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  • Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
  • By: Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal
  • Narrated by: Max Lugavere
  • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (208 ratings)

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By: Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal
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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 best sellers 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. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, this supplemental material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2018 Max Lugavere (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers

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Excellent. Genuinely great and actionable book!

Really enjoyed the read, the structure, and very close to heart for me. Top Shelf.

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Nicely Done

It’s a lifetime journey trying to maximise health and life span.. Thank you Max, Paul and team for your efforts in bringing this together 👍

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highly recommend

Great informantive book on nutrition and how it interacts with your body. With some humour thrown in.

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Changed my life, real information

I am thankful to finally have a source of information that gives clear guidelines to a healthy body and mind. I enjoyed the book and have used it as a referee point multiple times over the last months. i am a chef and always struggle to follow what we should eat and what we should not eat. This book has cleared up all the false information collected over a life time of working in kitchens. great book.

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the most insightful book I have listened to

this book was one of the most educational and insightful books on health that I have ever come across. I have started to implement a lot of the advice contained in this book

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life changing

This book was just an overall life changer. being a healthy person already, this book opened up my eyes even more to different aspects of my life. Would definitely recommend this book.

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fascinating and insightful

a very thoroughly researched and well put together book. have incredible insight into so many of the bodies systems and the effects of food. a little scary to read as a grain farmer... but valuable as a father of a child with bowel diseases and coeliac. will inform my diet in the future for sure.

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A wealth of info

Admittedly I had to replay several sections several times, and will replay the lot again soon, but very impressed with the informative explanations

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This book will change your life

A must read.
Research based and promotes critical thinking, helps make sense of the sometimes conflicting and overwhelming nutritional knowledge out there.

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Did you know?

You may already know some of or possibly a lot of what the authors have put together in this exceptional book. I personally encourage everyone to enjoy this life promoting book in all facets. Imagine if we all just knew what some of this truth is then we'd be all on a different planet. Healthier, happy & alive n well.

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