Hello, everybody. Today, I'm talking with Max Lugavere, who flew in from LA to Washington, DC, to have this conversation with me. He's a journalist who's become quite a well-known scientific researcher and popularizer, but also a creative investigator in his own right. trilogy of books, the genius trilogy, one on foods, one on life, and one a recipe book on the kitchen, and is also the producer of a documentary that'll be released at the end of June 2024 called Little Empty Boxes. All of that was motivated by his mother's experience with a form of dementia known as, that involves the degeneration of these neurological tissues known as Lewy bodies. It's not Alzheimer's or frontal temporal dementia. It's another form of dementia. And he was very shocked by his mother's illness, which she developed when she was in her late 50s, and also by the dearth of effective treatment that was available to her, and ended up obsessively concentrating on research into the dementias in general, concluding, as have many people in the last decade, that the dementia spectrum of illnesses, and that includes Parkinson's, by the way, might well be preventable with interventions that are early enough in life and that many of those interventions might be dietary in nature. And we discuss why that is and talk about the carnivore diet as well as a potential diagnostic investigative tool for the analysis of complex disease in general. And, well, I suppose in some ways celebrate the possibility that dietary modulation might prove to be the treatment of choice on the prevention side for these terrible degenerative neurological diseases. So join us for that. So I'm interested in diet, I suppose, despite myself, I would say, because it's not my natural domain of interest. I'm more interested in psychological matters, let's say, than physical or physiological matters. I know they overlap, but my attention doesn't naturally gravitate that way. But I have definitely learned that many of the things that I would have been tempted to assume were psychological aren't. I mean, I've known for a long time, for example, that endogenous depression, the schizophrenic disorders and manic depression, I never thought of those as psychological disorders. I thought, no, those people are sick. We just don't know what's wrong with them. So I spoke with Chris Palmer in some detail on my podcast, and I just met him again in Boston. He's got a couple of research projects finishing up. He's got 15 on the go looking at treatment of those disorders with diet, and the first three have been spectacularly successful. So diet, right?