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Max Lugavere

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

They're one of nature's multivitamins.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

They're a cognitive multivitamin.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

An egg yolk literally contains everything that nature has deemed important to grow a brain.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

So there's now evidence linking a specific nutrient in egg yolks called choline to better long-term brain health.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Well, if you have an egg allergy, hope is not lost.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

You can still get choline from red meat.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Whoa, that's so interesting.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

That's amazing.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Yeah, I didn't know that.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Duck eggs are awesome.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Yeah, I've had them, you know, a handful of times.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Do they?

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Huh.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Yeah, there was a study that found it was an observational study, you know, so make of that what you will.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Correlation isn't causation.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Lots of limitations in nutrition, you know, epidemiology.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

But it found that people who consume eggs about, you know, all it took was one egg a week to slash dementia risk by 50%, which was crazy to see.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

And, you know, again, like...

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Correlation doesn't equal causation, but mechanistically, like egg yolks do contain a lot of nutrients that are beneficial to brain health.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Prevent Alzheimer’s & Dementia Before It Starts | Max Lugavere

Carotenoids, choline, which I mentioned, vitamin B12.