meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

2370: Demystifying Alzheimer's 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

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Max Lugavere

  • Max's new film and the story behind it. (2:38)

  • The troubling rise of dementia/Alzheimer's. (5:39)

  • What he learned about our medical system regarding this disease. (9:25)

  • How these genes act with their environment. (15:49)

  • Eastern vs. Western medicine. (17:55)

  • Looking back, would he have done anything differently? (22:09)

  • What prompted him to document everything? (25:16)

  • The skills learned from being a journalist. (28:22)

  • Giving a raw portrait of what it's like to have dementia. (33:43)

  • Did the storytelling change throughout the course of filming? (36:51)

  • His stem cell experience with Dr. Khan. (41:04)

  • The connection between certain pollutants and the risk of dementia. (41:57)

  • Exercise, medicine for the brain. (48:08)

  • Approaching your exercise with methodology. (56:39)

  • His first experience seeing the film with an audience. (1:00:00)

  • Releasing expectations and doing what you want to do. (1:02:55)

  • A caregiver's disease. (1:09:18)

  • The importance of creatine for the brain. (1:10:50)

Related Links/Products Mentioned

Featured Guest/People Mentioned

 

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 Pump with your hosts.

0:09.0

Sal de Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You just found the most downloaded

0:14.5

Fitness Health and Entertainment Podcast. This is Mind Pump. Today we brought back our

0:19.0

friend Max Lugavir, he's the host of the Genius Life podcast.

0:22.8

He's an author, but he also wrote and directed a documentary called Little Empty Boxes.

0:28.1

This is about his mom, the journey that she went through with dementia and Alzheimer's.

0:34.0

In fact, this is what inspired him to become who he is today,

0:37.0

where he talks about how food affects our health.

0:40.0

This is a very, very good documentary.

0:43.0

Sometimes tough to watch, very touching.

0:46.0

He obviously loves his mother and his family a lot.

0:49.0

In fact, you can go to little emptyboxes.com and watch it just got to click on watch and

0:55.3

then you can take a gander and again his podcast is the genius life now this

0:59.7

episode was brought to you by one of our sponsors, Zero Shoes. These shoes are great for working out.

1:05.0

They're flat, they have a wide toe box, they're comfortable, they're perfect for lifting,

1:08.0

but they also have hiking shoes and other types of performance shoes.

1:12.0

Oh, and by the way, they look good. In fact if you go to

1:15.2

zero shoes.com zero spelled with an X so X E R.O shoes.com forward slash

1:20.8

mind pump you can enter to win one pair of shoes out of five.

1:25.8

So you'll literally win a pair of shoes by going on their website potentially.

1:29.9

Again, Zero Shoes.com, forward slash Mind Pump.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.