Max Lugavere: A Deeper Look into The Genius Life
Align Podcast
Aaron Alexander
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
If you think you’ve heard everything Max Lugavere has to say about the Genius Life, I’m guessing you haven’t heard this. We go deeper than his brand-new book and take a look into how Max lives his personal Genius Life. We not only discuss his brand-new book, The Genius Life, but also dive into how he has navigated through the events of 2020, the music he creates (did you know he’s a musician?), and all things mind and body because that’s what this podcast is all about.
Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, health and science journalist and the author of the New York Times best-seller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life, as well as The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary, which is his newest book. He is also the host of the #1 Apple Podcasts Health podcast, The Genius Life.
What we discuss:
How posting only your “best side” can be a form of violence to others 4:30
Max’s experience navigating through the coronavirus: 8:00
Statistics on obesity: 18:00
What inflammation does to your body: 20:30
The three H’s that define good health: 28:00
Common nutrient deficiencies: 29:45
Max’s personal journey as a musician: 34:00
Dealing with trauma: 49:00
Mastering your voice: 55:00
Find more from Max:
Website: www.maxlugavere.com
Instagram: @maxlugavere
Book: The Genius Life
Podcast: The Genius Life Podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Line Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander for newcomers to this program and it's a place of bringing together the world's leading experts on all the things health, wellness, movement, psychology, sexuality, consciousness, all the parts that make your humanity function. |
| 0:16.4 | And that is exactly what we talk about in today's conversation with New York Times best-selling |
| 0:20.8 | author Maximus Lugavere, also known as Max Lugavair. He is a |
| 0:25.0 | dear friend and this was a fun conversation that I literally just got done |
| 0:29.4 | recording like an hour and a half ago and it's hot off the presses a lot of the conversations in the past have |
| 0:34.7 | been sometimes really as much as like six months to even more than that later. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm out of podcast episodes because this whole crisis thing I haven't done a lot which is great |
| 0:43.8 | it's better to be timely these days because if you like 20-20 days or like 2019 months so you gotta say the right thing at the right time and just time is moving fast. |
| 0:57.0 | So I want to start off with a quote in somewhat in relation to the times. |
| 1:02.0 | This is from Martin Luther King it says in a real sense all life is interrelated |
| 1:05.9 | all men are caught in an in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny |
| 1:12.1 | whatever affects one directly if tied in a single garment of destiny. |
| 1:12.6 | Whatever effects one directly affects all indirectly. |
| 1:17.0 | I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. |
| 1:21.3 | And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated |
| 1:27.0 | structure of reality. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. So that's cool. |
| 1:33.0 | kind of an interesting thing. |
| 1:35.0 | I wonder, it's fascinating how in this time of observing, |
| 1:39.5 | suffering in the world, when you look at a middle-aged white men, seemingly the luckiest in quotations folks, |
| 1:47.0 | they have the by far the highest incidence of suicide, |
| 1:51.0 | which we talk about that in this conversation, and it's a fascinating thing to weigh and measure suffering. |
| 1:59.0 | It feels to me, based off of what MLK is saying, slash my own intuition, that if we are taking from |
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