What's going on, everybody? It's episode 540 of The Genius Life. Let's go.

What up here? What up here? What is going to be? The Genius Life.

What up, everybody? I'm your host, Max Lugavir, and welcome back to The Genius Life, a show where we try to live a little smarter, a little stronger, and ideally with fewer mysterious symptoms that your doctor labels stress before sending you on your way.

Today's episode is a perfect follow-up to Monday's episode,

where we talked about inflammation, because in this conversation, we go even further down the rabbit hole. What inflammation actually is, how it shows up in the real world, how to measure

it, and how to start lowering your inflammatory load without sliding into food fear,

or turning your pantry into a biohazard crime scene. My guest is Dr. Josh

Redd. He runs multiple clinics and sees a staggering number of patients dealing with everything

from autoimmune conditions to brain fog, fatigue, and chronic pain. And he's here to share what he's

seeing on the front lines, the lab markers he tracks, the biggest lifestyle drivers, and the most

common dietary triggers that repeatedly

show up in his patient population. We get into the big rocks, real food, blood sugar stability,

gut health, and why digestion is often the missing link behind food sensitivities. Then we take

a very genius life detour into vagus nerve hacks, including a protocol that involves aggressive

gargling until you tear up.

Yes, really. Plus other strategies that sound weird until you understand the mechanism.

And then because apparently this is the episode where we cover everything, we also talk

regenerative medicine and stem cells. And I share my own experience with an L5S1 disc replacement

that genuinely changed my life. If you listened to Monday's episode and thought,

okay, but how deep does this go? Well, this is your answer. With all that out of the way, let's dive in. It's episode 540. Let's rock. Dr. Josh Redd. What's going on, man? Welcome. Thanks for having me. Nice to meet you. Yeah, nice to meet you. Heard a lot of great things. Thanks, dude. Thanks for coming out. I'm very excited. Your book is beautiful.

Yeah, thank you. I was perusing it. I haven't made any of the recipes yet, but they look delicious.

Yeah. Yeah, thank you. I was perusing it. I haven't made any of the recipes yet, but they look delicious. Yeah. Yeah, we're excited about this. It's going to be great. Is this your first book? I had kind of like a prequel that I just published myself and with a partner of mine, Carlin, call, And then we just completely redid it all. And so

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