345: Max Lugavere - The Genius Life, Minimizing Noise Pollution, Supplementing With Collagen
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Max Lugavere (IG: @maxlugavere) is a filmmaker, health and science journalist and the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Genius Foods. He is also the host of the #1 iTunes health podcast The Genius Life.
Max appears regularly on the Dr. Oz Show, the Rachael Ray Show, and The Doctors. He is a sought-after speaker and has given talks at South by Southwest, TEDx, the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, and many others.
Max just released his second book, The Genius Life, which covers diet and many other factors that contribute to a healthy lifestyle.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Max’s mother suffered from lewy body dementia and pancreatic cancer before passing
- Prevention is crucial
- Genius foods = the ultimate nutritional care manual for the human brain
- Environmental toxins may increase your risk for certain cancers
- The long-term negative impacts of a low-fat, low cholesterol diet
- Ditch commercial salad dressings containing refined oils
- Artificial light is wreaking havoc on your circadian rhythms
- The problem with protein bars
- Are you over-consuming muscle meat?
- The benefits of taking a collagen supplement
- What is afternoon diabetes?
- Coffee encourages the production of ketones
- Stop eating 2-3 hours before bedtime
- The detrimental impacts of noise pollution
- How a white noise machine can improve your sleep
- Using air purifying plants in your home
- Help eliminate toxins in your home by wet dusting
- The three P’s of healthy elimination
- Minimize your exposure to BPA
- Max’s new podcast, The Genius Life
- Empower yourself with knowledge
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Related links:
Max Lugavere - The Genius Life (book)
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Max Lugavere - Genius Foods (book)
Listen to Max Lugavere previously on TUHP (episode #223)
The Genius Life with Max Lugavere (podcast)
The Genius Life 31: How to Buy the Best Extra-Virgin Olive Oil - Nicholas Coleman (Max's podcast)
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| 0:00.0 | A rule that I promote in the book is to generally not eat for two to three hours before you go to sleep. |
| 0:05.4 | A few things begin to happen as our bodies wind down for the evening, so when we sleep the brain actually |
| 0:11.8 | cleanses itself of proteins that can aggregate and form the plaques that we associated with Alzheimer's disease. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode |
| 0:25.0 | 345 Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your |
| 0:29.8 | health to the next level each week we will bring you inspiring and informative |
| 0:33.5 | conversations about health and wellness, covering topics of nutrition, |
| 0:37.4 | lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. And this week Max Lugavir is back on the show. He's a filmmaker, health and science |
| 0:45.4 | journalist, and author of the New York Times best-selling book, Genius Foods. He's also the host of the |
| 0:51.2 | number one iTunes health podcast, The Genius Life. |
| 0:54.4 | Max appears regularly on the Doctora's show, The Rachel Ray Show, and The Doctors. |
| 0:59.5 | He's a sought after a speaker and is given talks at South by Southwest, TEDX, the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, and many others. |
| 1:08.0 | Max just released his second book, The Genius Life, which covers Diet, and many other factors that contribute to a healthy lifestyle. |
| 1:15.5 | With all of us at home right now in quarantine, we have a little bit of extra time on our hands, |
| 1:20.3 | and it's a perfect time to implement some changes to your lifestyle and Max gives a whole bunch of great ideas in today's chat for you and it would be a great idea to write down a couple points as you're going through the episode, things that you can implement into your lifestyle and |
| 1:34.7 | test while you have a little bit extra time on your hands. |
| 1:37.7 | And for me, I've really been upping myself over the last little bit and I've been able to do regularly sleep a little bit longer and make |
| 1:46.9 | sure I'm hydrating with water throughout the day and all this has been feeling really |
| 1:50.8 | good. So hopefully you can implement a couple new changes and let us know |
| 1:54.7 | how they're making you feel. So now back to Max and some of the highlights from today's show. |
| 1:59.8 | We get into artificial light and how it's wreaking havoc on your circadian rhythm? |
| 2:04.4 | Are you over-consuming muscle meat and how taking a collagen supplement can help balance this? |
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