244: The Alzheimer's Fraud That Derailed Research for Decades | Max Lugavere and Matt Bilinsky
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Max Lugavere is a science journalist, host of The Genius Life podcast, and New York Times best-selling author. His latest book, Genius Kitchen: Over 100 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Make Your Brain Sharp, Body Strong, and Taste Buds Happy, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | What up family, welcome to bonus episode 244 of the Genius Live. Let's go. |
| 0:17.9 | What's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of the show bonus episode. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm your host Max Lugovira Filmmaker, health and science journalist and New York Times best-selling author. |
| 0:26.7 | I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices, including what we eat and how we live, |
| 0:31.4 | affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel and our health span and risk for disease. |
| 0:36.5 | This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. |
| 0:41.3 | This episode of the show is a special one with a bit of a different format. |
| 0:46.2 | I was recently interviewed by my good friend Matt Balinsky on his podcast, The prevailing Narrative, |
| 0:52.5 | which is a wonderful podcast that you should check out if you value critical thought in myriad sociopolitical areas |
| 0:58.6 | were aligned on in many areas and Matt is a very intelligent guy, wonderful speaker, great interviewer, |
| 1:04.2 | and an attorney by trade. |
| 1:06.1 | And he had me on his show to talk about the recent headlines regarding Alzheimer's disease and the fraudulent data |
| 1:12.5 | that was revealed to have been the basis of a seminal 2006 study published in the journal Nature. |
| 1:20.1 | That has since been cited hundreds of times in the Alzheimer's literature and really undermines |
| 1:26.6 | the decades of research with regard to Alzheimer's disease, which is a devastating neurological condition |
| 1:33.8 | that affects 5 million people today in the US alone and is set to explode in the coming years. |
| 1:39.1 | It's got no meaningful treatments currently on the market and really in my view, |
| 1:43.8 | the best way to move the needle on this condition as you guys know if your regular listeners of the podcast |
| 1:48.5 | is to prevent it. It's a really crazy story, I detail it and I just felt like the conversation was so important |
| 1:54.6 | and one that I felt like I would be remiss to not share with my own audience here on the Genius Life. |
| 2:00.0 | We also talk about another set of headlines that came out over the past two weeks |
| 2:04.5 | about the chemical imbalance theory of depression. We actually start with that topic |
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