Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging

By: Ben Greenfield

Narrated by: James Newcomb

Length: 41 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's Summary

What if the ability to look, feel, and perform at peak capacity wasn’t the stuff of lore but instead was within easy reach?

Sure, some of us find ways to hit peak performance in one area or another - there are professional poker players, computer programmers, and race car drivers hunched over card games, keyboards, and steering wheels with optimized minds; UFC and NFL gladiators fighting for glory on television with optimized bodies; and monks and meditators roaming the planet with optimized spirits.

But in a perfect world, you would be able to have it all: Complete optimization of mind, body, and spirit.

In Boundless, the New York Times best-selling author of Beyond Training and health and fitness leader Ben Greenfield offers a first-of-its-kind blueprint for total human optimization.

To catapult you down the path of maximizing cognition, mental clarity, and IQ, you will discover:

• How to rewire your skull’s supercomputer (and 9 ways to fix your neurotransmitters)
• The 12 best ways to heal a leaky brain
• 8 proven methods to banish stress and kiss high cortisol goodbye
• 10 foods that break your brain, and how to eat yourself smart
• How to safely utilize nootropics and smart drugs, along with 8 of the best brain-boosting supplement stacks and psychedelics
• The top nutrient for brain health that you probably aren’t getting enough of
• 6 ways to upgrade your brain using biohacking gear, games, and tools
• How to exercise the cells of your nervous system using technology and modern science
• Easy ways to train your brain for power, speed, and longevity
• The ultimate guide to optimizing your sleep, maximizing mental recovery, and stopping jet lag

To ensure that you look good naked and live a long time, you will learn:

• 6 ways to get quick, powerful muscles (and why bigger muscles aren’t better)
• How to burn fat fast without destroying your body
• The fitness secrets of 6 of the fittest old people on the planet
• The best training program for maximizing muscle gain and fat loss at the same time
• One simple tactic for staying lean year-round with minimal effort
• A step-by-step system for figuring out exactly which foods to eat
• 14 ways to build an unstoppable immune system
• Little-known tactics, tips, and tricks for recovering from workouts with lightning speed
• The best tools for biohacking your body at home and on the road
• The 11 best blood tests for maximizing health and longevity
• How to eat, train, and live for optimal symmetry and beauty (&andhow to raise kids with superhuman bodies and brains)

And to help you live a fulfilling and happy life, you will learn:

• 12 techniques to heal your body using your own internal pharmacy
• What the single most powerful emotion is and how to tap into it every day
• 4 of the best ways to heal your body and spirit using sounds and vibrations
• 6 ways to enhance your life and longevity with love, friendships, and lasting relationships
• How to biohack the bedroom for better sex and longer orgasms, and the top libido-enhancing herbs, supplements, and strategies
• The perfect morning, afternoon, and evening routines for enhancing sleep, productivity, and overall happiness
• 28 ways to combine ancestral wisdom and modern science to enhance longevity, including the best foods, herbs, supplements, injections, medical treatments, biohacks, fasting strategies, and much more
• The 4 hidden variables that can make or break your mind, body, and spirit
• How to use the power of light to optimize your body and brain
• The exercise that will change your life forever (and how to reverse-engineer your perfect day)

Boundless guides you every step of the way to becoming an expert in what makes your brain tick, your body work, and your spirit happy.

You can listen to any chapter and discover research-proven, trench-tested techniques to build muscle, burn fat, live longer, have mind-blowing sex, raise robust children, and much, much more!

©2020 Ben Greenfield (P)2020 Ben Greenfield, LLC

voice is dull

Very dull naration. This would be much much better if Ben Greenfield read it himslf

Great material, poor narration

The material is very good and well laid out. On the other hand, the narration is horrible. Mono-tonous /hypnotic voice and many mistakes in pronunciation of medical terms. For a book like this the narrator should have been provided a list of terms that needed to be pronounced correctly. I can accept a few mispronunciations but they are all the way through the book; has become a distraction from the material. Agree with others that it would be better if Ben Greenfield read it. I will likely return it and purchase the hard copy as a reference book.

The narrator is the worst!

The book itself, so far(I'm 6 hours in), is very informative. I don't think I would have gotten through it in paper form, as it is very technical.

The narration, however, is horrible, and making it increasinglydifficult to get through. I have to give credit to the narrator; this is a 40 hour book. But I have never listened to an audio book that was so poorly edited. The audio book is riddled with gaps, repeating, even throat clearing, gasping for breath, and gibberish noises by the narrator. In addition, trying to follow along is difficult, because the narrator mispronounces soooo many words. It is extremely frustrating.

great book. sketchy pronunciations at best

A great book well organized perfect amount of detail and other resources. The only problem with listening to the book was the sketchy pronunciations and blatently incorrect pronunciations. For example "baggles" instead of bagels.

Someone should have "proof read" the recording for these obvious and innumerable flaws of pronunciation. Aside from that the narrator did a fine job.

l feel publisher owes me at least a kindle copy of the book so I can verify what the author intended.

