Max Lugavere

Yeah, like, how could this have happened to me?

to us, a family that like, you know, is really small, but like, you know, we're pretty, we're a competent family in many ways.

We are a family that has access to healthy food and insight.

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.