Welcome to the Habits and Hustle Podcast. A podcast that uncovers the rituals, unspoken

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your host, Jennifer Cohen.

All right, so on Habits and Hustle, we have Max Lugavir, who by the way, I am a big fan

of because I think you're so smart and I loved your first book. So he wrote Genius

Foods, which was a New York Times bestseller. And I was new book that is coming out, I

guess, since we're going to be doing up now, let's say right now.

Right now. Genius Life is a guest as our guest today. So welcome.

Thanks for having me. This is cool. It's the first interview I've ever given while on

a treadmill. So already I'm having a good time.

Well, good. I'm glad to hear. First of all, you should be a big fan because in your first

was it your first book, you talked about how it's when people are moving and talking,

they end up remembering things better. And it's great for your cognitive functioning.

But you can talk about that. Yeah, I mean, it activates your exercise,

it activates your prefrontal cortex, which is basically the hub of self awareness, of

executive function. And executive function is this broad sort of cognitive domain, but

it includes being able to take in stimuli, manipulate ideas, respond.

And also maybe even remember things better. There was a study where they, I think it was

done in China where they were teaching students English. And they put them on like these bicycles,

these aerobic bicycles while they were learning. And they found that the people who were on bicycles

while they received their English lesson were able to retain a lot more like a significant

amount, you know, significantly more than the controls that were just like seated in

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