2370: Demystifying Alzheimer's With Max Lugavere

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth · Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

July 1, 20241h 14m

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Max Lugavere

Max's new film and the story behind it. (2:38)
The troubling rise of dementia/Alzheimer's. (5:39)
What he learned about our medical system regarding this disease. (9:25)
How these genes act with their environment. (15:49)
Eastern vs. Western medicine. (17:55)
Looking back, would he have done anything differently? (22:09)
What prompted him to document everything? (25:16)
The skills learned from being a journalist. (28:22)
Giving a raw portrait of what it's like to have dementia. (33:43)
Did the storytelling change throughout the course of filming? (36:51)
His stem cell experience with Dr. Khan. (41:04)
The connection between certain pollutants and the risk of dementia. (41:57)
Exercise, medicine for the brain. (48:08)
Approaching your exercise with methodology. (56:39)
His first experience seeing the film with an audience. (1:00:00)
Releasing expectations and doing what you want to do. (1:02:55)
A caregiver's disease. (1:09:18)
The importance of creatine for the brain. (1:10:50)