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    Beyond Coffee: A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms
    Beyond Coffee: A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms
    Beyond Coffee: A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms
    Audiobook2 hours

    Beyond Coffee: A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms

    Written by James Beshara, Dan Engle MD and Katherine Haynes MPAS, PA-C

    Narrated by Brett Barry

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    About this audiobook

    When it comes to productivity, there aren't many things we do today that we did 200 years ago. We send emails instead of post, drive cars instead of horse-drawn carriages, and look up stuff on our phones instead of traveling a hundred miles to the nearest library.

    However, when it comes to our morning routines, 80 percent of the world consumes caffeine each day to wake them up and give them a boost for their daily tasks. Whether it's black tea or coffee, most of us consume the same ingredients we consumed 200 years ago without realizing two important facts. First, coffee beans and tea leaves are not the only sources of energy that nature provides us. Second, productivity is more than just wakefulness. It's energy, focus, creativity, decreased stress, and improved sleep, among other things.

    What can nature, science, and global access to different ingredients tell us about optimal productivity? And which ingredients are scientifically proven to be effective and safe? Backed by over 240 scientific studies, Beyond Coffee is a simple guide that answers these questions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribd Editions
    Release dateJun 30, 2020
    ISBN9781094406220
    Beyond Coffee: A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms
    Author

    James Beshara

    James Beshara is a startup founder, advisor, investor, and writer based in San Francisco, California. He has started multiple companies, selling one (Tilt, acquired by Airbnb), and has invested in a number of multibillion-dollar startups. His career has led to (and been a product of) his passion around efficiency, stress management, and productivity. When he was diagnosed with a heart condition in 2013, his doctor introduced him to several compounds as caffeine alternatives. Like many of us, he was surprised by just how much science backs up the cognitive and productivity benefits of nootropics—as opposed to just drinking yet another cup of coffee, as he was accustomed to doing. He has been researching the supplemental world of nootropics for over six years, and what started as a simple blog post for friends has evolved into this comprehensive book. You can follow James on Twitter @jamesbeshara.

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    • 5/5
      Great information provided in a straight forward conclusive way that even the most unfamiliar can understand
    • 5/5
      Very knowledgeable reader. I was happy to find such decent content as noo tropics books are sparse. Just wished this book was longer.
    • 3/5
      When I saw nootropics on the front, I thought it would be an exciting information listen, but it turned out to be more of a routine description of a list of regular substances. Probably would have been better as a book to get through it faster rather than an audiobook

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This just wasn't my kind of book. Well I appreciate all the thought, care and research that went into this and think that at 3.0x speed it was still a very dry read. Deffinitly something I would have found more interesting as a physical book where I would have been able to flip though at my leisure and find the information on specific things that interested me. Overall it was okay. There was a lot of information all coming in all at once.

      1 person found this helpful