Genius Foods

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

De: Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal

Narrado por: Max Lugavere

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.

excellent

I loved this book. It was everything I already knew, and things i did not know, consciously laid out for me. I enjoyed this audible, but honestly wish I bought the kindle or book version. So many notes to take and the pdf. included did not contain all that I needed to write down. i had to clip so many sections and take a bunch of notes. I highly recommend this book but if you are like me and want to refer back to things, get a non-audible version or buy both. I wish the author would have included highlighted notes from each chapter in the pdf.

Way beyond expectations!!

Non-stop information!! No stories here!! be ready to be overwhelmed with excellent information!
Not a quick read!! Loaded! I'm going to have to relisten with a note book...too much, wayyy to much to retain!!

worth the listen

very insightful. plenty of wonderful suggestions and presented in a way that is fairly easy to grasp.

Genius Foods

I have read a lot of health books in my life but this one for me was GENIUS! Max truly did his research and the knowledge that he shared was intense but easy for me to wrap my head around. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Thank you Max for putting in all the hard work and research and mostly for sharing your knowledge. 😊

Spot on in every dimension.

The gut health chapter is a gem and it's not even marketed as a gut health book
Explained the microbiome to a point where it's easy to understand but goes deep. Will be buying the hard copy and highlighting it up. Will certainly be a reference for years to come.

Much needed information - that works.

I’ve been both validated and enriched. I’ve lost 30 pounds in 6-months eating the way this book describes however this book is much more informative than what I had to go on previous to reading it. (Yes, I have a hard copy too). The one thing that pains me is the exercise sections - not only of this book but of virtually all the nutrition and diet guides. I am 61 years old. I’ve had one shoulder surgery and need two more, one for each shoulder. I have compromised vertebrae in my lower spine. The vigorous exercise suggestions out there never seem to account for people in my shape. I am left to work it out on my own. I am a shift worker. Rotating 12-hours shifts. There is no such thing as routine but these books always presume everyone has a 9-5 or even just have free time to fashion their whole life around diet and exercise. At any rate, I believe that anyone who follows the logic, facts, and informative guidelines of this book will benefit tremendously. Finally, someone has put all the pieces that have been bouncing around out there together in one book. Additionally, Max had enriched and added to the information in a very astute manner. That’s why I bought the hard cover after listening to the audio version. This book deserves to be in hardcover. It will continue to be a vital reference for me as I transform my lifestyle with regard to diet.

I do strongly disagree that modern man is the result of millions and millions of mistakes over millions years. We are the product of a creator. I challenge any one to reproduce millions of mistakes that add up to a system as complicated as the human body and brain. I challenge any one to reproduce millions of mistakes (mutations) that add up to anything that even resembles order. Evolution, in this regard, is ridiculous. I’m not sure how smart people can fall for this fairytale.

Great summary of the science of nutrition for brain health

There is a lot of specific information to support the why of proper nutrition. I may not recall all the scientific details but I know that there are many great reasons to make better choices!
I listened to this book to remind me of why I’m making changes in the new year. Very effective.

I liked it

Some new and some old things I already knew. Great specific meal tips and recipes as well as science and facts.

Introduce to some, reintroduce to others

Came across recommendation for this book in a newsletter I get on well-researched books and after I read two other books on similar topics, both well-researched also. The book does a great job of mixing "nerd stuff" with lay explanations. Witty at time. Important info throughout. Author/narrator does a great job.

Love it

It was amazing love it and love his voice. Is a bit dense took me a while but love it