The No.1 Health Expert: The One Food (WE ALL EAT) That's Slowly Hurting Us!: Max Lugavere
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We know that as your waist expands, your brain shrinks. What? Yes. Related to Max Lugavir. He's the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Genius Food, a brain food expert. He's just the best in the world at what he does. There's a lot of misinformation out there. And so my passion is to know what's true. So when it comes to sugar, your average adult today is consuming 77 grams of added sugar every single day. That's almost 20 teaspoons. Jesus Christ. But the issue is we're designed to overconsume those foods. So you're fighting against millions of years of evolution. How do we solve that? I haven't gotten asked that anywhere else. So controversial new research surrounding meat in our diet. Red meat is not associated with the health problems we've been told for decades. People will try to censor you in talking about it, but we know that animal products in particular contain nutrients that are very supportive of good mental health. And there have been a number of studies that have shown that particularly vegan diets at increased risk or depression, at least a doubling of risk. I mean food is so powerful. It's medicine. I get passionate about this because my mom was a vegetarian. It's clear that her low meat diet didn't protect her. Yeah.
There was a period where she got really bad really fast. And then She passed away. It was just so incredibly hard. There were times I thought about suicide. It really showed me how fragile life is. We have incredible agency to change our destiny and to change the way really ultimately most of us are aging today. So how do we change that?
Why do you do What you do. And What do you do? Oh man.
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