Max Lugavere

And, you know, I mean, I was raised in a household that valued curiosity, I think.

You know, we have, we've,

I come from a very, in many ways, privileged family.

So I was like, how is this happening to us?

Yeah.

um it was uh i think it was an entitlement a feeling of entitlement to answers um i didn't feel at any point that my non-academic training that the fact that i wasn't a medical doctor was a barrier to me understanding all that i could about what she had and you know if there were if there was anything else out there that could be done to help her from a you know from a non-pharmacologic

standpoint.

I'm a millennial, so I'm a child of the internet.

And so I immediately went to the best sources that I could find to try to find answers.

And I've always been incredibly curious.

I think that's part of what led to my success as a journalist.

And I

And really early on, I think, and especially in those moments of deep, dark despair, I intuitively, I would routinely take inventory of my skills and my abilities.

I knew that I wasn't...

I knew that I wasn't a medical doctor and that I wasn't a PhD in nutrition or anything like that.

But I thought to myself, well, I can that doesn't mean that I can't be just as rigorous in my research.

That doesn't mean that, you know, in fact, at the time, this is like pre the ubiquity of social media.

This is like pre wellness world, pre like having access the way we do today with experts on social media.

You know, all that was really available to to the inquisitive scientific world.

amateur mind was like, you know, maybe TED Talks and books.