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    Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
    Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
    Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
    Audiobook9 hours

    Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life

    Written by Max Lugavere and Paul Grewal

    Narrated by Max Lugavere

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    About this audiobook

    Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat, change the way you think about how your brain ages, and achieve optimal brain performance with this powerful new guide from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere.

    After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere put his successful media career on hold to learn everything he could about the workings of the human brain and his mother’s condition. For the better half of a decade, he consumed the most up-to-date scientific research, talked to dozens of scientists and clinicians around the world, and visited the country’s very best neurology departments.

    Now, in Genius Foods, Lugavere uncovers the stunning link between our dietary and lifestyle choices and our brain health, revealing how the foods you eat directly affect your ability to focus, learn, remember, create, analyze new ideas, and maintain a healthy, balanced mood. He presents ground-breaking science and distills the latest research, including:

    • How food is like software for our endlessly capable minds;
    • How select nutrients can actually boost working memory and processing speed;
    • How slowing down the cognitive aging process is just as much about the foods you omit from your diet as the superfoods that you consume;
    • And how easy it is to modulate the quality of your thoughts and mood by food.

    In the vein of groundbreaking bestsellers such as David Perlmutter’s Grain Brain, Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Body, and Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof Diet, Genius Foods presents a comprehensive, practical roadmap to optimizing the brain’s health and performance today—and decades into the future.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9780062853561
    Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
    Author

    Max Lugavere

    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, among others, and is a regularly appearing “core expert” on The Dr. Oz Show. 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 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.

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    • 3/5
      I really enjoy the book so far but the supplemental PDF is missing unfortunately :(

      4 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      the book is awedomr, buy I hate the pdf it's not included. which it sucks

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I recommend this book to everyone. Definitely reading it again.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I listened and then bought the book
      Absolutely amazing
      Try max potcast . It's highly informative

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Brilliant !! One of the best I’ve read so far

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Pretty good—and will be helpful for most everyone. Even if you don’t apply all the steps.

      I found books, such as Brain Food, from scientists and researchers in the area less hyperbolic. And more grounded. That said, a lot of this is fair and reflects the research.

      As a scientist I was a bit worried about the over extrapolations. But they are relatively balanced and condition things often. Which is a plus.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great information, this book is definitely a must read. I can't wait to get a physical copy.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is great reading especially for families who have the Alzheimer’s genes. The workout suggestions as well as the decluttering of the pantry is helpful. Highly recommended!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Absolutely love the book learn so much definitely a must read

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      6 stars if possible. Very well written and documented. Applied with practical examples. Emphatic and nice read. Highly recommended to a healthy human sistem. Thanks

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    • 4/5
      This book reminded me a lot of “How not to die”, which I would recommend reading. They could compliment each other

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Detailed, and backed up with tons of hard scientific evidence. A great book if your looking for not only the latest info on nutrition but also great as a diet guide as well.

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    • 5/5
      This book makes total sense. I wish I had found it 10 years ago the explanations of the symptoms, the proteins, the vitamins, and how it relates to what specific food you can talk to me about what is a carbohydrate what is the protein but if you don’t tell me, which food has the best concentration of or less concentration of, you speaking gibberish the author breaks it down very nicely
    • 5/5
      Amazing! Found very motivating and easy to understand the concepts explained! Would definitely suggest it if you are looking to better yourself or need some guidance.
    • 5/5
      Max has a gift relaying information. His book is an absolute MUST read. As an educator, I whole heartedly believe this should be incorporated into Health/Physical Education curriculum. This book equips you with the knowledge you need to make healthy and informed decisions and continue to question and research health. Max Lugavere is a gem! His podcast is also excellent!
    • 5/5
      Max give you a every day normal people can understand definition about diet for your brain. He gives you many tools you can use right now to improve your brain function. Love the book, and now I’m eating more dark chocolate!
    • 1/5
      pretentious fuck who thinks his little bit of research should be gospel.