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Genius Foods to Protect Your Brain with Max Lugavere

April 1, 2022 1 Comment

Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, health and science journalist and the author of the New York Times best-seller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life and most recently Genius Kitchen. He is also the host of the #1 iTunes health podcast The Genius Life. Max appears regularly on the Dr. Oz Show, the Rachael Ray Show, and The Doctors. He has contributed to Medscape, Vice, Fast Company, CNN, and the Daily Beast, has been featured on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show,and in The New York Times and People Magazine. He is an internationally sought-after speaker and has given talks at South by Southwest, TEDx, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, and many others. 

In this episode, Eric, Ginny, and Max discuss his books Genius Kitchen and Genius Foods:  Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life

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Max Lugavere, Ginny, and I Discuss Genius Food to Protect the Brain and…

  • His books, Genius Kitchen and Genius Foods:  Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for LifeGenius Foods:  Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
  • His mom’s diagnosis of dementia in her late fifties
  • His focus on learning and discovery of “genius foods” that help to protect the brain 
  • The health benefits he experienced after eliminating grains from his diet
  • How evidence shows that “genius foods” are crucial for brain health
  • Genius foods include extra virgin olive oil, fatty fish, berries, grass-fed beef, and dark leafy greens
  • This healthy diet leads to improvement in cognitive processing speed and executive function
  • The common overconsumption of sugar and its negative health effects 
  • How fiber isn’t an essential nutrient but still offers health benefits like satiation and reduction of inflammation
  • Understanding the gut microbiome
  • How eating the right foods helps to protect our delicate brains against oxidative stress 
  • The dangers of consuming highly processed oils and transfats
  • How the human body can’t properly digest gluten 
  • The increased health risks associated with chronically elevated blood sugar

Max Lugavere Links:

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Max’s Podcast: The Genius Life

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Max Lugavere you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Eating for Brain Health with Lisa Mosconi

Lessons About the Brain with Lisa Feldman Barrett

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  1. miriam says

    April 3, 2022 at 5:22 pm

    Hi there!
    Usually I really enjoy your podcast. This episode though really upset me. Ecologically seen, with the kinds of meat people generally buy all over the world, these recommendations given by Max Lugavere are devastating.
    Eat any kind of fish??! No!! Our oceans are heavily overfished! Especially shellfish, catching those destroys so so much! You’d better think really, really carefully about what kind of fish you eat.
    Eat red meat? Pleeeaaase no! Why would anyone give that recommendation without heavily stressing the point that if you do eat meat, only that sourced from grassfed cattle! Everything else ist devastating for our environment as well as your health.
    Also, you can get healthy and environmentally sensible protein from
    All oils except olive oil are bad because they’re heavily processed? That’s just wrong – virgin linnen seed oil, for example, is super healthy, just like olive oil.
    While his points on what helps our brain might be true and helpful, the environmental and ethical aspect of the foods source was missing big time. And that makes all the difference.

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