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How to Achieve Optimal Brain Health
Advice from the bestselling author of ‘Genius Foods’
The issue of brain health is personal for Max Lugavere.
Without any prior family history of neurological disease, Max’s mother suddenly started showing symptoms of dementia at just 58 years old.
Max’s mother had always been a high-performer — as a mom to her three young boys and as a business entrepreneur.
“It was a shock to the family, and it was something we faced with disbelief, because this was the first time any kind of mental cognitive challenge reared its head in my family lineage,” Max told me when we chatted by phone last week.
After the symptoms appeared, Max then accompanied his mother from doctor visit to doctor visit, where she was put through a battery of tests that did not yield conclusive answers or treatment plans.
Eventually she was diagnosed with an official neurodegenerative condition and prescribed drugs for both Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease.
But at that point, Max had become disillusioned with how the medical system was prepared to treat a complex condition such as dementia. He was not satisfied just to have his mother take these “biochemical band-aids,” and so he set out on his own to see if there was a…
