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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Max Lugavere is a top health podcaster, wellness journalist, filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author.
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0:00.0 | Coming up on today's show. |
0:02.1 | I'm a huge fan of eggs. |
0:04.1 | I think eggs are one of nature's multivitamins and provide a little bit of everything required |
0:08.1 | to grow a healthy brain. |
0:09.3 | So for anybody listening to this wanting to fortify their brain health, I mean, eggs are |
0:12.4 | a fantastic food. |
0:14.0 | Ketones act like a signaling molecule in the brain, and that ketone presence seems to |
0:18.6 | affect the brain's glymphatic system in a positive way. |
0:21.7 | The brain's ability to make soluble and clear out proteins that are associated with Alzheimer's |
0:26.4 | disease like amyloid beta. |
0:27.9 | A lot of people are afraid of red meat, but I don't think it's anything to be afraid of. |
0:31.2 | I think it's a fantastic healthful food. |
0:33.6 | I was really ahead of the curve with my promotion of coline and eggs for brain health, and now we've got lots of evidence coming out showing that I was right. |
0:42.3 | I was also one of the first people to talk about the importance of dietary carotenoids, not just beta carotene, vitamin A, but lutein and ziazantin for brain health. |
0:52.0 | I think these are crucially important. |
0:55.9 | The data on dairy is a lot of people have misconceptions about it. They believe it's inflammatory. Unless you have a specific |
0:59.3 | sensitivity to dairy, it's not inflammatory. Actually, data suggests it can be anti-inflammatory, |
1:04.2 | and it is a highly nutrient-dense food. So I'm all for it. |
1:09.4 | Max, when it comes to optimizing brain health, what are the biggest risk factors we have control |
1:15.3 | over? |
1:16.4 | That's a great place to start. |
1:17.6 | I think metabolic health should be a priority for anybody. |
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