254: Optimizing Your Genius Eating Environment with Max Lugavere

We're told over and over again by certain people in the online nutrition space that eating lots of protein isn't good for us; it's bad for our kidneys, which is something that has been thoroughly debunked in the scientific literature ... For people with healthy kidneys, you can basically eat all the protein that you want.

There have been studies that show that we tend to eat more when we eat our food on bigger plates versus smaller plates. Portion control is super important ... We think that we're operating under the guise of free will, but there are all these external forces that dictate how much we eat.

There have been correlational studies that show that the wider our waists, the smaller our total brain volume.

Two-thirds of adults in this country are either overweight or obese. And we are on trend by the year 2030 to have half of the adult population obese.

Salmon is rich in DHA fat and a potent marine carotenoid called astaxanthin, which is one of the most powerful protectors of the fatty structure that we know and love and refer to as the brain.

I think that that's rule number one is to cook at home more ... The more that we can cook at home, the better.

What you eat influences how much you eat.

60% of the calories that adults consume come from what are called ultra-processed foods.