4. The Genius Life: Nutrition for a Healthy Brain & Body (Without Counting Calories) - with Max Lugavere

Be Well by Kelly Leveque

Kelly Leveque

Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Max Lugavere’s New York Times bestseller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life is one of my absolute favorite books about nutrition, although it’s also more than that. Genius Foods combines research on dementia prevention, cognitive optimization, and nutritional psychiatry to offer a comprehensive guide to brain optimization. Not only is it all backed by science but the key takeaways feel approachable and immediately doable for anyone. Max is one of the bright lights in the health and nutrition space right now, and he’s definitely someone you should be following if you want to maximize what you get out of your life. Max also has a new book coming out very soon, The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary, and I can’t wait to discover what’s in it! You will learn about... The deeply personal reasons that Max started writing Genius Foods (1:00) Researching the connection between our diet, our environment, and brain disease (8:00) Life-changing lessons that Max has learned while researching for The Genius Life (10:30) The non-deliberate exercise activities that are so important for our health (13:10) What you should be eating to prevent illness (18:50) Tips and tricks for working out when you’re busy (23:40) What you need to know about when you eat and when you -exercise (30:45) Tips for elevating your sleep hygiene, feeding times, and workouts (36:45) How to reduce the number of toxins and endocrine disruptors that you ingest and come into contact with (45:30) What you need to know about your dental floss (49:30) What you can do to eliminate toxins in your body (52:35) The value of being present with your food (58:30) Resources: www.maxlugavere.com Instagram: @MaxLugavere Podcast: The Genius Life Read: Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life Preorder: The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary (March 27, 2020) Caraway Cookware: www.carawayhome.com GreenChef Cookware: www.greenchef-cookware.com Connect with Kelly: kellyleveque.com Instagram: @bewellbykelly Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly Be Well By Kelly is a production of Crate Media Mentioned in this episode: BWBK Protein Powder | Get $10 off your order with PODCAST10 at bewellbykelly.com.

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0:00.0	I want to take a break from the podcast right now and I want to give you a gift.
0:04.3	I want to do that to thank you for being a listener.
0:07.5	I put my heart and soul into this podcast.
0:09.8	I love interviewing today's experts,
0:12.6	researchers, MD, psychologists, sleep trainers,
0:17.6	you name it.
0:18.3	I just hope you feel inspired to take care of yourselves
0:21.0	and your families. And I just want to thank you for being a yourselves and your families.
0:22.5	And I just want to thank you for being a listener
0:24.7	and hanging out with me.
0:25.5	So the Code Podcast 10 is going to give you a one-time $10 off
0:30.1	code at Kellylevac.com, your next order of protein powder. You can either use that on
0:35.5	my grass-fed beef isolate protein or on my new vegan Cho-Cho-Cho bean protein. Now here's
0:41.6	what I love about my protein powders. It's three ingredients or less. We don't use fillers, emulsifiers, no fortified vitamins or minerals. It's easy to digest and naturally made without any enzymes or chemicals like hexane.
0:57.0	So it's three ingredients with my grass-fed beef isolate.
1:00.0	That's 100% grass-fed beef and it's made in the way that you would make bone broth so just heat and water and we dehydrated that end product to get that
1:09.4	Collagen-rich protein powder that your whole family can drink. It can be added to coffees, to smoothies, and you can get it in vanilla, chocolate and unflavored. I want to point out that my vanilla and chocolate is made with organic vanilla bean, organic cacao, and the only sweetener used is organic monk fruit.
1:24.9	We don't use any maltodextrin, our monk fruit is 100% ground monk fruit and it's organic.
1:30.8	And with my vegan line I'm so excited to have launched this and
1:34.7	have it out into the world. It's a regenerative bean from South America called
1:38.8	the Chocho-Cho bean. And the Cho-Cho-Cho-Beane is the most superior plant-based protein powder you can get your hands on because not only is it a complete protein, but the process is made with heat and water only.
1:48.5	They're crushed and soaked and what that end product results in is an anti-nutrient-free protein powder.
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