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The Genius Life

363: Debunking Netflix's New Vegan Documentary Series, 'You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment' | Max Lugavere and Luke Cook

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.74.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Luke Cook is an actor, comedian, content creator, health science enthusiast, and former podcaster.

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0:00.0

What up team? Welcome to episode 363 of The Genius Life. The genius life.

0:14.0

What's going on?

0:16.0

There's so much more.

0:18.0

What's going on everybody?

0:20.0

How you doing?

0:21.0

Welcome back to another episode of the show.

0:22.0

I'm your host Max Lugavir, a filmmaker,

0:24.0

health and science journalist, a New York Times best-selling author. I've dedicated my life to unraveling

0:28.7

the science behind how our choices, including what we eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel,

0:35.2

our health span, and our risk for disease.

0:38.1

This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. On today's episode of the show, I'm super excited to welcome back, my good friend Luke Cook.

0:47.0

Luke is an actor, he's a comedian, he's a wellness enthusiast, a former podcaster, and just an overall solid and

0:56.6

highly intelligent dude who I wanted to have on so that we could both jointly dismantle and ultimately debunk the latest and

1:05.6

greatest vegan propaganda to grace our collective screens you are what you eat a

1:10.9

documentary miniseries which premiered on Netflix earlier this month and has been making the waves on social media to put it lightly.

1:18.8

The miniseries presents a narrative portrayal of a recent Jama Network open study published by Stanford University

1:25.8

that sought to investigate the cardiometabolic effects of a quote-unquote healthy plant-based

1:31.1

vegan diet versus a quote-unquote healthy omnivorous diet. healthy of some of the twins that were involved in the study, along with the lead researcher Christopher Gardner, and other guest experts.

1:46.0

In a quote unquote unique scientific experiment designed to explore how certain foods impact the body.

1:52.0

Sounds great, right?

1:53.5

Unfortunately, the entire production

1:55.5

was so incredibly biased that it's better off

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