Max Lugavere: Brain Health & How to Get Smarter Over Time (Instead of Dumber)
Abel James Show
Abel James Bascom
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As a collective, are we getting smarter or dumber?
Let’s be honest.
Intelligence—the capacity for learning, logic, understanding, critical thinking, planning, self-awareness, problem solving, emotional knowledge, reasoning, creativity—is a whole brain-body phonomenon.
And in order to harness your natural intelligence, it’s important to support your brain and body with the right foods, and turn down other inputs, like pollution and toxins that can drag us down.
Well, I’m happy to say that returning to the show today is our friend Mr. Max Lugavere.
Max is a filmmaker, health and science journalist, host of The Genius Life podcast, and New York Times bestselling author of Genius Foods.
And on today’s show, we’re chatting about:
- How to eat for your brain health
- Why it’s important to eat the rainbow (and not the sugary Skittles kind)
- The metabolic "free ride" of protein
- How to get smarter in a confusing and divisive time
- And much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, this is Abel James and thanks so much for joining us on the fat burning man show where we talk about real food and |
| 0:07.6 | real results. |
| 0:09.4 | As a collective, are we getting smarter or dumber? |
| 0:13.0 | Let's be honest. |
| 0:14.7 | Intelligence, the capacity for learning logic, understanding, critical thinking, planning, self-awareness, problem-solving, emotional knowledge, reasoning, creativity, is a whole brain body phenomenon. |
| 0:26.1 | And in order to harness your natural intelligence, it's important to support your brain body with the right foods it needs, and turning down other inputs like pollution and toxins that can drag us down. |
| 0:38.2 | Well, I'm very happy to say that returning to the show today is our friend, Mr. Max Lugovir. |
| 0:43.7 | Max, the best-selling author and filmmaker, is here on the show to talk about how we can deal with misinformation overload in a very divisive world. |
| 0:53.5 | But before we get there, here's a review for the wild diet that came in from Ryan. |
| 0:57.9 | He says, |
| 0:59.1 | The fat burning man strikes again with an all-out assault on GMOs, non-organic fast food, corporatism bringing light and influence to the farm to table lifestyle that'll put into perspective how our modern world has changed us. |
| 1:13.6 | Great book, great recipes. |
| 1:15.4 | I recommend this book for anyone wanting to regain control over their life. |
| 1:19.9 | Ryan. |
| 1:21.1 | Hey, Ryan, I got to say, reading this review, it's one of the best written kind of wordsmith reviews. |
| 1:27.5 | I can tell that you have fun with words in a similar way. |
| 1:30.4 | You're probably even some sort of artist or musician as well. |
| 1:32.9 | But I really appreciate your sincere note here. |
| 1:36.0 | And I appreciate that you like the recipes as well. |
| 1:38.8 | If you're out there and you're looking for some free recipes, by the way, make sure to go to the blog and website fatburningman.com |
| 1:45.9 | that I've been running for over 10 years with my wife Allison. |
| 1:48.7 | We have so many recipes there and many more to come. |
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