Hello everybody. Today I'm talking with Max Lugavir who flew in from

LA to Washington DC to have this conversation with me. He's a journalist who's become quite a well-known

scientific researcher and popularizer, but also a creative investigator in his own right.

He wrote a trilogy of books, the genius trilogy, one on foods, one on life and one a recipe

book on the kitchen and is also the producer of a documentary that will be released at the end of June

2024 called Little Empty Boxes. All of that was motivated by his mother's experience with a form of dementia known as,

that involves a degeneration of these neurological tissues known as Louis bodies.

It's not Alzheimer's or frontal temporal

dementia, it's another form of dementia and he was very shocked by his

mother's illness which she developed when she was in her late 50s, and also by the

dearth of effective treatment that was available to her and ended up obsessively concentrating on research into the

dementia's in general, concluding, as have many people in the last decade that the dementia spectrum of illnesses and that

includes Parkinson's by the way might well be preventable with interventions that are early enough in life and that many of those

interventions might be dietary in nature and we discuss why that is and talk about the carnivore diet as well as a potential

diagnostic investigative tool for the analysis of complex disease in general.

And well, I suppose in some ways celebrate the possibility that dietary modulation might prove to be the

treatment of choice on the prevention side for these terrible

degenerative neurological diseases.

So join us for that.

So I'm interested in diet, I suppose,

despite myself, I would say say because it's not my natural domain of interest

I'm more interested in psychological matters let's say then physical or

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