Max Lugavere

Next time you come over, I'm going to have a baked potato ready for you.

That's why it sounds like a perfect meal to me.

Yeah.

It's just hard to find like quick access sources of carbs that aren't also loaded with added fats.

You know what I'm saying?

Like a baked potato is pure starch.

I could have made some rice for you.

Give me a heads up next time.

Well, actually, it makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint that it would be more difficult to build and maintain muscle because muscle is metabolically expensive.

I mean, you've talked about this many times that muscle burns calories, not a huge amount of additional calories, but it does burn extra calories just sitting on your frame.

And back prior to food security being something that we as a –

species were able to secure for ourselves, you know, that was a risky proposition because it's, you know, muscle is, um, yeah, it's, it's, it's expensive to maintain.

I think, yeah, probably, yeah.

Yeah.

No, I mean, your observations are completely consistent with the literature that I've seen linking frailty to increased risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Even going to dietary food questionnaires, higher levels of protein seem to be, and animal protein actually specifically seem to be linked to reduced shrinkage of the hippocampus, a slowing of the atrophy rate of the hippocampus.

That was a recent study that came out.

There's all kinds of data now, you know, painting a fairly clear picture for us that, you know, everything that you're saying checks out from the standpoint of aging well, especially with with regards to the brain.

So.

Yeah.