with Guest: Max Lugavere
Max Lugavere is no stranger to illness. After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia at the age of 58, he put his successful media career on hold to investigate why. Ten years later, he's become a leading voice on nutrition. Lugavere has been invited to teach healthcare practitioners for continuing medical education (CME) credit, and has lectured at top academic institutions, including the New York Academy of Sciences and University of Chicago's Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory. As a researcher, he has co-authored peer-reviewed literature, including a clinicians textbook on the science of dementia prevention. His first book Genius Foods became an instant New York Times best-seller, and is now published in 8 languages around the globe. Get the book at http://shrnetwork.biz/geniuslifebook
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Show Notes:
The Genius Life
[3:23] The origin of Max’s health and wellness passion.
- He was always passionate about health and wellness, but after his mother was diagnosed with dementia and neurodegenerative disease, it became much more personal to him.
[10:00] Most physicians that Max and his mother visited for her condition were dismissive at best when asked about lifestyle and nutrition interventions.
[15:13] Compliance is one of the most important aspects of a diet.
- Max feels that fitness should be a lifestyle.
- He also feels that tribalism in nutrition is counterproductive.
[22:00] Metabolic derangement is the underlying factor of a majority of sickness in America.
- There is a useful blood marker called the homa IR, which incorporates fasting insulin into the calculation for insulin resistance.
[26:00] Achieving a normal, healthy weight should be the first goal in improving metabolic health.
- Everything else, such as grass fed vs grain fed meat can come later.
[32:15] Caffeine
[37:35] What is unique about Max’s book?
[40:00] The appeal to authority fallacy that someone made about Max’s book.
[53:20] The new frontier of the microbiome.
