What a family welcome to Episode 315 of the Genius Life.

What's going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of The Show.

I'm your host Max Lugovier, a filmmaker, health and science journalist in New York Times' best-selling author.

I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices, including what we eat and how we live,

affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, our health span, and our risk for disease.

This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius.

Guys, we have a big episode of The Show today in more ways than one.

On today's episode, I welcome the goat Stan Effarding. Stan is an IFBB professional bodybuilder

and world record-holding powerlifter. And get this you guys, he maintains the title of the world's

strongest bodybuilder. No big deal. Stan studied exercise science at the University of Oregon,

and has been training high school collegiate and professional athletes for over 25 years.

He conduct seminars all over the country for various sports and nutrition and training techniques,

and he's appeared in many magazines and writes for muscular development,

Flex Magazine and Power Magazine. He's also a very successful entrepreneur having built three

different startups into multi-million dollar companies. The man knows his stuff with regard to nutrition

science and we are going to get into it on today's episode of The Show. We cover a ton of ground

in this episode, including how to lose stubborn body fat. We're also going to discuss why Stan

believes that beef is the only food worthy of being called a superfood. We're going to discuss

why there's the belief that metabolism slows during menopause for the ladies in the audience.

We're going to talk about high protein diets and whether or not they are actually safe for kidney

function. We're going to talk about how to actually gain muscle and why so-called hard gainers

might actually want to reduce their protein intake. We're going to talk about the role of eating

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