About the Authors
MAX LUGAVERE is a filmmaker, TV personality, and
health and science journalist. He is the director of the film
Bread Head, the first-ever documentary about dementia
prevention through diet and lifestyle. Lugavere has
contributed to Medscape, Vice, Fast Company, and the
Daily Beast and has been featured on NBC Nightly News,
The Dr. O Show, and The Doctors and in the Wall Street
Journal. He is a sought-after speaker, invited to lecture at
esteemed academic institutions such as the New York
Academy of Sciences and Weill Cornell Medicine, and he
has given keynotes at such events as the Biohacker Summit
in Stockholm, Sweden. From 2005 to 2011, Lugavere was a
journalist for Al Gore’s Current TV. He lives in New York
City and Los Angeles.
PAUL GREWAL, MD, is an internal medicine physician
and speaker who focuses on diet and lifestyle strategies for
weight loss, metabolic health, and longevity. Having lost
and kept off nearly one hundred pounds himself, he helps
others find a sustainable, holistic, and enjoyable path to
health, his greatest pride and passion. He earned a bachelor
of arts in cellular and molecular neuroscience from Johns
Hopkins University, studied medicine at Rutgers Medical
School, and completed his residency at North Shore-Long
Island Jewish Hospital. He is the founder of MyMD Medical
Group, a private practice in New York City, and serves as a
medical adviser to financial firms and health-care start-ups