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The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary
Written by Max Lugavere
Narrated by Max Lugavere
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About this audiobook
The author of the New York Times bestselling Genius Foods is back with a lifestyle program for resetting your brain and body to its ""factory settings,"" to help fight fatigue, anxiety, and depression and to optimize cognitive health for a longer and healthier life.
The human body was honed under unique conditions that no longer exist. The modern world has changed dramatically since our days as hunter gatherers, and it has caused widespread anxiety, stress, and disease, leaving our brains in disrepair. But science proves that the body and brain can be healed with the intervention of lifestyle protocols that help us to regain our cognitive birthright.
In the Genius Life, Lugavere expands the Genius Foods plan, which focused on nutrition and how it affects brain health, and expands it to encompass a full lifestyle protocol. We know now that the health of our brains—including our cognitive function and emotional wellness—depend on the health of our gut, endocrine, cardiac and nervous systems as there is a constant feedback loop between all systems. Drawing on globe-spanning research into circadian biology, psychology, dementia prevention, cognitive optimization, and exercise physiology, the Genius Life shows how to integrate healthy choices in all aspects of our daily routines: eating, exercising, sleeping, detoxing, and more to create a healthy foundation for optimal cognitive health and performance. Among Max’s groundbreaking findings, you will discover:
- A trick that gives you the equivalent of a ""marathon"" workout, in 10 minutes
- How to get the benefits of an extra 1-2 extra servings of veggies daily without eating them
- The hidden everyday chemicals that could be making you fat and sick
- How to boost melatonin levels by up to 60% for deeper sleep without supplements
The book features an achievable prescriptive 21-day plan for Genius Living that includes daily workouts, meal plans, and meal prep tips, and accompanied with helpful suggestions for healthy swaps and snacks.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An ABSOLUTE MUST read. Period. And read again. Max poured love, research backed and valuable information into this book.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I live this book. Useful and caring. I highly recommend.
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