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It's an exciting day today.

You know, the world has changed a bit since our days as hunter-gatherers and it's left our

brains in a state of despair and you might be feeling that today so please stay tuned. You know according to the

World Health Assembly the burden of depression anxiety and other mental health

conditions is on the rise. No joke. The good news is we can turn things around. In a moment, I'm

going to speak with the renowned health journalist, podcaster, and New York Times best-selling author, Max Lucavare, who I consider

a colleague and friend.

In his latest book, The Genius Life, Max says that we can heal our bodies and brains by changing our lifestyle,

improving our cognitive function and emotional wellness as a result.

Today we're going to discuss how. Max welcome

back to the Dr. Gondry podcast. Thank you so much for having me. It's always a

treat to get to talk to you. I've learned a lot from you over the years and I

value our friendship. So thanks for having me. You have been an outspoken health and wellness advocate actually for years now. I know

but tell our listeners how you got into this line of work.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I began as a generalist journalist,

that's a bit of a mouthful. I consider myself having been a bit of a stem cell in my previous line of work in that I was undifferentiated. I used to work for Al Gore who had a TV network called Current TV. It was not a political network, but I was there sort of as an investigator

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