which is the book we dig into on today's show. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm really happy we get into the subject of dementia. This is something really important to highlight and address, |
| 0:52.0 | and Max shares his own personal story, having come across |
| 0:55.3 | dimension in his own personal life and you guys are going to get a lot out of this. So here's some of what we get into. |
| 1:00.6 | We talk about how Alzheimer's begins in the brain decades |
| 1:04.1 | before the first symptoms appear, the diet that Max actually recommends for |
| 1:08.8 | ultimate cognition and this is his genius plan. We talk about what these genius foods actually are. |
| 1:14.7 | The only oil Max recommends |
| 1:17.2 | and why you feel hungover when you don't get enough sleep. |
| 1:20.8 | So much great information, |
| 1:22.2 | excited for you guys to hear this conversation with Max, here we go. |
| 1:25.0 | Max, you have a new book coming out, Genius Foods, and we're just going to dig into everything about food and its impact on the brain. But before we get into this, I think it's important to give a bit of backstory. |
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