Summary of Max Lugavere's The Genius Life

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#1 Food is a frontline defense against the conditions of aging and a foundation to living a Genius Life. It can either feed or fight lethargy, malaise, and your predilection for disease.

#2 The most effective way to lose weight is to avoid processed foods, which are typically loaded with sugar, fat, and salt. These are the foods that make eating them difficult, and they are difficult to eat in moderation.

#3 Hyperpalatable junk foods are extremely easy to overconsume, and they also influence your daily energy expenditure because the digestion of food burns calories. They make it extremely easy to overeat.

#4 The human diet has changed dramatically since the advent of agriculture. We overconsume sugar to the tune of sixty-six pounds per person, per year. The only sweet food available to a forager would be ripe fruit, and these fruits would only taste half as sweet as they do today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822529908

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Insights on Max Lugavere's The Genius Life

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Food is a frontline defense against the conditions of aging and a foundation to living a Genius Life. It can either feed or fight lethargy, malaise, and your predilection for disease.

#2

The most effective way to lose weight is to avoid processed foods, which are typically loaded with sugar, fat, and salt. These are the foods that make eating them difficult, and they are difficult to eat in moderation.

#3

Hyperpalatable junk foods are extremely easy to overconsume, and they also influence your daily energy expenditure because the digestion of food burns calories. They make it extremely easy to overeat.

#4

The human diet has changed dramatically since the advent of agriculture. We overconsume sugar to the tune of sixty-six pounds per person, per year. The only sweet food available to a forager would be ripe fruit, and these fruits would only taste half as sweet as they do today.

#5

Insulin is the hormone that helps transport sugar from the blood into the cells of the liver and muscle, where it is used as energy. Insulin is released when we eat something that contains sugar, and it helps bring our blood sugar back down to normal levels. But today, our insulin spikes are frequently stacked one on top of another because of the grain-based sandwiches, wraps, and snacks we are bingeing on around the clock.

#6

Elevated insulin also means that your ability to burn fat is blocked. Many tissues in your body would love to use fat for fuel if only they were given the chance. Today, our ability to burn fat has been hijacked by the constant presence of cheap, easily digestible carbohydrates in our diets.

#7

Ketones are able to increase the expression of other powerful compounds like BDNF, or brain-derived neurotrophic factor. This Miracle-Gro protein has antiaging properties that help to promote the growth of new cells in the brain’s vulnerable memory center, the hippocampus.

#8

It is important to strike a balance between being in a fed state and being in a ketogenic state. To