The Life Stylist Podcast

What if Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases are preventable?What if our choices at the grocery store cash register, and the decisions we make when we’re craving a snack, are contributing to or causing dementia?Those are the questions that drove Max Lugavere – health and science journalist, brain food expert, and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Genius Foods –  to create his upcoming documentary Bread Head, a first-of-its-kind film about taking back the fate of our defining human characteristic: Our brains.Bread Head is also an incredibly personal story for Max because it documents his mother’s battle with a neurodegenerative disease. Unfortunately, there aren’t many viable interventions once symptoms start to appear. You’re just prescribed glorified biochemical band-aids and sent on your merry way. Max found that experience unsettling, and it drove him to pursue real answers.To Max, our current dementia epidemic didn't make sense.  The human body and mind can’t be designed