Again I loved the book and have listened to it more than once. But, still wonder how so many prounciations ended up in a published work.

Distracted by terrible mispronounciation

Should have looked for a Reader who has some medical background or training. So far, the info is good but when so much of it isn’t articulated correctly, it’s super distracting. Can’t even say ‘glial’ cells or ‘epinephrine’ correctly.
Which also leads to the information sounding less credible. The words should be enunciated correctly else the material fall flat.
Sorry to the reader. You have a beautiful voice. Should have probably listened to how to pronounce all these medical/biology/physiology terms in advance.
Makes for a poor listening experience.

How do you access the content he references to?

Throughout the book he says you can get the notes/videos/ illustrations Ect. If you go to boundless book.com/18? Or I think that is what he says. But the books website requires the receipt number of the book you purchased in order to access the extra content. How do you access it if you purchased the audio book through audible????
Thank you

Narrator is horrible

I love the content of this book and I love Ben Greenfield’s work, but I can’t tell you how terrible this narrator is. He miss pronounces so many important medical words, and supplement words it’s irritating to listen to. Audible should have had been read his own book If he was willing to do it. Or at least have someone who knew the words so they didn’t mess them up so bad. I’m sorry narrator, you should’ve done your medical research and learned how to say those words!

Currently updated longevity research

Wow you won't be disappointed if you want to enhance your knowledge on possible natural methods for longevity research. I definitely recommend taking notes.

I really enjoyed the book.

biohacker's bible

single most impactful health book and I've read quite a few. Really dwarves Genius Life which is good info but is very basic level and is missing a lot to be honest. have only implemented a fraction (earthing, oil pulling, gravity boots, trampoline, dozens more..) of what's contained yet have experienced a personal evolution catapult or portal even. pronunciations absolutely fine could not imagine not listening to this comprehensive monstrosity. if you've read many others like me this will likely reintroduce many key concepts and familiar names but will also introduce many interesting new ideas, habits, practices to explore

Ben Greenfield does the research for you

Ben delivers a well thought out way to approach health. His intellectual curiosity allows him to explore the edge of heath and wellness. As a world class athlete transitions to the leading inversion journalist of our time, Ben presents knowledge to his readers with the care of a first day personal trainer and his well-financed suburban housewife.

Fitness "guru" pretends to be an expert

I am a personal trainer, I hold a degree in exercise science and a masters in clinical exercise science.

This book is nothing but a compendium of fitness flavoured bullshit, this guy seems to uncritically believe everything he's ever heard. My favourite quote from the parts I managed to listen to before I gave up under the strain of too much bullshit:

"If you want to activate the right hand side of your brain you should spend x minutes breathing through your right nostril."

For a start left-brain right-brain stuff has been thoroughly debunked, also any child pointing at an anatomical picture of the airways can see that it doesn't matter which nostril you breath through, the air is still going to your lungs. So couldn't possibly affect which side of the brain the oxygen gets to.

This is just one example of the absolute swill this idiot is peddling.

This book is £50+ on amazon in hardback, thank goodness I just used a single credit to get the audio book, because I would be FUCKING FURIOUS if I had spent that much!

snake oil salesman

Was really lookin forward to listening to this but turns out it was mostly packed with product placement and pseudo science.

Lots of waffle

Not meaning to dismiss the author’s work but there is a lot of filler within this audiobook . Chapter 15 negates anything that the author tries to put across by saying that all bodies get old , all athletes slow down etc ( we know that ) To me , after listening to that part of the chapter , it felt like what’s the point if we are going to wither and die regardless.
Chapter 17 about symmetry, why go on about your computer? It just came across like a promotional advert for the manufacturer.
All in all this book has good points but it also has parts that , to me , are un necessary.

biohacking bible for everyone! highly recommended

biohacking bible for everyone! highly recommended
it's a kind of book you want to come back to, being also in a digital form you can search for phrases easily.

Great content,poor narration!

Ben why have you not narrated your masterpiece? I know it takes time to narrate but would have made the book perfect and easily led to a Five Star review. Very surprising as you are such a good narrator who has an ability to bring content to life! Please narrate this book as the current narrator has mispronounced many words and frequently displays a lack of understanding of the content.

One very long advert

This book is packed with products and supplements for you to buy it's annoying. It does not go 5 minutes without giving you yet another thing to buy. Obviously the author is earning more from the adverts than the book.
Any useful information is obtained from youtube rather than research papers.
Annoyingly annoying!

Fantastic book

Highly recommend if you want to take your health and fitness to the next level.

Exceptional piece of work

A truly comprehensive and exceptional piece of work Ben. Worth the time investment and no doubt I'll be returning to this audio and the hardback for many years to come. Great narration James.

To complicated book for the “normal” person.

A good book but way to complicated methods and terms. Can recommend it if your hard core about life hacks.