E223: The No.1 Health Expert: The One Food (WE ALL EAT) That's Killing Us Slowly: Max Lugavere

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Max Lugavere is a foremost expert on the brain and how we can get the best out of it. A New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, his books 'Genius Foods', 'Genius Life' and 'Genius Kitchen' have ushered in a new way of seeing how what we eat effects how effective our brain is.

What few know about Max is that his best-selling books come from deeply heartfelt motivation, as he saw his mother lost to dementia. Ever since that terrible day he's had one focus and one focus only - what can people do to protect and enable their brain and mental capacity.

In a conversation packed with takeaway, practical insights, he takes us through how you can take your brain from ordinary to extraordinary. One of the foremost experts on nutrition to ever appear on DOAC, Max has an ability to take the latest scientific concepts and translate it into human like few we've ever seen before.

Topics:

Why do you do what you do?
Sugar
Sugar free products
Keto diet
Veganism and vegetarianism
What food should be eat?
Why are we addicted to snacks?
Mental health
Stressers/stressors
Sleep
Coffee
Is travel good for our health?
Relationships
Last guest’s question

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You know that as your waste expands your brain shrinks?
0:02.9	What?
0:03.6	Yes, related to Max Lugovir.
0:06.3	He's the author of The New York Times bestselling book Genius Foods.
0:09.3	A brain food expert.
0:10.9	He's the best in the world at what he does.
0:12.5	There's a lot of misinformation out there.
0:14.3	And so my passion is to know what's true.
0:17.1	So when it comes to sugar, your average adult today is consuming 77 grams of added sugar every single day.
0:22.4	That's almost 20 teaspoons.
0:23.7	Jesus Christ.
0:24.6	But the issue is we're designed to over consume those foods.
0:27.6	So you're fighting against millions of years of evolution.
0:30.7	How do we solve that?
0:32.0	I haven't gotten asked that anywhere else.
0:34.3	So controversial new research surrounding meat in our diet.
0:37.9	Red meat is not associated with the health problems we've been told for decades.
0:42.0	People will try to censor you in talking about it,
0:44.4	but we know that animal products in particular contain nutrients that are very supportive of good mental health.
0:49.5	And there have been a number of studies that have shown that particularly vegan diets
0:53.8	are put people at increased risk or depression, at least a doubling of risk.
0:57.8	I mean, food is so powerful.
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