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Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

When To Eat For Optimal Brain Function with Max Lugavere

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com

Kwikbrain, Education, Memory, Productivity, Jimkwik, Brain, Business

4.85.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about brain superfoods and what we should be eating to power a healthier, happier brain. Today’s show takes the conversation a step further as we talk about when we should be eating, and how fasting can impact our longevity and brain health. 

 

A common question from the Kwik Brain community has been how we can improve our brain functionality through nutrition and diet. A respected health and science journalist and author of a best-selling book on diet and brain health, today’s guest Max Lugavere has years of health and diet research experience to give you the best advice on improving your brain function through nutrition. 

 

The food we eat matters to our grey matter. When and what we eat can affect our memory, our thinking, our lifespan and our happiness. In today’s world, many of us are chronically eating, which is creating ongoing impacts and stresses on our bodies and brains — this makes sense if you consider we evolved as hunter-gatherers, eating only when we were able to find adequate food.

 

In today’s conversation we talk about some key nutrients for healthy brain cells, cover Max’s list of top genius foods you should be eating on a daily basis, provide a framework to guide when you eat and explain the effect of fasting on your mental state and metabolism. We’ll explain what current research is saying about fasting, and how you can improve your health through connectedness. 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more.

0:06.0

I'm your coach, Jim Quick.

0:08.0

Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity.

0:15.0

I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear.

0:18.0

I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.

0:20.0

I know Kung Fu.

0:22.0

Show me.

0:24.0

Welcome back, Quick Brain.

0:28.0

So, how do you fast your way to Genius?

0:32.0

This is a question we get a lot on Twitter and our... fast your way to genius.

0:32.6

This is a question we get a lot on Twitter

0:34.8

and our private Facebook group.

0:36.5

People talk about everything from diet

0:38.3

to intermittent fasting to the genius foods,

0:41.0

what are really the keys.

0:43.0

And so that's going to be the topic of this episode.

0:46.4

And I am here with a real master of this subject,

0:51.5

as Max Lugavir, and he is the New York Times best-selling author of a book I mentioned on my social media

0:57.0

called Genius Foods.

0:59.0

Congratulations on I Max, thanks for being here.

1:01.0

Thanks so much Jim. It's an honor to be here.

1:02.0

This is really fun. Now I have to say like when I got here Thanks for being here. Thanks so much Jim. It's an honor to be here.

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