AMP #249 Get Your Health Right with Max Lugavere

Sleep is the one lever that will affect the broadest number of factors.

You’re going to get the most bang for your buck if you do two things: prioritize protein and cut out ultra-processed foods. That’s a recipe for satiety.

Certain plant compounds, such polyphenols and sulforaphane, both high in berries and cruciferous vegetables, stimulate the body’s production of glutathione.

When you're underslept, you tend to crave more carbs and fat—more junk foods. In fact, you eat, on average, ~400 more calories on a day that your underslept.

The sun has medicinal value, and few of us get enough of it.

What you put on your body, you put in your body.

On one night of poor sleep, you have ~30% higher levels of amyloid beta in your cerebrospinal fluid the next day.

Sulforaphane increases the excretion of harmful carcinogens like benzyne and acrolein.

The average baby is exposed to 287 industrial chemicals in utero.

We're addicted to mouth pleasures like we're addicted to genital pleasures.

Researchers speculate that air pollution might be responsible for 20% of Alzheimer's disease cases—if not more.

UVA rays from the sun increase nitric oxide in the body—this opens capillaries, boosts blood flow, and lowers blood pressure.

Bright light exposure at the wrong time of day can act like a carcinogen.

People in the fitness world know that protein is a valuable macronutrient, but it isn't something the population at large is aware of.

There's literally no safe level of artificially-created, man-made trans fat consumption.