#241: Max Lugavere
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 ā¢ 717 Ratings
šļø 30 April 2018
ā±ļø 31 minutes
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Summary
Max Lugavere is the New York Times BestsellingĀ authorĀ Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain For Life.Ā As a health and science journalist,Ā Lugavere has contributed toĀ Medscape, Vice, Fast Company,Ā CNN,Ā and theĀ Daily BeastĀ and has been featured onĀ NBC Nightly News, the Dr. Oz Show,Ā The Rachael Ray Show,Ā and inĀ The Wall Street Journal. He is a sought-after nutrition expert, invited to lecture at esteemed academic institutions such as the New York Academy of Sciences and Weill Cornell Medicine, and has given keynotes at such events as the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Sweden. From 2005-2011, Lugavere was a journalist for Al Goreās Current TV.Ā
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Sisson. |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome. |
| 0:09.9 | Enjoy the show. |
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| 0:21.9 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint.com. Hey, everyone. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | Today we have Max Lugavir, the New York Times bestselling author of Genius Foods, |
| 0:30.4 | Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive, While Protecting Your Brain for Life. |
| 0:34.7 | As a health and science journalist, he is also a sought-after nutrition expert |
| 0:38.8 | and so much more contributing to so many top publications and more. Welcome to the show, Max. |
| 0:44.6 | Thanks so much for having me. It's a real pleasure to be here, Elle. Thanks. |
| 0:48.1 | Congratulations, New York Times bestselling author. Everybody wants to be that. Let's go first into, |
| 0:53.5 | before we delve into the, you know, |
| 0:55.2 | tenets of your book, let's get into, you know, how did you even get into writing and then |
| 0:59.8 | health writing? So tell us your journey. Yeah, absolutely. So about, man, 15 years now, I got a job |
| 1:08.6 | straight at a college hosting and producing content for a TV network that former U.S. Vice President Al Gore co-founded called Current TV. |
| 1:17.0 | And it was at that network that I really got to sort of hone my storytelling and journalistic skills with some of the best and the best in show business. |
| 1:27.1 | And it was an amazing job opportunity that allowed me to be both on TV and enjoy the |
| 1:32.6 | perks that come with such a job. |
| 1:36.1 | But then also the network was very much about impact and, you know, |
| 1:40.5 | leaving the world sort of better and perhaps even smarter than it was before. |
| 1:45.1 | So I did that for five, six years. |
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