The Surprising Way to Exercise for Your Brain Health, with Max Lugavere
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to fitness and exercise for maximum health benefits, the discussion is usually centered around cardio. But is cardio exercise really the BEST way to get your brain and body in shape? In the last episode of a series with "The Genius Life" author Max Lugavere, he and the Amens discuss another type of approach to the gym that can have a bigger impact on your overall health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. |
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| 0:49.6 | Welcome back. |
| 0:50.4 | We are here with Max Lugavir. |
| 0:52.4 | We're having a great conversation about his new book, The Genius Life, and he's the best-selling author of Genius Foods. He's been on television, a bunch, I have his brain, which always makes |
| 1:06.1 | me happy. |
| 1:07.1 | We did a show together for the Dr. Oz show, and we're talking about practical ways to keep your brain and your body healthy. |
| 1:21.0 | And so we've talked about food, we talked about light. |
| 1:24.6 | What about exercise? |
| 1:25.5 | What about weight-bearing exercise? |
| 1:28.1 | Crucially important, I'm so glad you brought that up. |
| 1:30.4 | I think that there's been a bias in the medical literature for a long time. |
| 1:35.0 | All of the exercise interventions on brain health have really centered around aerobic exercise, |
| 1:40.0 | which I think is certainly important doing cardio but I think it's over it's been |
| 1:44.8 | over emphasized in the literature especially and also in the media I think |
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