How's it going everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Genius Life. I'm your host Max Lugovir,

a filmmaker, health and science journalist, and the author of the New York Times best-selling book Genius Foods.

In this episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce you to my good friend Dr. Paul Graywall.

If his name sounds familiar to you, it's because it adorns the cover of my book Genius Foods.

Dr. Paul served as my co-author in the book, and for about eight months in 2016, as we underwent

the principal writing process, we were basically a married couple. We'd brainstorm, write,

philosophize, and even argue at times, all for the sake of writing the best possible book we could

on health and nutrition. Dr. Paul is a board-certified internal medicine physician, one of the smartest

guys I know, and an expert in metabolic health, weight loss, and exercise physiology. He's got a very

moving personal story that's motivated his work at the front lines medicine, and I can't wait for

you to hear it. So in this hour and 15 minute interview, you're going to learn a lot, including labs

that you can use to assess how your metabolic engine is running, why yo-yo dieting and counting

calories is only setting you up for failure in the modern food environment. What Dr. Graywall thinks

of cholesterol lowering drugs called statins, which are a $25 billion a year business, the number one

thing that you can do in the gym for better bone mineral density, and so much more. This is easily one

of my favorite episodes that I've taped so far for the Genius Life, so I do hope that you listen

all the way through to the end, and if you enjoy it, it would mean the world to me if you'd consider

sharing it on social media to help spread the word. But before we get to the show, do you want to

sleep a little bit better? If you're one of the 30% of the general population that complain of

insomnia, then I'm assuming your answer is yes. There's a handful of studies that talk about the

benefits of supplemental glycine on sleep quality. One 2006 study published in the journal Sleep and

Biological Rhythms found that three grams of glycine before bed improved symptoms of fatigue and

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