People tend to make their diets their religions and their identity and that's a big problem because when you come along and you talk especially in a credible way about a diet that may be better than this diet that so-and-so has adopted as their identity, as their sort of religious fundamentalist belief,

then it's like you're threatening their identity.

Those are the kinds of people that tend to come out after me, and it's fine, I get it.

Like I understand that talking about nutrition sometimes is akin to arguing about religion.

That's 100% what it is. Like most of these people

they're not going to change their minds. So it's fine so I don't really engage and get

too emotionally wrapped up in it. And also I like to remind them that I'm pro-plant.

I'm not the enemy.

I'm trying to get people off of ultra-processed foods.

Like I'm not a carnivore dieter, right?

I don't promote the carnivore diet. I promote a very balanced

diet inclusive of both animal products and plant products. So I honestly think the reason why I

seem to get so much vitriol from that community is because they're the most threatened by me

because I present the most compelling and convincing argument against plant exclusive diets. diets. Hey there's Light Watkins.

Welcome back to the podcast.

So this is a very special week on the podcast because we've got our very first return guest on the show.

My brother from another mother, Mr Max Lugavir, is back.

You may remember Max's original episode, which I believe was number 16.

In that episode, we covered Max's full backstory, which is basically the story of how he became a diet and nutrition expert

after witnessing his dear mother suffer from dementia and naturally he was desperate to find solutions and he used his research skills from his days as a television host to learn as much as he could about brain health.

He started sharing it with other people in case they had a parent going through the same thing and eventually

Max put all of his findings about diet and brain health into a book which was called Genius Foods

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